Okay I'm kind of cheating on "most ridiculous" thing because I don't think it's what you had in mind, but the thing about #17... Animorphs tackles all kinds of awful war stuff, even at this point in the series. Germ warfare? Huge thing. But I feel like it was laughed off. Some of the characters wanted to really talk about this, but others played it off "It's oat-FREAKING-meal!". WHICH happens in real life of course, but I felt that the book really kind of settled on that perspective, instead of making note of "we're doing a fucked-up thing". I guess you can chalk it up to them still not being totally war-weary yet, but it's the most ridic thing about the book to me! I kind of felt the book was too "fun" and "silly" for the topic, but that is my opinion!
Anyway, normally I'd vote Rachel's elephant over her grizzly (I just love the impracticality of it) but her sort of beginning relationship with her grizzly here is really beautiful. I think #7 is objectively the best of this selection. Though #2 was the first Animorphs book I read, so I am rather fond of it.
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Date: 2013-03-07 10:54 pm (UTC)Anyway, normally I'd vote Rachel's elephant over her grizzly (I just love the impracticality of it) but her sort of beginning relationship with her grizzly here is really beautiful. I think #7 is objectively the best of this selection. Though #2 was the first Animorphs book I read, so I am rather fond of it.