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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-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
Reviewing as I reread a childhood favorite series~
Rachel's always been my favorite of the characters- frustrated and fierce and not content to just sit back and watch anything when she can instead be doing.
This book is, imo, more of a gut punch than the first-- with more focus on the despair and humanity (or lack thereof). The treatment of her friend and the futility of trying to do anything for her, the danger of trying to help her, sets my teeth as much on edge as it does Rachel.
A good reminder of why her POV books were always my favorites, she just seems so much more human than the others with her frustration and chaos and determination.
Rachel's always been my favorite of the characters- frustrated and fierce and not content to just sit back and watch anything when she can instead be doing.
This book is, imo, more of a gut punch than the first-- with more focus on the despair and humanity (or lack thereof). The treatment of her friend and the futility of trying to do anything for her, the danger of trying to help her, sets my teeth as much on edge as it does Rachel.
A good reminder of why her POV books were always my favorites, she just seems so much more human than the others with her frustration and chaos and determination.
In case anyone is wondering, I've entered a book club where we're going to read all of these. What have we done?
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
tense
fast-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
Aww, Rachel. And aww, Tobias. Besties, furreal. The Taming of the Shrew reference/theme fits her so well. Rachel is just really cool. Mad respect. Marco had some great one liners; goofy, but endearing (to me). Thanks for being the peacemaker as always Cassie. And Jake... Jake, props for the quick thinking, but man...a flea morph?! Dawg...
Marco, how does eating eggplant compare to eating rats? Bro...
Marco, how does eating eggplant compare to eating rats? Bro...
The great thing about these books is that even now at 29 after finishing this book I have the same reaction I had when I read this book 16 years ago: I want to sit next to my cat and pet her and I imagine that if I focus really really hard maybe I'll discover that I can morph too. The fantasy is that powerful.
Or maybe I'm just a dork.
Or maybe I'm just a dork.
And here I am, the second book in to my Animorphs reread. Another short read: finished it in probably two hours. Applegate is very good at humanizing the weird and fantastic. The Yeerks may be bent on destroying the planet, but all they've destroyed so far are individual lives. Melissa's family is a snapshot of a very real tragedy -- parents in an unhappy marriage who are so involved in their own affairs that they leave their child feeling unloved -- through the lens of sci-fi. Definitely a 4/5, especially because a certain passage made me cry.
The pure unbridled nostalgia I’m experiencing rereading this series is DIVINE
Somehow I never read these when I was a kid but I'm finding that they're actually still really enjoyable as an adult. I really like all the characters so far and there's definitely an impressive level of body horror for a kid's series and from what I hear it only gets more intense as it goes on. Really fun so far.