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.

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[anijen21.livejournal.com]

that's a good question

I mean, if nothing else, it buys the Animorphs some time...even though they didn't have a mission that night, idk. Diverts Chapman's attention to something ultimately irrelevant, that can't be a bad thing.

and tbh I kind of think that Controllers are a the whims of their hosts' addictions. I mean, they've got to eat and poop for their hosts, so they answer to the same urges we do, but *real life* has already been characterized as such a beautiful, disgusting things by Yeerks I don't think physiological addiction is a switch they can just flip.

It would be much less interesting if they could, at the very least.

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I remember that in Visser, one of Edriss's hosts was a drug addict. Edriss said that she kept using the drugs, because it made her host much more submissive. So...that doesn't really answer the question, does it?

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ohhhhhhhhhhhhh I forgot about Jenny Lines (lol the weirdly appropriate naming of fourth-tier characters), but yeah, I totally read that as "I was completely addicted but I've got to cover for it now that I'm on trial" or whatever