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A review by thejanewayprotocol
Elfangor's Secret by K.A. Applegate
3.0
I don't think I read this one when I was younger?? I don't remember this one at all...I have to say that the title did let me down a bit... i thought this would be more backstory into Elfangors life as a human or maybe when Tobias was born....
In this installment we are dealing with the time matrix again, and I have to warn you, if you are really picky about your time travel storylines adding up then just skip this one. It was all over the place, and it was just a hot mess.
Some good things happen in this installment though: I can definitely start to see the gang grow up. This was the grittiest battle for them yet, and ironically it wasn't even Yeerks they were fighting: it was their own kind. I wish we had more Ax chapters to see how his interpretation of human nature took shape; studying them up close for months and then seeing what we were like hundreds of years ago. It would have been interesting.
I didn't realise how much I really loved Jake until I read that
Also, Tobias and Rachel's kiss was really underwhelming. I mean, I have shipped them from like, book three but I didn't want their first kiss to be a rip off of Jake and Cassie's from a couple books earlier! They deserved their own special moment dammit!
All in all, a nice break from the Yeerk war, but not my favourite Animorph tail. (See what I did there??)
In this installment we are dealing with the time matrix again, and I have to warn you, if you are really picky about your time travel storylines adding up then just skip this one. It was all over the place, and it was just a hot mess.
Some good things happen in this installment though: I can definitely start to see the gang grow up. This was the grittiest battle for them yet, and ironically it wasn't even Yeerks they were fighting: it was their own kind. I wish we had more Ax chapters to see how his interpretation of human nature took shape; studying them up close for months and then seeing what we were like hundreds of years ago. It would have been interesting.
I didn't realise how much I really loved Jake until I read that
Spoiler
his brains had been blown out. Even though I knew he would make it out alive - obviously, we are only half way through the series and he is on a bunch of covers still! I missed him terribly as a narrator.Also, Tobias and Rachel's kiss was really underwhelming. I mean, I have shipped them from like, book three but I didn't want their first kiss to be a rip off of Jake and Cassie's from a couple books earlier! They deserved their own special moment dammit!
All in all, a nice break from the Yeerk war, but not my favourite Animorph tail. (See what I did there??)