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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What is your favorite book and why? (self.animorphs)

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My favorite book is #26(One of them, anyway, who knows) when the animorphs learn

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That the howlers are actually children and they're murdering these children that were basically programmed to kill, and that obviously reflects the child soldier nature of all of the animorphs themselves, even though I didn't cry out in horror, I felt that hit me deep inside.

There's no hints that I remember that would allow you to figure out the howlers were all basically newborns, culled for any malfunction. They're so violent and I always recall the moment when they're punching and ripping at erek who's buying the animorphs just a little bit of time.

I guess the howlers do operate on instinct, and their main weapon is howling, like a newborn. Maybe the hints are there, but I never would have guessed. They also have stunning coordination and speed, something newborns are not known for.

Great book in a great series.

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