A review by laurelbard
The Visitor by K.A. Applegate

4.0

And here I am, the second book in to my Animorphs reread. Another short read: finished it in probably two hours. Applegate is very good at humanizing the weird and fantastic. The Yeerks may be bent on destroying the planet, but all they've destroyed so far are individual lives. Melissa's family is a snapshot of a very real tragedy -- parents in an unhappy marriage who are so involved in their own affairs that they leave their child feeling unloved -- through the lens of sci-fi. Definitely a 4/5, especially because a certain passage made me cry.