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adam_mcphee 's review for:
The Visitor
by K.A. Applegate
I read these when I was a kid and then I read them once again in my late teens/early twenties out of nostalgia and so I could read them all in order, and this is one of the ones that just really sticks with me. There's no big battle or anything, it's more of an espionage tale but even then they get captured and it's just about staying alive. Basically it's the YA version of Melville's Army of Shadows, which is an insane thing to say, but it's true. Not to be an old person going "you couldn't get away with doing that today," but you absolutely couldn't! This was only possible in the 90s, when 1. America for once in its life was not on an insanely jingoistic war setting (not to say they weren't looking around for a new enemy) and 2. the YA sector hadn't yet turned into a trillion dollar industry with more rigid definitions of what's acceptable. I feel like a dork for saying it, but these books ruled.