Animorphs

I'm feeling 4

bold move with the title, but they really pull it off this book.

this is a great final installment.

the entire book is good, but here's a couple moments that stuck out.

I can't sing this book's praises enough, it really is a solid ending with room to continue or conclude a limited run if they want to.

doesn't even look like they bothered to erase the original title or crop the picture correctly,, but who doesn't like Nic Cage enough to overlook a lazy morph?

lots of great writing here.

this is probably my favorite description of an andalite in the series:

"he was a blue-furred centaur with a pair of extra eyes on movable stalks and a tail like a chef’s knife tied to the end of a bullwhip."

"Acceptable" mass casualties.

All of the emotional and moral discussions in this book are extremely well expressed and kick you in the gut.

War.

Maybe the least relevant title to content?

or maybe the title is lost in context since every character is the most unlike they have every been in the series and this book is all about coming to terms and impressing upon the naive that the only choices left to make in war are terrible choices.

I thought that Marco getting his face ripped off was the crazy part of this book but then i read the rest of it.

Vabarx, also known as the Yeerkbane, are large, transparent, and purple with a tubelike head. They eat Yeerks by sucking the controller's head until the Yeerk comes out.

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Weirdos

Wow, this is one of the best in my reread. I was riveted.

The shirt-abs on the cover are a little goofy, but the entire book is an absolute series of nightmares and moral horror.

A scrabbling shove into rough madness.

Revelation, war, and loss.

Crossing more lines they hadn't crossed before.

Disclaimer: lt's a fairly late plot point in this not unpopular book, so I'm changing the character name so that you don't recognize it if you happen upon the book one day.

It's Morphin' Time:

"...she realized she was flying. For a moment, human thought and hawk instinct clashed, and her wings flapped frantically. She dropped like a stone. Derry forced herself to let go, to let the unfamiliar senses guide her, and her wings made the correct angle and she caught the wind again.

She thought she had the trick of it now. One had to exercise enough control to keep one’s memory and purpose, but had to give the hawk enough rein to control the body. She made a slow circle to face toward the palace, watching the ground rush by below in impossibly fine detail and trying not to think about what her wings were doing.

Derry had not taken this form lightly.

A few powerful strokes of her wings took her higher and she flew toward the palace, astonished again at the power and strength of such a small body.

She had risen above and almost overshot the palace before she caught herself and turned back. It was no wonder human sorcerers lost themselves when they changed shape. If her sense of urgency hadn’t been so strong, it would have been easy to play on these wind currents until she forgot who she was."

More ramping up.

Another amazing book.

The beginning of the end,

what an insane series.

If you aren't going to reread the whole series, you will not regret rereading this one.

Getting Ready to Save the Woorrrld

by cordspaghetti

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Scary opening for a minute when nobody is answering Cassie and she thinks she's all alone on the mission.

Forrrreshadowing.

The Australian outback is such a good setting for an adventure. I'd like to read a longer version of a story like this.

Actually there was that popular YA series "tomorrow when the war began", that was a great series.

Blech, always hate it when anyone has to morph a taxxon.

Also hate being confronted with tobias' torturer.

Probably not as much as Tobias does, though.

Great inside cover!

Is this one a "yikes" for everybody?

Maybe they just needed a break from a book every month for five years.

I owned most of these books and this was one of the ones I reread the most because of how poetic so many difficult personal struggles and fears are faced and worked through so rapid fire, it's pretty overwhelming without being trite.

This book ends perfectly,

I cannot remember the first time I read this series, but I can't imagine thinking anything other than "ah, The power of friendship!"

Which upon this reread is hilarious given how clearly the authors wanted to portray a gay couple in 2000, which wasn't done often in a series fronted by a major publisher.

It's another good book!

Yikes.

They really get at some horror here.

Credit to "no banana" for the image and Hobbes_Dent for the title.

Zero credit to me for doomscroll.

Haha yea. CinnamonBunzuh.

awesome

Ax gets a big ol' crush on

This is a great book, testing ax's loyalty again.

A very good example of people insisting they're doing some necessary thing for the greater good by becoming the thing they're fighting against.

The characters and their Dynamics were very interesting in this book, non-stop action.

I remember this book because as soon as you realize that Jake is gone, you're like oh shit.

Wow! This book is really good, dealing with leadership and Marco's criticisms and how poorly Rachel deals with the leadership she thought she wanted,

I also never understood why the garatron looks so much like an andalite.

Are they just like hey isn't evolution weird? This one thing looks like another thing but they're not the same thing.

I don't get why that was so important.

Also, I was so glad that Jake spoke with Rachel shortly at the end of the book. Perfect ending.

Since I learned the word estreen, the andalite word for an extremely talented morpher, I searched for fanart based on that and found some interesting stuff.

Beautifully colored, is this oil painting?

Artist is artbyLars

Update: Estreen! That's the word. Found it!

An exceptionally talented morpher is an estreen! I knew there was a word for it.

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I can't find the word.

Isn't there a specific andalite word for how good Cassie is at morphing?

Artist - iara catunda

Yikes, I only remembered one scene from this book, and somehow managed to forget

Pretty hardcore.

And there's some cute Tobias Rachel back and forth.

Man, I wanna morph an orca.

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Tons of good quotes in this one.

I like that inside cover too, how they can't actually show the guy

even though of course it's described in great detail in the book.

Ax is so funny as a human. When he finds out that Marco's dad is dating, and ax's been getting used to TV, he says <Ah. Perhaps your father is Young and Restless. Those who are Young and Restless frequently change mates.>

Love it.

You know what else is interesting, that both sides in this war look like humans, they look like anybody else, even though both sides can turn into murderers at the drop of a hat. Sure. The aliens look like humans, but the child soldiers who change into animals all the time and kill people also look harmless most of the time.

And Jake has a great line about how they're all different and they have to deal with their trauma in their own way.

And also Jake said I love you to Cassie! Wooo!

Marco has this great quote:

"Self-pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism, that's tough."

I am definitely an unlikely optimist, I wonder if this book had any part to play in that particular personality development.

A great book for Cassie, although her books are always the most difficult because so many of her choices are to go against her nature as a pacifist and make some kind of sacrifice for the greater good. Like literally letting two different aliens control her in different books.

We get to read some impressive morphing showcases here and this inside cover is great.

The gang has a great plan to disrupt a dangerous new weapon and the plan mostly works until

Weird skin tones in that double andalite drawing. And a segmented rattlesnake tail, which I don't think we've seen before either and the tail has never been described looking like.