Series re-read#45 The Revelation

[buffyangellvr23]

Marco's dad has discovered z-space. Which is a big problem. The Yeerks want him for themselves, understandably. But Marco isn't about to stand by and let his dad get infested. But, after he saves his dad, they have to find a way to get the Yeerks to stop chasing them. This means faking their deaths. As if all this isn't enough, they find out that

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[staysleeping]

I really liked this book. It’s far more interesting than the previous books have been for a while. Pros for the book include:

+ Marco’s crazy driving
+ Rachel and Marco teaming up
+ Ax’s awesome piloting skills, eating oreos, making fun of human technology
+ The Chee :)
+ Also really dug the very last page of the book and the little Jake/Ax interaction.

Things that I didn’t really like were:

- Things moved way to quickly.
- I wish they had mentioned something with Jake talking about his parents freaking out about the fact that Marco and his dad had gotten “gunned down by unidentified intruders.” I mean come on I know if my best friend and one of their parents had gotten gunned down my parents would be flipping out. They didn’t even mention a funeral. Anyways, not the biggest deal, just me being weird about it :|

[dither_spaz]

I love everything about this book.

[mattiris]

Your comment + that icon = creepy as all hell.

[dither_spaz]

I get that a lot. :)

[stretch]

I actually really liked this book, too. It was exciting to see the entire direction of the series change. And I had always felt awful for Marco's dad.

[isteillia]

it kinda bothered me that once Marco said Nora was prolly in on it from the get go, Marco's dad was all "Ok" *goes back to loving Eva with no repercussions of his latest marriage being a possible scam*

Also, I loved how Ax just strolls into the kitchen and grabs oreos.

"'Orr-ee-oohh!'

Sometimes it's easy to forget the boy is a warrior."

best line. ever.

[rena_librarian]

Yeeeeah, but I figured Marco's dad confessing to Eva that he had gotten remarried and the whole crying-anger-love fest that that conversation had to have been deemed too "adult" of a concept to actually be portrayed, and also I kind of thought both of them kind of decided to Suck It Up for the remainder of the war (which was obviously either going to be over soon or come to a point where it wouldn't matter, being dead or infested) and work on the nuances of all that later.

You know, the sort of stuff fanfiction is made of. =)

I do wonder if Nora really WAS in on it from the beginning, and if Marco's dad ever considered that Marco only said that to make him feel better.

[anijen21]

Okay, so to start, I think most of my problem with the final arc is how random and uncausal everything is. Is that a word? What I mean is, every book from #45 and beyond gets a little more desperate, a little more climactic, a little more tense, but so little of it is actually connected in a narrative sense. Like Marco's dad doesn't find out about Marco's *true identity* because he had to, because the Animorphs decided it was time, because of something related to what's been happening. He discovered Z-Space at work. Completely unrelated to the war. I mean, I guess part of it is the fact that the books themselves are like 95% episodic, with that wonderful 5% thread running from book to book, but in truth each book is its own unique, distinct thing. So even though SHIT'S ABOUT TO GET REAL, it gets real in a lot of coincidental, unrelated ways

[anijen21]

Okay so idk, to answer your question, this kind of pisses me off: "When I stopped talking, the first thing he said was that he had to call Nora." 38
That just feels like a slap in the face. Like your son just admits that the last two years or whatever of his life have been a living hell and all you can think about is your new wife, ouch.

This: "What do you mean you can't tell me? I'm your father. I tell you what to do." 42

[rayerai]

Okay and like, I get that we need Visser One to come to Earth so Marco can save his mom, but what was the Yeerk's purpose in doing that? Wouldn't it have been easier just to starve her out on Councilor-Whatever's Pool Ship and reassign her host to another Yeerk? Or kill her, due to the information stored in Eva's head? I mean obviously that ending is a lot more bleak, but seriously, what's the point in bringing her back to Earth and letting Visser Three, who's already been on trial for his incompetence in handling the planet's infestation, kill her? And once he indeed bungles her execution, WHY ISN'T HE ALSO EXECUTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS CONVICTION?

this series, I swear to God.

I thought it was a humiliation/extra mental torture angle. Let her rival do her in, and in front of everyone, in front of the foods! So I didn't have much of a problem with that.

I do have more of a problem with V3 jumping V2 to get to V1; what is V2 thinking? Why doesn't V2 do more to capitalize on V3 effing up V1's execution? Where the hell IS V2 (or at

[anijen21]

that explanation makes a lot of sense. It's definitely in the Yeerk character to care more about pomp and theatricality than effectiveness. WHY JUST KILL HER WHEN WE CAN MAKE A *SHOW* OF IT?

and yes omg, Visser Two was such a waste. I mean judging by the way he's portrayed in the next book...I don't know, he just doesn't really fit in the canon of high-ranking Vissers. Visser Three is a sociopath, Visser One is a viciously cold-minded, calculating villain, Visser Four may have fucked up Leera but he also fucked up the Animorphs enough so the only option to deal with him was to erase his host from existence and Visser Two?

Visser One Prime's cheerleader.

An illustrious, fecund career of sucking up to your boss. Wonder what's keeping Vissers Five through Nine back so far, maybe they just need to kiss somemore Taxxon ass.