Series Re-Read #33 The Illusion
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animorphsljThe 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.
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.
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Date: 2010-03-02 01:03 am (UTC)After Tobias announces he'll go:
Cassie first, with that look of tender knowing she reserves for moments
of significance. I could tell she was proud of me. And worried.
This image is very motherly. It's interesting because I think this was how Cassie should have been portrayed all the time. She feels for her friends in a very emotional mother-love kind of way and she's proud of them for what they're doing. She knows it has to be done, but she's grieving too. But there's something queen-like about her.
Rachel's eyes were different. Dark, almost stricken.
Marco sent an ironic bow in my direction. "You're right, Tobias. Don't
you wish you weren't?"
Jake made a face I see too often. It's a look of disgust. Disgust with
himself. He hadn't wanted to single me out, make me go on what might be
a suicidal mission. He'd waited till I could volunteer.
< Tobias is correct, > Ax said. < But the mission could last longer than
two hours. To play the part convincingly - to make the Yeerks think
you're an Andalite in morph - you will have to "demorph" to Andalite. >
GREAT reactions.