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cwednesday95's review against another edition
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
legendofstorm's review against another edition
4.0
This book has the kids facing some heavy emotions that adults coming from war would dealt with. Ambiguous moral situations. Near death experiences. Panic. Trauma. Isolation.
exquisite_ashes's review against another edition
3.0
A lot of this one unfortunately just rehashed Jake's last book - namely, how to deal with 'I made a bad decision against my instincts and got my friends in trouble'; why didn't he learn from his last instinct not to do it? - but also, 'it's hard to fight evil without doing some,' that whole bit was a good punch to the gut. STOP PUNCHING ME IN THE GUT, CHILDREN'S SERIES
(just kidding, why would I reread all of Animorphs if I didn't want to be punched in the gut)
(just kidding, why would I reread all of Animorphs if I didn't want to be punched in the gut)
joshualeet697's review against another edition
4.0
As I read these books I find myself continually impressed by how entertaining they are even as an adult. as I may have mentioned before I read these up to about book 25 or 26, many years ago. So at this point I am still catching up. I always wanted to know what happened after book 26, after I gave up reading the series. in fact the only reason I ever stopped reading them was because those were the only ones I owned. I lived in an area where I had no access to the rest of these books.
So to get to the rant... I don't often review these books because I mostly just read them in between in spare minutes here and there. They're kids books and I don't usually feel inclined to review kids books. But I actually enjoyed this one a lot... enough to justify a review. What I liked about this book was that there was indeed an unexpected twist. I won't go into the details of that but I will say that these books continue to surprise me in many ways.
When I think of the age group that these books are meant to target I am surprised by how mature the subject matter is. Dealing with life and death, making decisions that adults have to make... is a hard thing for a child to do and maybe to understand. Yet at the same time I feel like we do not give children enough credit. it is in our youth we are most intellectually inclined, most malleable, most able to absorb new ideas. Children see more than we realize. They feel more than we realize and they think more then we think they think, if that makes any sense. And in these books you may think these topics to be mature, complex and often even philosophical, but children are capable of absorbing the subject matter and I feel like we dumb things down far too much nowadays.
I wish more children would read books like this that deal with real problems that deal with friendship, love and hate, compromises and life problems. Perhaps I'm not vastly read in the children's fiction genre but I have seen television shows for instance that children watch and I'm often appalled by the simplistic nature. I feel as though children are capable of watching and reading things with a lot more depth than they currently possess, in many cases.
This book does a lot of things. It makes you think about life. It makes you think about death. It makes you think about love and it makes you think about hate. It also challenges you to consider that good and bad are not always as they seem not all good people do exclusively good things and not all bad people do exclusively good or bad things. Sometimes a good person has to do bad things because it is the right thing to do and sometimes a bad person is allowed to do things that are bad because, for the better good they must be allowed to continue doing what they are doing. Do we exterminate evil all the time or do we allow ourselves to live with it, knowing it is a necessary evil, knowing that it is a compromise to live in a world where things are both good and bad. These are the questions that are raised in this book as well as in many others, and for these reasons I enjoyed it. Tthe ending was a bit of a surprise and it was interesting reading about the concept of good and bad and necessary evil. There are many thinking exercises here!
So to get to the rant... I don't often review these books because I mostly just read them in between in spare minutes here and there. They're kids books and I don't usually feel inclined to review kids books. But I actually enjoyed this one a lot... enough to justify a review. What I liked about this book was that there was indeed an unexpected twist. I won't go into the details of that but I will say that these books continue to surprise me in many ways.
When I think of the age group that these books are meant to target I am surprised by how mature the subject matter is. Dealing with life and death, making decisions that adults have to make... is a hard thing for a child to do and maybe to understand. Yet at the same time I feel like we do not give children enough credit. it is in our youth we are most intellectually inclined, most malleable, most able to absorb new ideas. Children see more than we realize. They feel more than we realize and they think more then we think they think, if that makes any sense. And in these books you may think these topics to be mature, complex and often even philosophical, but children are capable of absorbing the subject matter and I feel like we dumb things down far too much nowadays.
I wish more children would read books like this that deal with real problems that deal with friendship, love and hate, compromises and life problems. Perhaps I'm not vastly read in the children's fiction genre but I have seen television shows for instance that children watch and I'm often appalled by the simplistic nature. I feel as though children are capable of watching and reading things with a lot more depth than they currently possess, in many cases.
This book does a lot of things. It makes you think about life. It makes you think about death. It makes you think about love and it makes you think about hate. It also challenges you to consider that good and bad are not always as they seem not all good people do exclusively good things and not all bad people do exclusively good or bad things. Sometimes a good person has to do bad things because it is the right thing to do and sometimes a bad person is allowed to do things that are bad because, for the better good they must be allowed to continue doing what they are doing. Do we exterminate evil all the time or do we allow ourselves to live with it, knowing it is a necessary evil, knowing that it is a compromise to live in a world where things are both good and bad. These are the questions that are raised in this book as well as in many others, and for these reasons I enjoyed it. Tthe ending was a bit of a surprise and it was interesting reading about the concept of good and bad and necessary evil. There are many thinking exercises here!
venneh's review against another edition
4.0
And this is the one where it is revealed that the internet was technically invented by the Yeerks, we get to deal with chat rooms and the late 90s/early 00s internet, we realize that all billionaires should be destroyed, though maybe not literally eat, because the billionaire founder of the internet is a Yeerk who is Visser Three's yeerk twin and has figured out how to survive without Kadrona rays - serial killing other controllers he finds on the internet and eating their Yeerks, which also involves killing their human hosts. Yay?? God I forgot how fucked up these books get.
kimbeey13's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
gnome_7's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25