
The Beginning
Animorphs, Book 54
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K. A. Applegate
We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us...well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in really big trouble. Yeah. Even you.
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Yeerk ships are pouring in from all ends of the galaxy—this is it. What will be the climactic, awful battle the Animorphs have been waiting for. Rachel has always been prepared for all out war, perhaps a little too ready. The President of the United States is a Controller, so the Animorphs have to rally their own military force. They succeed. Five thousand troops will fight against the seemingly endless onslaught of Yeerks. And this time, there will be no compromise. No half way. It's all out war for the Animorphs. It's Rachel's moment.
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People were so invested in this series, and I was as well, meaning it’s probably quite unpopular to say so, but the conclusion is about as lacklustre as the beginning was intriguing.
Considering 53 and 54 should according to all the rules of literature have been one book (because 90% of 54’s plot can be found in 53, but then they couldn’t have overcharged you twice, I suppose), the prose appears oddly rushed, dispatching the predictable scenario at speed which suggests the authors longed for the unwieldy beast to be put down at last. Here one finds none of the flashes of moral insight visible in the first twenty books or so, and glimmering feebly on occasion thereafter. Not only is 54’s emotional impact trite and insincere (& without a plot, the final emotional impact is what one paid for, in fact) but there’s no apparent upside… the children’s voices still sound about twelve, not sixteen or older; and far from being visionary, large portions of the war's aftermath are simply unbelievable—the animorphs encounter no suspicion from earth’s leaders, no snags distributing the morphing technology, whose power humans apparently don’t covet (David having been some sort of nasty aberration I suppose), and apart from one 'poaching' incident (given a brief mention, not explored), earth’s people seem contented to share their planet with multiple alien species. How can longstanding deference to dark plausibility have deserted the authors at this critical moment? The story’s conclusion is facile; it has no substance, merely pandering to the desire for a happy & ~dynamic ending. A pile of plotless rubbish with a sickening sugary odour. When the filler books begin to make you yawn and sleep, SAVE YOUR MONEY AND READ A SUMMARY OF THE CONCLUSION ONLINE. There is no redemption. There is no end to characters being 'in character' —which is to say, before mid-series one can anticipate each character’s mawkish lines, and instead of blurring or changing like natural humans each character becomes more doggedly entrenched in the particular dilemma designated 30+ books ago, which is when the fount of new material ran dry, full stop; and even such a cleverly-contrived arrangement can after long use grow stale. If a character were to snuff it it would of course be the one handled so ineptly by ghostwriters as to be reduced to a grotesque caricature, a figure of fun. The disabled children do perish and all, though the author showed her guilt at the use to which they were destined to be put in the initial stages of recruitment, so this was not shocking.
Animorphs was after a conceptual tour de force designed in the end for emotional toddlers. A sensible reader should feel insulted; in fact my twelve-year-old self had the wisdom to quit after a few dozen, only my ageing, sentimental mind supposed I ought to give them another go… learn from my mistakes, please. Do not buy
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worthless tripe
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