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A review by the1germ
The Message by K.A. Applegate
3.0
Everything about this book SHOULD qualify another 5-star on my Animorphs scale, but eh. I don't know. Something about this one has just never clicked with me.
This one is significant, with actual game-changing events. The scale is broadened outside of just their backyard. It's set underwater, with DOLPHINS, and WHALES, and SHARKS! With underwater dome habitat thingies!
But look. They take forever getting there, with so much back-and-forth before they actually do anything. I can't believe Ax survived all that time while Cassie whinged about what to do. Her moral dilemma about morphing into dolphins could have been interesting if it hadn't been thrown away entirely with no resolution. At the end of the book, there is no discussion or reconciliation whatsoever with the morality of morphing into sentient beings, despite it being a major plot point in this book. It doesn't even cross Cassie's mind that he just did exactly what she's quarreled with this whole time.
This also is the first of the audiobooks so far I haven't thoroughly enjoyed. The narrator plays it a bit young, and this was the first of the four I've listened to so far where I felt like I was definitely listening to a kid's book.
This one is significant, with actual game-changing events. The scale is broadened outside of just their backyard. It's set underwater, with DOLPHINS, and WHALES, and SHARKS! With underwater dome habitat thingies!
But look. They take forever getting there, with so much back-and-forth before they actually do anything. I can't believe Ax survived all that time while Cassie whinged about what to do. Her moral dilemma about morphing into dolphins could have been interesting if it hadn't been thrown away entirely with no resolution. At the end of the book
Spoiler
when Ax morphs into a Captain Planet version of the human AnimorphsThis also is the first of the audiobooks so far I haven't thoroughly enjoyed. The narrator plays it a bit young, and this was the first of the four I've listened to so far where I felt like I was definitely listening to a kid's book.