Book #283 of 2021: The Threat by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #21) So it turns out, most of what I’d remembered from this story arc about the new kid David joining the Animorphs actually takes place in the next / final book of that unofficial trilogy. Luckily, this middle volume is a lot stronger than …
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Book #277 of 2021: The Discovery by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #20) Well, I’ve been wanting the Animorphs series to grow more serialized, and it’s hard to beat the introduction of a new member, for the first time since Ax’s arrival in #4 The Message. (That would ordinarily be a bit of a spoiler, as …
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Book #271 of 2021: The Departure by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #19) Cassie is in crisis. The latest Animorphs battle wasn’t even that bad by the scale of what they’ve faced before, but as sometimes happens, it was enough to push her to a breaking point. A pacifist teen forced yet again to kill, she …
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Book #265 of 2021: In the Time of Dinosaurs by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs Megamorphs #2) I’m rather lukewarm on the first Megamorphs release, but this is the sort of big blockbuster adventure that the line seems built for, an over-the-top extravaganza that might strain the limits of the regular Animorphs series and benefits from …
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Book #259 of 2021: The Decision by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #18) The sci-fi concept of Zero-space in this series is one that doesn’t necessarily stand up to close scrutiny: it’s the empty dimension where Andalite spaceships go during faster-than-light / warp travel, but it’s also where a morpher’s excess body mass is temporarily deposited …
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Book #253 of 2021: The Underground by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #17) On the one hand, raids on the Yeerk pool already seem like the most generic and frequent Animorphs plots by this point in the series. On the other hand, this is the novel that gives us a specific variety of oatmeal as a …
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Book #247 of 2021: The Warning by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #16) The internet stuff in this novel is fairly dated, with AOL-style chat rooms and explanations of screen names and browser cookies, but only because the technology has moved on in the decades since 1998, never in a way that seems like author K. …
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Book #235 of 2021: The Unknown by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #14) It’s hard to pick the single goofiest element of this story. Is it the Yeerks infesting wild horses — the first earth animal hosts we’ve seen — to sneak into the setting’s equivalent of Area 51 and discover what the government is hiding …
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Book #229 of 2021: The Andalite Chronicles by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs Chronicles #1) I’m still too early in my Animorphs reread to definitively call this prequel my single favorite entry, but it is certainly a strong contender for that eventual claim. In its first half in particular, it’s a sweeping space opera that takes …
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Book #223 of 2021: The Change by K. A. Applegate (Animorphs #13) True to its title, this is one of the most consequential early Animorphs novels, coming just late enough in the franchise (around a quarter through) that the disruption to the prior status quo is completely unexpected and thrillingly carried off. That element is …
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