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The Answer
by K.A. Applegate
An orbiting graveyard.
In which Jake does what he thinks he needs to do. Creates a solution for the Taxxons. Makes a suggestion on behest of saving another world from Yeerk infestation at the hands of his brother's Yeerk. Gets around Erek's programming, very much against Erek's will. And orders many people to their deaths, including his cousin. Commits a massacre.
#53 is blatantly hard to read. While most books in the series spend whole stories and then their aftermaths carefully combing through each moral choice, the "final battle" strips away in chunks what the rest of the series has been doing in flakes. Cassie and Tobias spend a good chunk of this book objecting to what Jake is doing, as he's doing it. This is ignored. The bridge with Erek is burned all the way through. This is it. The book sets up a cliffhanger where it really, really feels like we already know the answer and won't say it. It's exactly what you think you're getting out of Jake's last book. It's a moral event horizon.
In which Jake does what he thinks he needs to do. Creates a solution for the Taxxons. Makes a suggestion on behest of saving another world from Yeerk infestation at the hands of his brother's Yeerk. Gets around Erek's programming, very much against Erek's will. And orders many people to their deaths, including his cousin. Commits a massacre.
#53 is blatantly hard to read. While most books in the series spend whole stories and then their aftermaths carefully combing through each moral choice, the "final battle" strips away in chunks what the rest of the series has been doing in flakes. Cassie and Tobias spend a good chunk of this book objecting to what Jake is doing, as he's doing it. This is ignored. The bridge with Erek is burned all the way through. This is it. The book sets up a cliffhanger where it really, really feels like we already know the answer and won't say it. It's exactly what you think you're getting out of Jake's last book. It's a moral event horizon.