The Journey (Animorphs #42)

They can't seriously be dealing with the helmacrons a third time,

knowing they're willing to work with the yeerks,

knowing that they're a death-save hivemind,

knowing /definitively/ that they don't keep their promises,

AND having acknowledged from the start of the book that they know the animorphs are human and what a security problem that is,

and then end with gassing their spaceship up again and letting them go /even as they try to steal the escafil AGAIN/. You can't be serious.

I don't know how to solve the issue of keeping them alive so they don't add to the hivemind (although with most of them dead in the water- or plasma I guess- that bird has already flown), but they could have at least put the survivors in a closed aquarium and show more smashed their ship to at least TRY to plug their info leak. I enjoyed this book even with the helmacrons' inclusion, but that stupid choice this far into the series loses a star. show less

Um, craziness again. The Animorphs encounter that very very tiny alien race the Helmacrons again. The aliens steal the Escafil device and then during a confrontation when the Animorphs try to get it back- the aliens go up Marco's nose. Yes, literally. Where they threaten to do serious bodily harm. So of course the Animorphs figure out how to shrink themselves and follow. It's very much like a Magic School Bus adventure. It's very gross and nonsensical and horrific. Long story short, they end up as morphed sharks- so microscopic they are swimming in Marco's bloodstream and watch his T-cells engulf other cells. (How they can see in the dark as sharks I'm not sure). Also there's a subplot where Marco is chasing down a kid who spied on them show more morphing in a back alley before the Helmacron encounter and took a photo. Marco's trying to steal the camera to destroy evidence but is thwarted by the kid's dog (a pit bull type). It all turns out okay in the end, but I won't tell you how because for me that was the best part. I was alternately rolling my eyes and cringing through the inner-body experience, but then when the Animorphs finally exited and found themselves still smaller than grains of sand and in an unknown place, with Marco unconscious maybe dead, that got interesting again. Also Marco was acting very out-of-character but there was a good explanation for that (which also was problematic in a way but I was willing to overlook it).

from the Dogear Diary show less

Fantastic Voyage Animorphs style

marco got rabies??!

A short comment for every book of the series until I get a chance to re-read them. All three of my sons and I loved this series and read every single book - I even bought every single book (most, but not all, used; some through school book sales). I'm excited to re-read them to see how the five main characters develop and to watch all the different transformations again.

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