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Animorphs

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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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I love the idea that a particular DNA can be allergic and your body just can't handle it despite all the future technology whatsis going on.

The point that I remember the best about this book, is definitely when Cassie as Rachel is walking away and the guy shouts "Andalite" after her, and Cassie just says "yeah, a light would be great".

That pun that had me rolling when I first read it, preteen dumbstruck by the cleverness, and now I realize one of the writers must have just had it in their back pocket for 12 books just waiting for the right moment haha.

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