Series re-read #44 The Unexpected

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The Yeerks are transporting pieces of a crashed blade ship somewhere. The Animorphs want to get the scraps and show them to the world. But a string of bad decisions leaves Cassie stuck on board a plane. It's going to someplace with the letters SYD, but she doesn't know until after she lands where that's at. The controllers catch onto her and in the fight, she ends up bailing out. Now she's alone, in the middle of the Australian outback. And Visser Three is there too.

I know this one is gonna get dumped on, because of the last time around LOL.

I don't like the whole isolating a single character for the whole book thing. It doesn't do much for me not having the whole group involved in the adventure.

And according to one of our Australian fans, there are some not-so-good Aussie depictions or stereotypes in the whole thing.

At least next week's is a book I enjoy a little more.

Comments

[anijen21.livejournal.com]

mostly it's pacing. I think it's the most poorly paced book in the series. Based on its significance in the overall arc, you'd think it'd be one of the longest books in the series, but it's one of, if not THE shortest. And even being the shortest, it's full of some of the most unapologetic filler in the entire series. Plus I really don't like the way Marco's dad reacted, idk.

[buffyangellvr23.livejournal.com]

Sunday's talk should be interesting.

I think it should have been two books myself.