You need to sign in or sign up before continuing.
Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book more than any other set the tone for most fiction I've enjoyed. It has it all science fiction, historical fiction, adorable teenage romance, social commentary, time travel... everything.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Fuck nazis
More playing with time in a Megamorphs book! – but then, isn’t that what usually happens, excepting the first Megamorphs book? It’s a good diversion from the main story, and one that can just as easily happened as not have happened. Though in this case, the big things that stick out are who ends up dying as part of Drode’s deal, how the rest who survive handle it, and that we finally get some solid opinions and narration out of Ax in regards to his view of humans in general. Oh, and that the Animorphs get a taste of what a full-out war battle is like. But for those things alone, and for random “Yay we get to experience and mess with history time!” (/sarcasm), this book would otherwise be rather forgettable. While reading it, I couldn’t help but feel like I was wasting time since I knew that considering Crayak (and likely, the Ellimist – he is Crayak’s counterweight, after all) were involved, plus the usage of the Time Matrix which could just as easily rewrite history as it could undo everything which was rewritten, that there would not likely be much that would come out of this in furthering the Animorphs vs Yeerks fight. Though I am very curious to know if Jake gets to keep his year 1415 warhorse morph…
Also, I think a better title for this book would be “The Time Matrix” because let’s face it, it’s the Time Matrix which drives this story more than “Elfangor’s Secret” that he hid the Time Matrix on Earth. And why does the summary on Goodreads have Visser Four's human name as Henry, and that he's eighteen years old? It's clear from the beginning that his human name is John Berryman, and at the end it is very clear that he is closer to 25 than 18.
And I was going to rewrite history?
Quotes and comments:
“Why wasn’t I even in the group?” Rachel demanded [of the Drode].
“You? A violence-prone sociopath like you, Rachel?” the Drode said with a happy laugh. “You were in a reeducation camp. This world has little room for bold, aggressive females. You were being taught your place.”
“Say what? My what?”
[…] “My place? Rachel muttered, not quite believing the word. No one teaches me my place.” – page 22-23 – Ouch, that is a painful (yet, I am reluctant to say, fairly accurate) description of Rachel.
I [Marco] couldn’t hear everything he said, but the basic idea was, “Men, we’re outnumbered, but we’re here for a good reason, which is that I want to be king of France, so let’s go kick some French butt and we’ll all be mighty pleased with ourselves on the off-chance that we actually survive.
Basically the same kind of heroic nonsense we Animorphs tell ourselves before we go into battle. – page 48-49 – So the Animorphs are following in tried-and-true footsteps before they dive into battle.
/Now where do you go, Yeerk?/ I [Rachel] asked him.
“Get away!” he cried in a shrill voice.
/I don’t think so,/ I said. /Your personal history ends right here, right now./
“No! Let me live and…and…the Time Matrix! You know you want it!”
/Where is it?/
“You’ll never find it without me!” he said.
I laughed. /It’s a ship. It’s only so big. I’ll find it./
“You can’t kill me, Andalite,” he begged.
/Oh, but I can,/ I said. /You killed someone I love./ -- page 124-125 – This is one of the few times we get Rachel voicing her relationship with Jake, as cousins. So often, their relationship is more often defined by their roles in the Animorphs, with Jake as leader and Rachel as his fighter.
I [Cassie] did it all on automatic. Rachel! I should have been there for her. I had run away, nursing my wounds. I’d abandoned Rachel when she needed me. – page 137 – So often it seems like the personal friendships between Animorphs are superseded by their relationships in battle-formation, so it’s good to see Cassie showing us how important her friendship with Rachel still is. This is also a bad wake-up call for Cassie, the “kill ‘em then cry over ‘em” member of the Animorphs. I think this is also what prompts her to take the final action with Visser Four’s host at the end of the story. She feels she failed the ones closest to her, the ones she cares the most about, and so she must avenge them, and make up for her shortfalls.
Page 138-139 – The university student with a Southern accent calls Cassie a word she won’t repeat and which felt like he had slapped her. I doubt I knew what this word was at 10 years old, but now I have a pretty good guess. Especially since the student is so obviously racist.
This small battle was all mine. I didn’t want any help.
“You don’t like black people, Mr. Davis?” I said pleasantly. “No problem. I can turn white. Watch me.” – page 140 – Admittedly my first thought was that she was going to morph into Rachel. But I much prefer what she actually morphs – a polar bear.
“Really,” Rachel said. “What are you doing? Stealing my act?”
“Rachel!” Tobias yelped. And a millisecond later he has spun around, grabbed her, and kissed her. – page 142 – YES! Finally, they kiss too! (And I’m glad Tobias hasn’t forgotten how kissing works, despite being a hawk…).
But I [Marco] wasn’t noticing much of that. I was noticing the fact that my brain was about to explode. Too much death and destruction and horror. As bad as my life had been at times as an Animorph, I’d seen real hard-core combat now and it was worse. The men who died in these battles had been like Jake: They’d had no chance.
Here, at Agincourt, back on the Delaware River, or on the beautiful, slow-moving sailing ship. No difference.
Men stood up in the face of the enemy and were massacred. Arrows found throats. Swords found vulnerable flesh. Cannons ripped away limbs. Bullets entered organs by neat, round holes and came out in a shredded mess. Men died never having the chance to resist, to fight, to run, to cry out, to prepare, to wonder.
One second they were scared and brave and alive. The next second they were dead.
Just like Jake.
Cassie and I had sworn to protect him. But there’d never even been a chance. – page 153-154 – This is some really frank observations by Marco, and lends proof to the understanding that he figures out a lot and does it a lot quicker than the others. It is also very frank in that he is voicing something that now most all of the Animorphs are realizing: War is a terrible thing. Good people die, and with no fanfare, no idea that death is coming for them. War is what the Animorphs are trying to avoid by following through on all the guerilla warfare that they undertake. This mass destruction, this senseless killing, is a part of what they are fighting to avoid. This, I think, is where Marco makes his own decision which will lead to him taking the Yeerk Visser Four’s death into his own hands.
One of which, somewhere up there, far, far away, was my own [planet].
I [Ax] had never wanted to be there more.
I thought I understood humans. I understood nothing.
They were mad! Lunatics. Evil, violent, destructive, hate-filled creatures.
/Ax-man! Are you hit?/
It was Tobias. I saw him, drifting, wings spread wide, above the smoke of battle.
/I am not injured,/ I said. /But I must tell you: I am profoundly tired of your people./
/I’m not exactly thrilled with them myself,/ Tobias said. – page 157 – This is what I’ve been looking for from Ax: for him to voice exactly what he thinks of humans in general. And his opinion is nicely tempered by Tobias agreeing with him – it show Ax that just because his fellow Animorphs are human, does not mean that they are any less “tired” of their people and the violence which is such an integral part of human history. One day, we can all aspire to be as peace-loving and mutually understanding as the Pemalites…
What did it all mean? What was I [Ax] missing? Surely there was a way to make sense of it all, to encapsulate all this mindless killing all this violence, all this fear in a package of reason, logic..
I was afraid. The realization surprised me. I was hiding beneath two dead bodies, spinning the wheels of my mind trying to make sense of things.
Thinking was so much easier than sliding out from beneath this grizzly protection and facing the murder all around me.
I was a coward!
No, this was not my war. My war was with the Yeerks. This was human killing human in some dark, distant past. Insanity! Lunacy!
Coward!
No! I had no chance. Everyone on that beach was dying. Everyone was going to die. Everyone! This wasn’t my beach. This wasn’t my war. Not my place to die.
Not my place to kill. As I had killed the Hessian officer. – page 161 – Ax is acknowledging that as much as he wants to keep himself separate from humans/human influence, that is also just not possible. He is as entangled with humans as they all are entangled with the Yeerks, and he cannot avoid it even though he might want to.
/Maybe if we get the Time Matrix…maybe we can do more than just put it all back together, you know?/ [Cassie said].
/What do you mean?/ [Tobias asked]
/I mean history is nothing but killing. Maybe we could change that./
/Let’s just go get Visser Four,/ Tobias said. /For Jake./
/For Jake,/ I [Cassie] said.
The words were out before I thought about them. For Jake. Revenge. Kill the killer. Avenge the wrong.
And I was going to rewrite history? – page 167 – A clashing of idealism and realism for Cassie. Who she was before all this Animorphs stuff, the old Cassie would want to try to fix history to avoid some of the killing if she could. But who she is now, knowing what she knows, having experienced what she has experienced – the new Cassie is harsher, and more likely to protect the ones closest to her over everyone else she could possible help. Not unlike the soldiers in a war: it is no longer about fighting for an ideal or a dream, but about protecting your fellow soldiers closest to you.
But of course, cattle don’t know what’s coming. Humans do. They saw the bodies of their fellow soldiers. They heard the explosions. They smelled the death. And they still came.
War is obscene, the worst thing humans do. But warriors, the individual men, are the very best of humanity. Not because they are willing to kill. But because they are willing to risk death, to sacrifice themselves for others. – page 181-- (Emphasis added) Possibly one of the very best lines in this whole book. It may be considered “preachy”, but there is no denying the truth in these sentences.
[Tobias, in Hork-Bajir morph, has spotted Adolf Hitler – who is a driver in this battle -- in this alternate timeline and is holding one of his blades to the man’s throat.
/You know who this is? You know what he is?/ [Tobias demanded]
/No. And neither do you! Look at him. He’s like some old corporal or something!/ [I/Cassie replied]
/He’s Hitler. He dies. End of story,/ Tobias said grimly.
Hitler was frozen with fear. Trembling with a Hork-Bajir blade pressed against his jugular.
/Tobias, it’s all different,/ I said. /Visser Four changed it. All of it. No one is where they should be, doing what they did in our reality. We don’t even know if these guys are the bad guys or the good guys in this reality./
/He’s still Hitler!/ Tobias said.
/Is he? I don’t know. Jake, in that other reality, the reality that comes from all this, was Jake still Jake? Was Marco still Marco?/
/You’ve got to be kidding! You’re going to compare Jake to this walking piece of scum?/
/He’s not evil for who he is, no one is. You can’t be evil for being someone. It’s what you do. And this guy’s just a driver!/
[…]
/Tobias, you can’t do this,/ I said. /You can’t execute someone for what he might have done or even what he might do./ -- page 185 – Another very philosophical debate. Are you evil for who you are, or for what you do? For what you might do? Does anyone have the right to execute another for what they have the potential to do?
John Berryman says his parents met in San Francisco in 1967 (page 199) – which could lend support to the theory that the Animorphs do live in California, and not the Carolinas. How many people do you think move from California to the Carolinas, anyways? And why have Ax use it, when any of the other Animorphs would be much more familiar with San Francisco 1967 than he would be, even though it is before their time?
“You died, Jake,” I [Cassie] said. “You died crossing the Delaware with Washington.”
I could see the spasm of shock on Jake’s face.
“Oh, my God,” he whispered. “Did…I mean, in the end, did we do it? Did we put it all back right? Did we make it right?”
I went to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
“No. We didn’t make it right. But we put it back, Jake. Leave it at that. We put it all back.” – page 207-208 – And sometimes, just being able to put things back is the best you can do. It’s not easy, but it’s all you can do.
Also, I think a better title for this book would be “The Time Matrix” because let’s face it, it’s the Time Matrix which drives this story more than “Elfangor’s Secret” that he hid the Time Matrix on Earth. And why does the summary on Goodreads have Visser Four's human name as Henry, and that he's eighteen years old? It's clear from the beginning that his human name is John Berryman, and at the end it is very clear that he is closer to 25 than 18.
And I was going to rewrite history?
Quotes and comments:
“Why wasn’t I even in the group?” Rachel demanded [of the Drode].
“You? A violence-prone sociopath like you, Rachel?” the Drode said with a happy laugh. “You were in a reeducation camp. This world has little room for bold, aggressive females. You were being taught your place.”
“Say what? My what?”
[…] “My place? Rachel muttered, not quite believing the word. No one teaches me my place.” – page 22-23 – Ouch, that is a painful (yet, I am reluctant to say, fairly accurate) description of Rachel.
I [Marco] couldn’t hear everything he said, but the basic idea was, “Men, we’re outnumbered, but we’re here for a good reason, which is that I want to be king of France, so let’s go kick some French butt and we’ll all be mighty pleased with ourselves on the off-chance that we actually survive.
Basically the same kind of heroic nonsense we Animorphs tell ourselves before we go into battle. – page 48-49 – So the Animorphs are following in tried-and-true footsteps before they dive into battle.
/Now where do you go, Yeerk?/ I [Rachel] asked him.
“Get away!” he cried in a shrill voice.
/I don’t think so,/ I said. /Your personal history ends right here, right now./
“No! Let me live and…and…the Time Matrix! You know you want it!”
/Where is it?/
“You’ll never find it without me!” he said.
I laughed. /It’s a ship. It’s only so big. I’ll find it./
“You can’t kill me, Andalite,” he begged.
/Oh, but I can,/ I said. /You killed someone I love./ -- page 124-125 – This is one of the few times we get Rachel voicing her relationship with Jake, as cousins. So often, their relationship is more often defined by their roles in the Animorphs, with Jake as leader and Rachel as his fighter.
I [Cassie] did it all on automatic. Rachel! I should have been there for her. I had run away, nursing my wounds. I’d abandoned Rachel when she needed me. – page 137 – So often it seems like the personal friendships between Animorphs are superseded by their relationships in battle-formation, so it’s good to see Cassie showing us how important her friendship with Rachel still is. This is also a bad wake-up call for Cassie, the “kill ‘em then cry over ‘em” member of the Animorphs. I think this is also what prompts her to take the final action with Visser Four’s host at the end of the story. She feels she failed the ones closest to her, the ones she cares the most about, and so she must avenge them, and make up for her shortfalls.
Page 138-139 – The university student with a Southern accent calls Cassie a word she won’t repeat and which felt like he had slapped her. I doubt I knew what this word was at 10 years old, but now I have a pretty good guess. Especially since the student is so obviously racist.
This small battle was all mine. I didn’t want any help.
“You don’t like black people, Mr. Davis?” I said pleasantly. “No problem. I can turn white. Watch me.” – page 140 – Admittedly my first thought was that she was going to morph into Rachel. But I much prefer what she actually morphs – a polar bear.
“Really,” Rachel said. “What are you doing? Stealing my act?”
“Rachel!” Tobias yelped. And a millisecond later he has spun around, grabbed her, and kissed her. – page 142 – YES! Finally, they kiss too! (And I’m glad Tobias hasn’t forgotten how kissing works, despite being a hawk…).
Spoiler
Hm, thinking someone is dead and them turning up alive seems to be really good incentive to prompt kisses in this series, doesn’t it?But I [Marco] wasn’t noticing much of that. I was noticing the fact that my brain was about to explode. Too much death and destruction and horror. As bad as my life had been at times as an Animorph, I’d seen real hard-core combat now and it was worse. The men who died in these battles had been like Jake: They’d had no chance.
Here, at Agincourt, back on the Delaware River, or on the beautiful, slow-moving sailing ship. No difference.
Men stood up in the face of the enemy and were massacred. Arrows found throats. Swords found vulnerable flesh. Cannons ripped away limbs. Bullets entered organs by neat, round holes and came out in a shredded mess. Men died never having the chance to resist, to fight, to run, to cry out, to prepare, to wonder.
One second they were scared and brave and alive. The next second they were dead.
Just like Jake.
Cassie and I had sworn to protect him. But there’d never even been a chance. – page 153-154 – This is some really frank observations by Marco, and lends proof to the understanding that he figures out a lot and does it a lot quicker than the others. It is also very frank in that he is voicing something that now most all of the Animorphs are realizing: War is a terrible thing. Good people die, and with no fanfare, no idea that death is coming for them. War is what the Animorphs are trying to avoid by following through on all the guerilla warfare that they undertake. This mass destruction, this senseless killing, is a part of what they are fighting to avoid. This, I think, is where Marco makes his own decision which will lead to him taking the Yeerk Visser Four’s death into his own hands.
One of which, somewhere up there, far, far away, was my own [planet].
I [Ax] had never wanted to be there more.
I thought I understood humans. I understood nothing.
They were mad! Lunatics. Evil, violent, destructive, hate-filled creatures.
/Ax-man! Are you hit?/
It was Tobias. I saw him, drifting, wings spread wide, above the smoke of battle.
/I am not injured,/ I said. /But I must tell you: I am profoundly tired of your people./
/I’m not exactly thrilled with them myself,/ Tobias said. – page 157 – This is what I’ve been looking for from Ax: for him to voice exactly what he thinks of humans in general. And his opinion is nicely tempered by Tobias agreeing with him – it show Ax that just because his fellow Animorphs are human, does not mean that they are any less “tired” of their people and the violence which is such an integral part of human history. One day, we can all aspire to be as peace-loving and mutually understanding as the Pemalites…
What did it all mean? What was I [Ax] missing? Surely there was a way to make sense of it all, to encapsulate all this mindless killing all this violence, all this fear in a package of reason, logic..
I was afraid. The realization surprised me. I was hiding beneath two dead bodies, spinning the wheels of my mind trying to make sense of things.
Thinking was so much easier than sliding out from beneath this grizzly protection and facing the murder all around me.
I was a coward!
No, this was not my war. My war was with the Yeerks. This was human killing human in some dark, distant past. Insanity! Lunacy!
Coward!
No! I had no chance. Everyone on that beach was dying. Everyone was going to die. Everyone! This wasn’t my beach. This wasn’t my war. Not my place to die.
Not my place to kill. As I had killed the Hessian officer. – page 161 – Ax is acknowledging that as much as he wants to keep himself separate from humans/human influence, that is also just not possible. He is as entangled with humans as they all are entangled with the Yeerks, and he cannot avoid it even though he might want to.
/Maybe if we get the Time Matrix…maybe we can do more than just put it all back together, you know?/ [Cassie said].
/What do you mean?/ [Tobias asked]
/I mean history is nothing but killing. Maybe we could change that./
/Let’s just go get Visser Four,/ Tobias said. /For Jake./
/For Jake,/ I [Cassie] said.
The words were out before I thought about them. For Jake. Revenge. Kill the killer. Avenge the wrong.
And I was going to rewrite history? – page 167 – A clashing of idealism and realism for Cassie. Who she was before all this Animorphs stuff, the old Cassie would want to try to fix history to avoid some of the killing if she could. But who she is now, knowing what she knows, having experienced what she has experienced – the new Cassie is harsher, and more likely to protect the ones closest to her over everyone else she could possible help. Not unlike the soldiers in a war: it is no longer about fighting for an ideal or a dream, but about protecting your fellow soldiers closest to you.
But of course, cattle don’t know what’s coming. Humans do. They saw the bodies of their fellow soldiers. They heard the explosions. They smelled the death. And they still came.
War is obscene, the worst thing humans do. But warriors, the individual men, are the very best of humanity. Not because they are willing to kill. But because they are willing to risk death, to sacrifice themselves for others. – page 181-- (Emphasis added) Possibly one of the very best lines in this whole book. It may be considered “preachy”, but there is no denying the truth in these sentences.
[Tobias, in Hork-Bajir morph, has spotted Adolf Hitler – who is a driver in this battle -- in this alternate timeline and is holding one of his blades to the man’s throat.
/You know who this is? You know what he is?/ [Tobias demanded]
/No. And neither do you! Look at him. He’s like some old corporal or something!/ [I/Cassie replied]
/He’s Hitler. He dies. End of story,/ Tobias said grimly.
Hitler was frozen with fear. Trembling with a Hork-Bajir blade pressed against his jugular.
/Tobias, it’s all different,/ I said. /Visser Four changed it. All of it. No one is where they should be, doing what they did in our reality. We don’t even know if these guys are the bad guys or the good guys in this reality./
/He’s still Hitler!/ Tobias said.
/Is he? I don’t know. Jake, in that other reality, the reality that comes from all this, was Jake still Jake? Was Marco still Marco?/
/You’ve got to be kidding! You’re going to compare Jake to this walking piece of scum?/
/He’s not evil for who he is, no one is. You can’t be evil for being someone. It’s what you do. And this guy’s just a driver!/
[…]
/Tobias, you can’t do this,/ I said. /You can’t execute someone for what he might have done or even what he might do./ -- page 185 – Another very philosophical debate. Are you evil for who you are, or for what you do? For what you might do? Does anyone have the right to execute another for what they have the potential to do?
John Berryman says his parents met in San Francisco in 1967 (page 199) – which could lend support to the theory that the Animorphs do live in California, and not the Carolinas. How many people do you think move from California to the Carolinas, anyways? And why have Ax use it, when any of the other Animorphs would be much more familiar with San Francisco 1967 than he would be, even though it is before their time?
“You died, Jake,” I [Cassie] said. “You died crossing the Delaware with Washington.”
I could see the spasm of shock on Jake’s face.
“Oh, my God,” he whispered. “Did…I mean, in the end, did we do it? Did we put it all back right? Did we make it right?”
I went to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
“No. We didn’t make it right. But we put it back, Jake. Leave it at that. We put it all back.” – page 207-208 – And sometimes, just being able to put things back is the best you can do. It’s not easy, but it’s all you can do.
adventurous
dark
funny
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
adventurous
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I listened to this one as an audiobook.
I loved that each POV had it's own narrator, but I didn't like all the voices. I enjoyed Jake and Rachel the most. I didn't like Marco or Cassie much.
So, Elfangor's Secret was a time machine which he hid on Earth poorly. The story had very little to do with Elfangor, aside from the framing/prologue.
This story is about jumping through time, trying and failing in every jump until the last, where the Animorphs get lucky, if I'm honest.
The Yeerk causing all the problems was "Visser Four," who I doubt we'll ever hear of again.
Cassie decides the best way to prevent V4 from getting the time matrix is to prevent his hosts parents from ever meeting.
So, the host is gone, but V4 still exists, and the time matrix still exists. Somehow this means V4 won't find the McGuffin... Ok. I guess? I mean, couldn't he just have a different host and still find it? I guess not?
This entire book was confusing, and silly, and ultimately meaningless. It's framed as "Cryak is going to let you fix the timeline, but Jake has to die." Which makes absolutely no sense, considering how much Cryak supposedly wants the Yeerks to win. Surely Cryak didn't really believe they'd just accept Jake's death when there was a fucking time machine involved? V4 wanted to make humans weaker, so the Yeerk invasion could proceed more easily. Doesn't that serve Cryak's ultimate design?
I don't know why this one got to be a "special" either. This could have just been a regular book. As far as I can tell, none of this was ground breaking, or even necessary to the overall plot.
2.5 out of 5 stars.
I loved that each POV had it's own narrator, but I didn't like all the voices. I enjoyed Jake and Rachel the most. I didn't like Marco or Cassie much.
So, Elfangor's Secret was a time machine which he hid on Earth poorly. The story had very little to do with Elfangor, aside from the framing/prologue.
This story is about jumping through time, trying and failing in every jump until the last, where the Animorphs get lucky, if I'm honest.
The Yeerk causing all the problems was "Visser Four," who I doubt we'll ever hear of again.
Cassie decides the best way to prevent V4 from getting the time matrix is to prevent his hosts parents from ever meeting.
So, the host is gone, but V4 still exists, and the time matrix still exists. Somehow this means V4 won't find the McGuffin... Ok. I guess? I mean, couldn't he just have a different host and still find it? I guess not?
This entire book was confusing, and silly, and ultimately meaningless. It's framed as "Cryak is going to let you fix the timeline, but Jake has to die." Which makes absolutely no sense, considering how much Cryak supposedly wants the Yeerks to win. Surely Cryak didn't really believe they'd just accept Jake's death when there was a fucking time machine involved? V4 wanted to make humans weaker, so the Yeerk invasion could proceed more easily. Doesn't that serve Cryak's ultimate design?
I don't know why this one got to be a "special" either. This could have just been a regular book. As far as I can tell, none of this was ground breaking, or even necessary to the overall plot.
2.5 out of 5 stars.
adventurous
dark
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated