Series Re Read: #44 The Unexpected

[buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com]

The Animorphs have been split up before. And they've had to fight battles without one another. But, this time is very different. Not only is Cassie totally alone, she's managed to find herself in Australia. In the rural Outback. The other Animorphs and Ax don't even know she's there.

Cassie doesn't have any idea where she's going, or if she can even survive the rugged terrain. But she does know she has to get to a town or village and contact her family and friends. Because she's realized that there's someone else who is also new to the Outback.

Visser Three.

I fully expect a lot of ranting about this one based on previous comments. I'm extremely curious. Could whoever it was that posted on this book before elaborate on what wrong stereotypes were promoted? I don't know that much about the people, and am interested to learn.

I'm not a big fan of solo books, which probably makes it good that this is the only totally solo one that I can remember.

I remember complaints about Cassie's bad decisions and bad thinking. How could a plot like this have been better executed so as to be tolerable at least? The idea of going to another country is cool, but obviously from what you all have said, they didn't do a good job.

Prompt...a long way from home

Hopefully next week will be a lot better. The Revelation is one of my favorites in the series. And a huge turning point in the series besides.

*digs bunker and prepares for lots of complaints about this one*

Comments

[tallyslium.livejournal.com]

There were a lot of complaints about this one? I can't remember much about this book, and maybe that's a good thing. Only thing that comes to memory is that Cassie does surgery on someone (or something) and eating grubs for breakfast.

[buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com]

I hope I'm not presupposing too much...I do know some negative comments were made about it.

She did surgery in hork-bajir morph to save the grandfather and they offered her grubs but she couldn't bring herself to eat them lol. I don't blame her. Eww.

[mattiris.livejournal.com]

Being Australian I hated the stereotypes in this book. The best way I can sum it up is that someone crash-lands in the middle of a Texan cattle ranch and are rescued by Native Americans who don't have so much as a radio in order to communicate with the outside world. It's just... not what Australia is.

[almighty-patsy.livejournal.com]

Yeah... if this is an Aboriginal family that speaks English as their native language, I don't see how they'd be that removed from the wider Australian culture. Wasn't there a part where the "wise old native man" doesn't understand the concept of a spaceship, because the crashing ship he saw had to be an ancestor spirit, or somesuch? ... even after it was explained to him?

(To be fair, finding a family in the outback makes a more interesting story than "Cassie lands in the outback, finds no-one, and has to walk for a month or two until she can get the technology she needs" would have been very boring, even if it's the more likely scenario.)

[mattiris.livejournal.com]

Yeahhhh - that's what I mean. You can't have "regular trade and communication with local city" and "is a spaceship a Dreaming spirit?" in the same scenario.

[geritar.livejournal.com]

I have to say I skipped this one because I don't think I could sit through it again. I just remembered that I hated it the first time, and that's good enough for me.

Why did I hate it? Well, other than the fact that it had absolutely nothing to do with the Animorphs...