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Animorphs.

Cool friends fighting aliens...more accurately, the pariah of a fascist civilization, minutes before being eaten alive in front of said "ccol friends" persuades and then bioengineers human child soldiers to facilitate an end to an ill-conceived and failing war now reduced to unilaterally exterminating a parasitic, physically disabled species, itself undergoing a violent civil rights movement on their own planet based on their self-recognized flaws, struggling to realize its place in a universe where godlike beings exist and decide not to offer remedy(rules of the god game) and spectate while the parasites overwhelm all vulnerable species in the known universe.

The child soldiers agree to resist the parasites, but at least a minority of them believe genocide is the wrong answer. After being physically and emotionally tortured, shot, repeatedly disemboweled and having their limbs hacked or bitten off by hosts of the parasitic species, however, all of the child soldiers begi

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #54 - The Beginning

    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.

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    The Cage

    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?

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #53 - The Answer

    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."

    ::: spoiler spoilers

    Finding arbron again is strange. weird that he is still a nothlit, weird that he has become the leader of his adopted species.

    "come on cassie, show me where to go next." is such a great show don't tell apology by Jake.

    It's so great that Jake trusts Cassie again and everybody else can see that she was right to let Tom take the morphing cube.

    finally! it's been awful seeing her get treated like a traitor for so long.

    and Jake basically asks Cassie to marry him, which is great.

    I very much like the moment Tom realizes Jake is alive and the visser sarcastically congratulates Tom on his astute observation.

    i also really like how the visser is completely aware and resigned to his fate. I wish he was a little more realistic a

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    works great against worms, parasites...

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #52 - The Sacrifice

    "Acceptable" mass casualties.

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

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Bay-bayyyyy!

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Whats the funniest line or situation you remember from the series? This one really got me this reread.

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #51 - The Absolute

    War.

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Science Morphs

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #50 - The Ultimate

    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.

    ::: spoiler spoilers

    everyone dies or you find a few more soldiers willing to sacrifice themselves.

    It's pretty difficult watching the game pedantically and repeatedly explain to their parents that the life they thought they had is gone and people are dying and getting hurt. and you can't choose the moral high road unless you're willing to sacrifice others.

    and the Animorphs have to hold the line on this reasoning because they're the only ones who really understand where the line is.

    This is the controversial (as I remember it) decision to recruit disabled kids to be soldiers, because they're sure that the yeerks don't want any physically disabled bodies.

    The ending really shocked me, I f

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #49 - The Diversion

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

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Vanarx, scourge of the Yeerk.

    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.

    Weirdos

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #48 - The Return

    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.

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #47 - The Resistance

    Revelation, war, and loss.

    Crossing more lines they hadn't crossed before.

  • Animorphs @sh.itjust.works
    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    very Animorphs excerpt from a different book by a different author(spoiler-free)

    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 s

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #46 - The Deception

    More ramping up.

    Another amazing book.

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    Varyk @sh.itjust.works

    Mulling Over Morphs #45 - The Revelation

    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.