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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 remember this book fairly accurately, there's so much going on on it. So exciting. It's difficult to forget.

TitleThe failed attempts to sneak into the rich guy's house, the gunshot wounds on Jake's rhino, the new exciting internet chat rooms where they find out that other people know about the yeerks, and especially the disgusting fact that they find out one yeerk is killing hosts to extract yeerks to eat.

That cannibal murder part actually slipped my mind until this reread, perhaps out of a wee bit o' trauma.

Anybody else remember this one?

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