Series Re-read #41 The Familiar

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Jake is just a normal kid. Well, as normal as possible considering he can morph animals and he's in a war against parasitic aliens. But as unbelieveable as it sounds, something even stranger has happened. One morning Jake wakes up and he's 25 years old.

Okay maybe it's some kind of wierd hallucination. Maybe it's a nightmare. Or maybe Jake's just lost it for a while and misplaced a few years. And there's another problem. The world Jake-the-kid went to sleep in has changed, and it's ruled by Yeerks. Jake has to find out if the other Animorphs and Ax are still around. Still somehow fighting. Or if he's really on his own.

I like this one because I'm a sucker for dystopian novels. A lot of wierd things in it though. You can't tell if it's a dream, hallucination, or what.

Why do you think the end is left ambigious? What was Jake's choice? I think he saved the world, there wasn't really any other choice. I have to break the rule about not going ahead this time. Was the voice at the end of the book The One, or someone else? Some people think it was.

And why didn't Cassie or Rachel either one morph?

I'm pretty sure the Aftermath game(http://www.animorphsafter.proboards.com) was at least partly inspired by this. *inserts blantant plug lol*

Prompt...dagnabit I can't come up with one this time. But I'll edit later if one comes to mind.

Comments

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KAA stated in an interview that a morph ages the amount of time you spend in it, so Tobias aged as a hawk, and if he became an Andalite nothlit (seems likely due to the age of his Andalite body and the fact that the hawk would be quite old after 12-odd years) he'd physically be a bit younger than Ax.