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A review by the1germ
The Decision by K.A. Applegate
3.0
Mass suicide, Andalite traitors, and secret service controllers.
This one's a bit weird - it all starts with them morphing mosquitos to acquire the DNA of a secret service guy they plan to morph and blow the lid on the whole invasion before the Yeerks do. Because the mosquito bodies are so small, they end up zapped into Zero-Space with their bodies in the middle of a battle between the Andalites and Yeerk infested, psychic Leerans. By the time they get back to their original mission and end up not going through with it, it felt a little, uh, anti-climactic I guess?
The best parts of this book is Ax's character development. After sometime now of living with humans, he's suddenly thrust back into Andalite culture and some of his biases about the superiority of his race are challenged. They're pretty arrogant and not really doing all that well in this war, actually! He'd bought into propaganda, and discovers first hand the lengths his people will go to to maintain an image of righteousness.
But. Eh. I don't love how derailed the plot went to get there and the cop out at the end.
This one's a bit weird - it all starts with them morphing mosquitos to acquire the DNA of a secret service guy they plan to morph and blow the lid on the whole invasion before the Yeerks do. Because the mosquito bodies are so small, they end up zapped into Zero-Space with their bodies in the middle of a battle between the Andalites and Yeerk infested, psychic Leerans. By the time they get back to their original mission and end up not going through with it, it felt a little, uh, anti-climactic I guess?
The best parts of this book is Ax's character development. After sometime now of living with humans, he's suddenly thrust back into Andalite culture and some of his biases about the superiority of his race are challenged. They're pretty arrogant and not really doing all that well in this war, actually! He'd bought into propaganda, and discovers first hand the lengths his people will go to to maintain an image of righteousness.
But. Eh. I don't love how derailed the plot went to get there and the cop out at the end.