It’s rare enough for a war/adventure story to humanize the enemy so much, to show such sympathy for the “evil bad guys”, rarer still in children’s fiction, which in my experience is even more black and white. This book more than any of the rest of the series, to be honest, is what I think of every time I can’t believe this is a children’s series. Both of them, two people from opposite sides of a war, only become more confused and conflicted as time goes on, and they ask each other genuinely difficult questions. Just a conversation between the two of them that does more to grey things up than almost anything we’ve seen so far. Most of the book acts like a sort of bottle episode. And she can’t understand why Cassie hasn’t killed her yet, despite having every chance and motive to do so. She walks away, promising Jake she won’t use her powers if not for the cause.Īnd then she and a little girl, who is also a Controller, are trapped in the woods, and she knows Cassie can morph. This understandably upsets the others, but she doesn’t care. She doesn’t want to be the one who pays the price anymore. This is the one where Cassie quits the Animorphs because she’s finding herself willing to do more and more horrible things in the name of defeating the Yeerks, and she doesn’t want to become that person. It made a HUGE impression on me as a kid. I have misremembered or forgotten entire books and plotlines from this series, something which I’ve discovered over and over again in this re-read of mine.
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