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The Beginning by K.A. Applegate

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anaaa13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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

woff, that was a lot.

After 4 years I finally finished reading animorphs for the first time, and I know it won’t be the last. these books were such a rollercoaster, I could have never imagined how incredible, complicated and fantastic they turned out to be. I am so grateful for the companionship and safe place these books offered me, as well for all the times they invited me to think and analyse and shaped the way I view a lot of things.

I think the ending it’s realistic and makes a lot of sense, even if that makes me want to cry and stay in bed for the next year. If it had ended in a lighter, happier, not so devastating way, the whole series would’ve lost bits of it’s meaning and spark.

I had known for ages about Rachel’s death, still, when the time showed up to read her lasts moments, I was a mess, I’m talking ugly crying, I’m talking screaming into my pillow. May her beautiful brave soul rest in peace.

Now it’s time for me to spam all my friends with animorphs till they read the series.

quotes:

“I love you,” I said to the screen. And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning. I tried to smile. For him.

“Animorph!” After all these years of the Yeerks thinking we were Andalites, always yelling “Andalite!” whenever they saw a morph. It was strangely gratifying that at last they knew who we were.

My life was divided into three parts: before, during, and after the war. And the middle section was so overwhelming, so big, so intense, it made the other two portions seem dim and dark and dull.

“Hi, Jake. Is something the matter?” He winced, a rueful acknowledgment that only some problem would have brought him to see me.

Its war and people die in war. Not only the people in the background, not only the bad guys but people who were the center of someone’s life. Like Rachel was to Tobias.

what now??

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jessthanthree's review against another edition

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adventurous dark sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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