The Wild Robot Escapes
The Wild Robot series, Book 2
Peter Brown
Little, Brown Books
Fiction, CH? Sci-Fi
**** (Good)
DESCRIPTION: A year ago, the helper robot Roz washed ashore on an uninhabited island and was accidentally activated by the animals. Following her programming and impulse to help others (which were never specified to be humans), she learned the beastly language, adopted the gosling Brightbill, and became the animals' friend and protector... until a recovery team tracked her down and returned her to the mainland.
Refurbished at the factory, Roz has been purchased by a widower and his two children to help with his struggling dairy farm. Even as Roz settles into life among the cows and the fields, she yearns to return to Brightbill and the island, but how can she hope to escape when her every move is electronically tracked, and every human and robot of the mainland will surely try to stop her?
REVIEW: This is a fun, sometimes touching follow-up on the first Wild Robot book, where Roz won over the island animals and raised young Brightbill. On the farm, Roz finds herself unexpectedly torn; the family needs help, and they aren't bad or cruel people (and neither are the cows, whom she quickly befriends with her animal language skills), but she is ultimately a wild robot at heart and knows her animal friends miss her as much as she misses them. Meanwhile, the story of the robot with the goose son has spread among the wildlife, first among the geese and then among other animals. This proves instrumental in helping Roz once she finally manages to make a run for it - but even with animal assistance, humans aren't about to let a potentially dangerous anomaly like Roz go without a fight. The story feels a little drawn out at times, and there's a subplot about a vengeful wolf that didn't sit right and felt a little half-written compared to the rest of the story, but overall this makes for a satisfyingly adventurous and heartfelt conclusion to the story of the wild robot and her son (and friends).
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