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

[anijen21.livejournal.com]

eh idk, I feel like that Cassie book is the level of quality that all of the ghostwritten books should have achieved. Like it was good, but it still had its problems. And though it did a really good job of introducing/developing the auxiliary animorphs, it's very possible to blame the reaction to the fact that they were nothing more than red shirts/cannon fodder to that book.

And that's a really good point about the optimism/happy/naivete. I don't know if it's a theme or just because, you know, they were the bad guys.

[anijen21.livejournal.com]

I meant good guys

all of those aliens were the good guys

with shades of gray