And Jake-who has always expressed discomfort over his leadership position-once again hints that he’s done with trying to be the leader of this group. Cassie becomes more and more moralistic and interested in non-violence. So Rachel becomes more and more unfocused and aggressive. While some of this is ghostwriter syndrome, mostly it’s that they are starting to suffer from the stress of being the only six people on the planet who are fighting back against an invading alien force. They are lapsing into almost caricatures of their respective roles and ideologies. In many ways, The Familiar recapitulates a lot of the themes that have been building and already touched upon in previous books. It’s shocking for the explicitness of its imagery: this is not a series for children anymore this is definitely YA. And as the tide of the battle turns against them, they start losing limbs. The Animorphs have inflicted damage on the Yeerk troops, but the latter are practically inexhaustible, while the former are six adrenaline-fuelled-but-scared kids. The Familiar opens up, as several other recent books have done, in the middle of a big, chaotic battle. Animorphs has become so dark! I feel like a broken record, like I say this every review, but wow.
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