Spring 2020 (Feb);

I feel like this is the book where I started noticing we either have inconsistencies with how Ax is portrayed per book, or that it's how the certain character pick up what he's saying/doing. My mad props love continues to exist, of course for Rachel forever in this novel. Is anyone at all surprised.

I was glad to see us come full circle with getting to the last Animorph Pov first set, with Marco. He was probably my least enthused one, though. I find Marco to be too much the child version of the class clown/bad boy who makes me want to roll my eyes and ignore him a lot. I'm not too good at putting up with people like him, their humor (that they think is funny and keep spouting even when no one around them laughs at all), and his constant flipflop hot-cold of emotions.

I was right in the prediction the moment they said Marco's mom wasn't alive, but there was no body, that she'd turn up as a host of some significant import. I do find it sigh-worthy that Marco and Jake decided to keep it a secret. I'm sure that won't actually be a problem later at all. (Also? This was a way too convenient way to make the least-wanting-to-be-an-Animorph character have-to-be. Especially when Jake, and Rachel are both already tied to it that same way, too.

I know this is going to be a continuing trend because body snatchers is the name of the alien game in these tiny child heroes vs. the evil alien's books, but I'm definitely flip-floppy about it.)

I loved the ants encounter, and I think this is about when I realized one of the things I love best about the books so far is how much education about zoology is being quietly, carefully given to the reader unendingly in a no-fear fashion where unless you're actually noticing it, you're not noticing it, because it's just kids talking about the facets of animal physiology & culture. ( )

** spoiler alert ** One of few that I remember holding in my hands as a kid and reading. Marco is definitely one of the stronger characters. Deus Ex Politica there at the end. ( )

Fun fluff with moments of seriousness. ( )

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