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A review by bookishblond
The Message by K.A. Applegate
Rereading the Animorphs series as an adult:
Oh my gosh, I can't believe we already get Ax! I didn't remember him showing up so early in the series, but I guess it only makes sense because he's a major character.
This book was interesting because Applegate threw in an ethical dilemma. Philosophy lite. Cassie starts having second guessing when the gang decides to morph dolphins (which was Cassie's idea in the first place). They're too smart! What are we doing? We can't exploit the intelligent dolphins this way! (Omg and the Garden dolphins were named after the Friends. Love it.)
She doesn't have a grasp on how acquiring DNA works, which is fine because she's in middle school, but later in the book when Marco's dolphin morph is injured, she has a perfect understanding on how DNA works and knows that if Marco just morphs back to human and then to dolphin again he'll be fine. Maybe she did some research.
I LOVED how the whales were called the great ones and the dolphins the little ones. Major environmentalism feels. I didn't remember that part.
I just died when Ax called Jake "Prince Jake." I forgot all about that. Ax is a comedic icon. Kind of creepy how he made a human morph out of all of the Animorphs, though... how does that work? Pretty sure that technology doesn't ever come up again...
Oh, and the scene where the kids think they're about to die, again, and Cassie is like, Jake, I have something to tell you! And Jake is like, I know, you didn't have to tell me. That is the EXACT scene that played out between Rachel and Tobias in the last book.
Oh my gosh, I can't believe we already get Ax! I didn't remember him showing up so early in the series, but I guess it only makes sense because he's a major character.
This book was interesting because Applegate threw in an ethical dilemma. Philosophy lite. Cassie starts having second guessing when the gang decides to morph dolphins (which was Cassie's idea in the first place). They're too smart! What are we doing? We can't exploit the intelligent dolphins this way! (Omg and the Garden dolphins were named after the Friends. Love it.)
She doesn't have a grasp on how acquiring DNA works, which is fine because she's in middle school, but later in the book when Marco's dolphin morph is injured, she has a perfect understanding on how DNA works and knows that if Marco just morphs back to human and then to dolphin again he'll be fine. Maybe she did some research.
I LOVED how the whales were called the great ones and the dolphins the little ones. Major environmentalism feels. I didn't remember that part.
I just died when Ax called Jake "Prince Jake." I forgot all about that. Ax is a comedic icon. Kind of creepy how he made a human morph out of all of the Animorphs, though... how does that work? Pretty sure that technology doesn't ever come up again...
Oh, and the scene where the kids think they're about to die, again, and Cassie is like, Jake, I have something to tell you! And Jake is like, I know, you didn't have to tell me. That is the EXACT scene that played out between Rachel and Tobias in the last book.