Series Re-Read #33 The Illusion

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The anti-morphing ray is still in development, and still has to be stopped. So the group comes up with a plan. Tobias will morph Ax and get himself captured. When he demorphs to hawk, the Yeerks will hit him with the ray and think it doesn't work.

I have a hard time re-reading this one because of all the angst.

Do you think they did adequate follow-up with this book, handled Tobias's aftermath well enough? I'm not sure what I think.

Taylor's an interesting character, the whole Yeerk/host merging thingy that we find out about her. And of course she comes back in The Test.

Also interesting that Tobias didn't want to kill her in the end...I suppose he didn't want Rachel to kill her if she wasn't a direct threat anymore...if they weren't defending themselves or something like that.

Comments

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I hate when people preface their comments with some excuse, but I'm high as a kite so please excuse it if this makes no sense.

I'm reading over the first few chapters and they are amazing. Rachel and Tobias...he can't trust that she isn't trying to trap him in morph. And being chased by one of his old teachers? I can feel for that teacher...maybe helping Tobias out before, being worried about the kid. And then Tobias vanishes and he forgets to find out, but it still bothers him. Then he sees Tobias and he realizes that this is is chance to redeem himself or something.

THEN, the scene where a girl says hi to jake (flirt) and Jake can't remember her name at first. Beautiful.

THEN, Tobias notes that he can't trust Jake's motives or anything he says. Jake used to be open but now he's sometimes saying things to use people.

In the barn, Tobias notices that something's up with Jake's reactions but Jake won't suggest Tobias go himself...so he waits until Tobias does it. I'm sure if Tobias refused to say anything, Jake would have adorned the meeting and told everyone to sleep on it.

Small things:

I saw the confirmation in Jake's eyes. And in the hologram that gave
Erek eyes.

Marco clicked about a second later.[...]

Cassie nodded, reluctant. Rachel kept her eyes down. She was biting her
lip. Angry, sad: the two emotions are very close together in Rachel.


This entire scene characterizes so perfectly. I can just see how this worked in my head. Tobias has really character-penetrating thoughts on his friends; he probably understands them just as well as Jake.

more later?

[sporadicfungian.livejournal.com]

I hate when people preface their comments with some excuse, but I'm high as a kite so please excuse it if this makes no sense.
lol this is the best comment-preface ever.

i also love the "um... brittany!" moment. and actually everything you mention about those opening chapters is so true. there's so much in there about personality and relationship dynamics in just a few chapters where not much actually happens.