Comments | animorphs: Series re-read #54 The Beginning

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Series re-read #54 The Beginning

Jun 08, 2009 16:08

This of course is the final book in the series. The Animorphs make their final stand, force the Yeerks into surrender, and we learn of their lives after the war ends.One of the team pays with her life and the others become world famous. Then we're left with a cliffhanger ending. I don't know if anyone actually liked this book but a lot of fans ( Read more... )

series re-read, book: 54 (the beginning)

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pairatime June 9 2009, 00:42:07 UTC

yes I second that, or even have the year after bit but not the whole The One thing that sucked if you give me a story give me the whole story or at least plan to

kon_no_yume June 10 2009, 18:03:27 UTC

Yea, the whole "The One" was the only part that made me annoyed. Mostly because we'd never heard of him before. If it had be Crayak now, that would have been cool.

pairatime June 10 2009, 19:57:00 UTC

yes that would have been cool they didn't she do that

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teacoat June 9 2009, 02:35:35 UTC

I guess I'm in the minority, but I really liked the ending. I felt that it was a good way of illustrating that for Jake, Marco, and Tobias life could never really "go back to normal." Cassie was able to find a purpose - one that suited her much better than the war ever did - but the war had changed the others to the point where nothing else could really be enough. And by leaving the book at a cliffhanger K.A. left them suspended in that state. It doesn't matter whether they survived or not. If they did survive, they would have just gone on to the next mission and the next after that. And if they didn't survive then they certainly didn't go on to do anything else with their lives.

That's my take on it anyway.

fiiishy June 9 2009, 05:04:50 UTC

Agreed. It actually took me a couple years to accept it as a great ending. I was all hung up on the cliffhanger ending and even Rachel dying... but now at 23 years old I can really see how insanely young they were when they got sucked into this mess. They were too young, got sucked in too deep and too early in their lives and I do believe they could never go back to normal life.

With the exception of Cassie, apparently, but even her I have doubts with. Whatever her story is after the end of this book, I don't know that she lives her life in peace.

teacoat June 9 2009, 06:01:06 UTC

I agree about Cassie, but for different reasons than the others. I feel like she would never really be able to forgive herself for fighting in the war in the first place. She understood why it had to be done of course, but that never made the actual doing easier on her. While it was actually going on she could say "This is necessary, I'm saving the human race." But afterwords she has plenty of time to dissect every little decision and mull over every life that she took.

jedifreac June 12 2009, 04:22:09 UTC

That, and being the only one of them to survive. For some reason I don't think her fiance, what's his face--Ronnie--could ever really understand what she went through.

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anijen21 June 9 2009, 19:11:26 UTC

wait arbron got poached?

jesus h christ I need to catch up already

karma_fucked June 10 2009, 09:46:12 UTC

ummm, i really, really wish it focused more on life after the war than it did. i am incredibly fascinated with that. there was so much it didn't mention, like rachel's dad (dan) and the auxiliary animorphs ( ... )

falenimortal117 June 15 2009, 07:31:25 UTC

Thinking about this book makes me get all misty-eyed. It was such a huge part of my childhood....when it ended I felt like I'd lost a friend.

I agree that a cliffhanger ending isn't so bad...the whole "The One" thing kinda bothers me though.

Also, I am intrigued by the details of post-war. Actually, I love the whole concept of what happens AFTER big scary events. Like sometimes you read books/watch movies where people survive, like, being captured and tortured. What I always want to know is what their life was after that - trying to cope with normal things like going to work and hanging out with friends and going home to a quiet house at night...can you really handle that after something so traumatic? That's the kind of thing that always interests me...

Every time I read the book, I cry like a baby at Rachel's death :( I don't think that will ever change - at least not for hard-core fans, lol

sour_boyy March 29 2010, 05:07:53 UTC

I always cry when Marco describes Jake's visits to Rachel's memorial to Cassie. That image is too sad to bear. Sorry, had to throw that out there.

geritar June 11 2009, 18:28:14 UTC

Okay. Here I go ( ... )

my comment was too long, so here's the rest... geritar June 11 2009, 18:28:31 UTC

And finally, the One. I'm not sure if this came out of nowhere or not. After all, I pointed out in several books (all of them were Jake's, I think) that there was random evil sentences in bold after certain chapters that could've been alluding to The One ( ... )

Re: my comment was too long, so here's the rest... falenimortal117 June 15 2009, 07:36:15 UTC

That quote is priceless XD

I think, for as much as we all hated the ending we have, a pretty, neat, happily-ever-after ending (like Harry Potter) would have infuriated us even MORE.

My guess? We're all just angsty that our favourite series had to end XD

But no, this ending could have been improved.

No matter how it ended, though, it would still make me cry every time. I love this series...probably more than is safe XD

*rolls eyes* Why do you ALWAYS have to say that!? ;)