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A review by ihateprozac
Elfangor's Secret by K.A. Applegate
1.0
This was so weird that I can barely even write a synopsis or review of it….
Much like In the Time of Dinosaurs this story involves time travel, but it’s a lot more difficult to follow. Basically Visser Four has got hold of the Time Matrix and is using it to, for lack of a better term, fuck shit up. The Animorphs follow him through each of the time jumps and attempt to wrestle the Time Matrix back, to stop Visser Four changing the course of human history forever. The mere presence of the Animorphs and Visser Four during crucial moments wreaks havoc on our timeline, changing the course of wars and eliminating the entire African American civil rights movement! It’s really inconsistent though - their intervention in certain scenes has massive repercussions later down the line, but other changes are barely noticeable. At any rate, the Animorphs invariably manage to save the day and go back to the original timeline where Cassie is not Jake’s slave.
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This was weird and difficult to follow and I didn’t like it. In the Time of Dinosaurs was a fantastic look at the time travel paradox and how the Animorphs couldn’t really do too much to change human history, because the timeline they were living in was unknowingly the result of them already having visited the dinosaurs once upon a time…...It was confusing, but I was totally okay with it! Elfangor’s Secret was just confusing in a dissatisfying way, and felt like the author had rushed all of the explanations, rather than it being a case of wibbly wobbly timey wimey confusion.
If you can get away with it, don’t read this.
Much like In the Time of Dinosaurs this story involves time travel, but it’s a lot more difficult to follow. Basically Visser Four has got hold of the Time Matrix and is using it to, for lack of a better term, fuck shit up. The Animorphs follow him through each of the time jumps and attempt to wrestle the Time Matrix back, to stop Visser Four changing the course of human history forever. The mere presence of the Animorphs and Visser Four during crucial moments wreaks havoc on our timeline, changing the course of wars and eliminating the entire African American civil rights movement! It’s really inconsistent though - their intervention in certain scenes has massive repercussions later down the line, but other changes are barely noticeable. At any rate, the Animorphs invariably manage to save the day and go back to the original timeline where Cassie is not Jake’s slave.
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This was weird and difficult to follow and I didn’t like it. In the Time of Dinosaurs was a fantastic look at the time travel paradox and how the Animorphs couldn’t really do too much to change human history, because the timeline they were living in was unknowingly the result of them already having visited the dinosaurs once upon a time…...It was confusing, but I was totally okay with it! Elfangor’s Secret was just confusing in a dissatisfying way, and felt like the author had rushed all of the explanations, rather than it being a case of wibbly wobbly timey wimey confusion.
If you can get away with it, don’t read this.