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Sieppaus, by K.A. (Katherine) Applegate, K.A. (Katherine) Applegate

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kateoclaire's review against another edition

4.0

This is one of my favorite premises (and most memorable) in the entire series, but on my first re-read in almost 20 years, I do wish Applegate had taken it just a smidge further. I know, I know, it's for pre-teens. I was 10 when I first read it, probably couldn't have handled if it had been taken much further! It was certainly enough to make me remember it all these years later, and it remains my favorite so far.

wanderlustlover's review against another edition

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3.0

Spring 2020 (Feb);

Book 6 returns us to the beginning of our POV wheel, with Jake, leader of the Animorphs, keeper of Marco's Big Secret, and anything-but-secret-boyfriend of Cassie.

This book is early in the series but I felt out kid (like many kids do) copped out of making the hard choices the situations put in front of him needed him to make. As a reader this frustrates me, for wanting to see more realistic handling of what is in front of then, but at the same time I wouldn't expect a child to step up to that plate immediately.

I was really raptly interested in the chapters devoted to being in Jake's head, while he was trapped with the Yerk in his head, controlling his body, shuffling through his memories. It was a little too convenient for me to say the one Yerk of hundreds in the pool that managed to get in his head was the one from his brother (so Jake could be horrified about his brother's terror and horror and defeat). But aside from that I really liked it.

Finally getting a little more one or on with the bad guys aside from the mini-clashes, or chases, or two-seconds of grandstanding before the kids all managed to flee safely. That was exciting and chilling all at once, giving us the inside to how all the parents, siblings, friends, and etc dealing with controllers are inside their own heads. I was really pleased to see this happen so early and give more context.

I'm definitely keeping a list of the glimpses of things we're getting without explanations, too. Snide comments without explanation; dreams; appearances of things. (Yes, I totally reread that red-eye thing three times because it came out of nowhere suddenly and obviously is going to be important in the future.)

araleith's review against another edition

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4.0

I liked seeing more of the Yeerks and how they see the world in this one.

ghostinthepages's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

4.0

panda_incognito's review against another edition

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4.0

This one is riveting. I couldn't put it down, and the story raises the stakes in huge ways while also providing moments of deep emotional reflection. I definitely wasn't anticipating the twists in this book, and the depiction of Jake

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struggling for control of his mind and fighting with the Yeerk voice in his head

was so well-written.

mugsandpugs's review against another edition

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5.0

This was so good and exciting! We got so much new insight into the Yeerks and how they function...

The bits where the animorphs are working to keep Yeerk-Jake in the forest felt a little like the Most Dangerous Game, only being played by six players who can all shapeshift.

And as usual the horror is barely under the surface the entire time with some really dark implications that I'm living for. Tom has no mouth and he must scream.

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Not to mention a thirteen year old boy got shot, possessed, had his dreams and thoughts mocked, was a danger to his friends, and had to experience a sentient being's prolonged death inside of him. Oh yeah, and MURDERED about 100 other such sentient beings.

I do have to ask, though, why don't the animorphs do to Tom what they did to Jake in this book? Why not

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take him to that shack in the woods, too, and starve the yeerk inside him?