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kstericker's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
reflective
sad
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? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Violence, Xenophobia, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Slavery
Minor: Stalking
jessthanthree's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Violence, Grief, and War
Minor: Death
riahwamby's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
noecitos's review against another edition
challenging
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
4.5
chloeajohnsen's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
as exhausting as i often find cassie’s inability to see the forest for the trees, i like that in the end, she chose to stand by her stance even with the personal cost. this one was more morality than really any of them have been so far and i appreciated the break from the formulaic little-research-big-battle formula. i will say the beginning of the book made me unreasonably angry because cassie would rather in the beginning of this book say “fuck jake’s brother, marco’s mom, and every other person in the world. i don’t have to actually be a good person as long as i can still feel like one.” i’m glad the yeerk was the way she was and i actually feel horrible that she won’t ever experience sight and color again.
muffmacguff's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I read a lot of this series as it was being released (I fell off at some point and I’m excited to find where). That means I was in early middle school when this one came out.
My parents bonded over a love of Proust - my father recommended his work to my mother, who then read it in French. I mention this because they used to give me a hard time for reading Animorphs; they thought I should be reading more challenging and sophisticated work. I tried to explain to them that while Animorphs books were short and the protagonists were children, these were as challenging and sophisticated as anything else I’d read. They didn’t believe it, so finally I gave them this book - I remembered these twenty-plus years that it was book #19 - and asked them to please read this beautiful story.
This is, to me, the Animorphs at their very best. Some action but mainly a big complicated problem involving interspecies warfare, and the Animorphs all feeling differently about how to solve it. But beyond that, the Cassie books are just different. The Animorphs all suffer from their trauma in their own ways, but Cassie is the only one who is tormented by an insecurity about whether fighting is right at all. While Rachel has discovered that she is her best self when fighting (and that’s a hard thing for her to deal with), Cassie never gets more comfortable with killing aliens. Through her eyes, we see the toll this war takes on someone who reveres life. And in this book she splits with the Animorphs to try to make the world a little bit better without fighting.
My mom agreed the book was pretty good but also insisted I should read thicker books. My dad didn’t get around to reading it (and still feels bad about it - I forgive you!).
I don’t know which of the Animorphs I’d be most like in their shoes, but I agree so completely with Jake - you can’t build a better world after the fighting without people like Cassie.
Sobbed through this entire book.
My parents bonded over a love of Proust - my father recommended his work to my mother, who then read it in French. I mention this because they used to give me a hard time for reading Animorphs; they thought I should be reading more challenging and sophisticated work. I tried to explain to them that while Animorphs books were short and the protagonists were children, these were as challenging and sophisticated as anything else I’d read. They didn’t believe it, so finally I gave them this book - I remembered these twenty-plus years that it was book #19 - and asked them to please read this beautiful story.
This is, to me, the Animorphs at their very best. Some action but mainly a big complicated problem involving interspecies warfare, and the Animorphs all feeling differently about how to solve it. But beyond that, the Cassie books are just different. The Animorphs all suffer from their trauma in their own ways, but Cassie is the only one who is tormented by an insecurity about whether fighting is right at all. While Rachel has discovered that she is her best self when fighting (and that’s a hard thing for her to deal with), Cassie never gets more comfortable with killing aliens. Through her eyes, we see the toll this war takes on someone who reveres life. And in this book she splits with the Animorphs to try to make the world a little bit better without fighting.
My mom agreed the book was pretty good but also insisted I should read thicker books. My dad didn’t get around to reading it (and still feels bad about it - I forgive you!).
I don’t know which of the Animorphs I’d be most like in their shoes, but I agree so completely with Jake - you can’t build a better world after the fighting without people like Cassie.
Sobbed through this entire book.
carlasofiaferreira's review against another edition
5.0
Wow, this is truly Animorphs at its best. So much to love in this book that explores the fierce tenderness of Cassie, whose actions at times feel hopelessly invested in kindness and peace to a fault, and yet as Jake says (and I paraphrase), once the war is won, we better hope there are still Cassies. So many difficult conversations on the nature of evil and the dangers of the false binary of heroes v villains. Name a series that does a better job exploring humanity and morality without being pedantic. I can't and this book is that at its finest. A can't miss read that's compelling throughout and with a beautiful ending. One of the only books in the series that actually had me in literal tears at one point.
Also, a leopard on the loose?!?!
Also, a leopard on the loose?!?!
neonnikki's review against another edition
5.0
The series is about to take a turn and get a bit darker, so it's cool to meet a yeerk and get a look in on 'the bad guys'. Also, while Cassie isn't my fave, I understand her, and why she feels the way she does.
coolkid97's review against another edition
5.0
WOW. WOWOWOWOW!!!!! this is by far one of the best animorphs books so far. i read it in 3 hours and it made me cry at work 100/10!!!!!