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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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lots of great writing here.

this is probably my favorite description of an andalite in the series:

"he was a blue-furred centaur with a pair of extra eyes on movable stalks and a tail like a chef’s knife tied to the end of a bullwhip."

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Finding arbron again is strange. weird that he is still a nothlit, weird that he has become the leader of his adopted species.

"come on cassie, show me where to go next." is such a great show don't tell apology by Jake.

It's so great that Jake trusts Cassie again and everybody else can see that she was right to let Tom take the morphing cube.

finally! it's been awful seeing her get treated like a traitor for so long.

and Jake basically asks Cassie to marry him, which is great.

I very much like the moment Tom realizes Jake is alive and the visser sarcastically congratulates Tom on his astute observation.

i also really like how the visser is completely aware and resigned to his fate. I wish he was a little more realistic and not so goofy as an evil son of a bitch most of the series.

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