pickThis book made me WHEEZE because I was laughing so hard - the yeerks have a major weakness and it‘s maple and ginger instant oatmeal. Jake had a monologue about oatmeal not playing a major role in famous historical battles and Rachel solved problems by going through walls in elephant morph and making it Visser Three‘s problem by throwing the oats into a yeerk pool and him in after it.
No notes.
“We can‘t back out now,” Marco said. “I‘ve 36 boxes of maple and ginger instant oatmeal at home, in easy open single serve pouches.”
Ahh yes, the well known Animorphs to hard core communist pipeline… come on in! the water is fine!
(Now if they‘d gone for Animorphs to vocal anti war activist pipeline, they might just be on to something)
pickngl Marco broke my heart in this one. His biggest heartbreak (his Mom‘s death) and closely guarded secret (she‘s actually alive and an unwilling human controller for a very high ranking Yeerk) previously only known by Jake - comes to light and Marco is left to deal with the consequences.
There‘s shark morphs and some lighted jail breaking of some parrots from a fast food chain - but this one was 💔😩
pick“I had won. I think it was the first time in my entire life that I‘d won any kind of athletic contest. Sure, I was a horse - but a victory is a victory.”
I love that every once in a while we get a book where the Animorphs get to be a little goofy, where the stakes are not quite so high… and in this one we had yeerk controllers in wild horses trying to discover what alien technology the airforce had locked up in TOP SECRET AREA, Zone 91.
pickThat pesky Ellimist is back! And “not interfering” in what could be interpreted as quite an interfering way…
This is a Tobias book and we *finally* see him offered something of a pathway back to being a real boy.
Really enjoyed getting to meet two Yerk free Hork-Bajir and how it challenged all of the Animorphs previous assumptions about them being violent (like, them eating bark and using their blades primarily as tools rather than weapons).
pickCRAZY work making me care about Elfangor - the andalite warrior prince who DIES DRAMATICALLY in book one after giving the “Animorphs” the power to morph AND for making it EVEN MORE TRAGIC in retrospect for the already most tragic of the Animorphs kids.
I‘m feeling totally normal and fine about it
🫨🫨🫨😭🫨🫨🫨
pickIn which Rachel makes a series of bad decisions starting with causing a fake distraction at the zoo so that she could rescue a small child who‘d fallen into the crocodile pit and ends with her completely losing control of her morphing anytime she feels strong emotions aka at the most inconvient times possible. Marco hits peak annoying boy several times (bless him 🤣).
pickI listened to this while taking a walk and it made me snort laugh more than once. It‘s a time travel adventure that starts with a somewhat delusional plan to steal a bug fighter to land it on the White House lawn to prove to the world that Yeerks exist but very quickly derails into a time travel adventure… when they get into a fight with Visser Three‘s blade ship and tear a rip in the space time continuum.
pickThe Animorphs just keep finding themselves in situations! This time it‘s because Marco wants to sneak into an outdoor concert in dog morph and spots an old school friend who curiously doesn‘t smell human… which COULD MEAN NOTHING but obviously doesn‘t because this is an Animorphs book!
Love all the ethical dilemmas that are getting woven in to these stories - I just know that there is going to be a ripple effect of consequences down the line.
