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Loading... The Sickness (Animorphs, Book 29) (edition 1999)by K. A. Applegate
Work InformationThe Sickness by K. A. Applegate
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Fun fluff series that gets less and less fluff over time. ( ) Not bad at all, especially for a ghost-written book. The real author is Melinda Metz of 'Roswell High' fame. This book acts as a follow-up to 'The Departure'. Aftran, the Yeerk who was convinced by Cassie to seek out another path for the Yeerk species, has been accused of treason and will be interrogated by Visser Three within a few days. Cassie finds an unexpected Controller ally, but before the mission can go off there is a problem (of course!). Ax comes down with a sickness that is in some way attached to morphing. He runs a high fever and is likely to die without brain surgery. The other Animorphs are susceptible to it, but, for reasons of convenience, the illness behaves like a normal flu virus. Cassie has to carry out the impossible - rescue Altran or risk exposing themselves and the Yeerk Peace Movement, and save Ax's life with obviously no real surgical knowledge, let alone any Andalite physiology. I'm not taking any points away, because I did like the book, but Erek and the Chee are also conveniently useless in times like these. They can project holograms, but they can't restrain an ill person from running out of their sick bed because of their programming? This book also fares better when I think about what's coming. Animorphs Next: 'Elfangor's Secret' Previous: 'The Experiment' Rachel is always bold and gung-ho, but I think Cassie showed true bravery in this episode. Ax becomes deathly ill, and all the other Animorphs get sick also, leaving Cassie the only one who can save Aftran- a Yeerk on the side for peace, who knows all about the Animorphs and has been captured, about to be interrogated by Visser Three and spill all. Cassie moves desperately, sneaking into the Yeerk pool by morphing a Yeerk herself and hiding in the brain of a Controller who's also part of the peace movement. You'd never think she'd get away with what she has to do down in the Yeerk pool, but she does. By the skin of her teeth. Later in the story Cassie allows a Yeerk into her own brain. The same one that she came to know in The Departure. The other really crazy part of the story is when Cassie has to do brain surgery on Ax in attempt to save his life. ... and it sounded way too easy. It's a dark storyline, but I couldn't put it down. Really a lot of depth, the stuff Cassie was thinking about: why should the Yeerks be denied sight, sound, taste, etc? also the realization that many of them simply don't want to be part of the war to dominate Earth. Oh, and I really liked the ending, where Aftran ended up when they realized she had no place to survive as a wanted Yeerk. The solution was nice. from the Dogear Diary no reviews | add a review
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The Animorphs' alien friend Ax is in trouble. He's come down with a virus called "yamphut", and it's making him very sick. The Animorphs discover the virus could be deadly--but they can't take an "alien" to the hospital. They need to come up with a plan--or lose their friend forever. No library descriptions found. |
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