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A review by the1germ
The Predator by K.A. Applegate
3.0
The infamous ant book.
This one is kind of all over the place - there is a lot that happened here that I remember happening in other books, and I was surprised to see it all condensed in these 150 pages. The ants. Ax at the mall. Boiling lobsters. Trying to steal a Bug Fighter to get Ax home. Debatebly their first time in space? I wasn't really clear on that. They certainly didn't react to it.
And of course, the plot twist at the end.
Because there was soooo much going on, I don't really think it stuck the landing despite being a must-read in the series. The real highlight of this book was the absolute, unexpected HORROR of the ant morphs and hive mind.
Audiobook: In contrast to the last book, where the voice actress played Cassie a little too young IMO, this voice actor takes it FAR in the opposite direction. Marco sounds like a 45 year old republican lol. I'd hoped for, I don't know, someone that sounded like a teenager, and maybe a slight Hispanic accent? Alas.
This one is kind of all over the place - there is a lot that happened here that I remember happening in other books, and I was surprised to see it all condensed in these 150 pages. The ants. Ax at the mall. Boiling lobsters. Trying to steal a Bug Fighter to get Ax home. Debatebly their first time in space? I wasn't really clear on that. They certainly didn't react to it.
And of course, the plot twist at the end.
Because there was soooo much going on, I don't really think it stuck the landing despite being a must-read in the series. The real highlight of this book was the absolute, unexpected HORROR of the ant morphs and hive mind.
Audiobook: In contrast to the last book, where the voice actress played Cassie a little too young IMO, this voice actor takes it FAR in the opposite direction. Marco sounds like a 45 year old republican lol. I'd hoped for, I don't know, someone that sounded like a teenager, and maybe a slight Hispanic accent? Alas.