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]

that thing about the drawing is a really good observation--I was actually thinking about how strong a book MM4 is, but there is this one line where it's like "my uncle got drunk and passed out on my bed" that just made me laugh so hard and I felt so bad about it, but it was kind of a stupid line. That drawing thing is such a good detail, and you're exactly right about the reason why. The really heartbreaking things about abuse aren't just getting smacked around or yelled at but the more subtle, little things that should just be implicit in the parent/child relationship but just aren't there. And bringing that to light can be a lot sadder.