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3.74 AVERAGE
3.74 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
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:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
adventurous
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
fast-paced
adventurous
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:
Yes
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
fast-paced
adventurous
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An improvement over the first. Maybe because the story is told from the point of view of Rachel, who is allowed more personality than the much more generic leader figure Jake. This one centers on a fun infiltration and spying mission. Surprisingly violent and more emotionally evocative than the first.
Props to the audiobook narrator for really committing to the animal noises and occasional silly alien language dialogue. You did not always succeed, narrator, but better to make a bold choice than no choice at all.
This series is unabashedly bizarre, and that’s a point in its favor. You’d expect a series with the name “Animorphs” to be pretty generic. But it’s not afraid to be weird. The morphing itself has body horror elements to it. The evil invading aliens are pretty horrifying and violent. The lore is convoluted, enough that I’m worried about getting exhausted by every book having to reexplain it all.
Wildest thing that happens: (a new thing I’ll be commenting on for each volume) Rachel goes undercover as her best friend’s cat, not knowing that Jake is following her disguised as a flea hiding in her fur.
Cats, fleas, horses, eagles. Good to know the (iconically bonkers) covers really use an animal that appears in the book.
Two down. Fifty or so to go, if you don’t count the super volumes where they time travel to kill Hitler and turn into dinosaurs or something.
Props to the audiobook narrator for really committing to the animal noises and occasional silly alien language dialogue. You did not always succeed, narrator, but better to make a bold choice than no choice at all.
This series is unabashedly bizarre, and that’s a point in its favor. You’d expect a series with the name “Animorphs” to be pretty generic. But it’s not afraid to be weird. The morphing itself has body horror elements to it. The evil invading aliens are pretty horrifying and violent. The lore is convoluted, enough that I’m worried about getting exhausted by every book having to reexplain it all.
Wildest thing that happens: (a new thing I’ll be commenting on for each volume) Rachel goes undercover as her best friend’s cat, not knowing that Jake is following her disguised as a flea hiding in her fur.
Cats, fleas, horses, eagles. Good to know the (iconically bonkers) covers really use an animal that appears in the book.
Two down. Fifty or so to go, if you don’t count the super volumes where they time travel to kill Hitler and turn into dinosaurs or something.