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

[blue_rampion]

Ah, I see! But yes, Lost got it right then XD

Fact is, every major Australian city is coastal. And pretty much most of the minor cities as well. Since the middle is well...the Outback. It's not exactly the most livable area. (And, even if the people were going to Alice Springs or something, they'd still have to stop and transfer at a coastal city anyway, because it's such a long flight where there is literally no chance of refueling. Not to mention that flights to Alice aren't exactly frequent.)

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

Yeah. You don't fly directly from Sydney to, say, Chicago either--you land on the edge of the country by the ocean and transfer. The only thing I can think is that the Yeerks somehow screwed up the flight instruments and the communications devices on the plane. But you'd think the pilots would still be able to get a visual on a FREAKING CITY.

[blue_rampion]

I think you notice that you were suddenly over land and not ocean, if nothing else

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

MTE.