A review by drizzlybear
The Message by K.A. Applegate

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.0

you know. this one's fine, not too standout.

its mostly just here to provide us with our new bonus character, ax. the morphs were pretty cool - seagull were funny how they kept getting distracted, and dolphins were just neat, so powerful and smart but also playful. i also enjoyed the bit where cassie found out that whales are kind of psychic and just very mysterious wise beings?? and the whales save them multiple times
also they suffer their first horrifying injury! marco gets his dolphin tail bitten off and almost bleeds out :))) they're gonna get used to this eventually heheheh. it begins
cassie also gets a fun character reason beyond 'if we have the power i can't just stand aside' to fight the yeerks - according to ax, standard yeerk protocol is to basically extinguish biodiversity on every planet they conquer, and cassie won't stand for that