Scenes that stick out for you?
This is where they introduced thermals, where I imagine pretty much every single person who read Animorphs first became entranced by such a common sounding word describing such poetry in flight.
The scene that probably sticks out for me aside from the thermals, is when Rachel goes into their house and there's no music playing or TV in Chapman is just sitting blankly on the sofa, because the alien in his head isn't interested in doing anything but waiting for orders. I always thought that was really creepy. A lot of the rules are established too, but as soon as chapter 3 rolls around they make sure that we remember that these are children who are having nightmares because of the slaves and murders they've seen, and they're already changing their personalities because of the trauma they've endured so far.
They also start being paranoid around everyone, of course.
Rachel talks about her fear of potentially having to morph a bug, which is already giving me flashbacks about the ants.
I didn't even remember visser three's weird threat about using a varnax, a purple monster to suck yeerks out of their hosts.
Oh and then Melissa is her friend and Rachel has to come to terms with the fact that she's going to be lying to a lot of people she cares about now because the alternative is all of her friends and the earth are dead.
So the animorphs already have to abandon their ethics because the cause they're fighting for is too important to them. They're becoming totally different people because of the situation thrust upon them.
Oh, and you know what's really creepy, the kidnapper who tries to abduct Rachel and it's such a banal evil in this little side alley, Rachel doesn't tell anybody about it, she's used to people being creeps because she's an attractive girl, but it is a really creepy scene.
You guys have any thoughts on this book?
