I don't remember much of this book, probably because it ends with some time travel reset nonsense.
This book really was "the forgotten" for me.
That ending scene with Jake remembering what happened and nobody else remembering is pretty good.
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Animorphs.
Cool friends fighting aliens...more accurately, the pariah of a fascist civilization, minutes before being eaten alive in front of said "ccol friends" persuades and then bioengineers human child soldiers to facilitate an end to an ill-conceived and failing war now reduced to unilaterally exterminating a parasitic, physically disabled species, itself undergoing a violent civil rights movement on their own planet based on their self-recognized flaws, struggling to realize its place in a universe where godlike beings exist and decide not to offer remedy(rules of the god game) and spectate while the parasites overwhelm all vulnerable species in the known universe.
The child soldiers agree to resist the parasites, but at least a minority of them believe genocide is the wrong answer. After being physically and emotionally tortured, shot, repeatedly disemboweled and having their limbs hacked or bitten off by hosts of the parasitic species, however, all of the child soldiers begin taking violent, morally devastating actions that end their lives as they know them.
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Yea, I agree, this is the first time where a reader is like "Oh, so none of that mattered. okay."
Maybe they just needed a couple extra weeks to get the main storyline progressing in a further book and this was just a stop gap novel.
I can't even begin to comprehend the pressure to crank out book after book. If I remember correctly, they were coming out one every month.
Looks like that's correct, since the entire main series of 54 bucks came out in 5 years, from 1996 to 2001.
And then there were the mega morphs and the alternamorphs and the Chronicles books coming out simultaneously, so closer to 3 weeks for each book on average. Insane. Impressive.