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Animorphs #19: The Departure - Community Reviews back

by Katherine Applegate
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A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it 5 years ago
Cassie has been a difficult one, she raises the questions that get in the way of the simple narrative of Animorphs vs. Yeerks. Cassie sees the grey areas and, in her words, believes that all life is sacred. This book gets to the heart of Cassie's dilemma as a fighter and a preserver of life. It is...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 9 years ago
I almost gave The Departure five stars because, my goodness, this is a good one, definitely one of my favorites as a kid and still one of my favorites now. The tension and the danger feel real. The story is well-paced and reveals interesting details about the war between Yeerks, Andalites and huma...
Mike
Mike rated it 11 years ago
Oh, Katherine Applegate, Michael Grant, what would I do without you?Animorphs has always been an important series to me. It was the first series I read that wasn't an I-Can-Read book, the first one where not every word was analyzed in order to develop kids' vocabulary. I'd never seen anything like i...
Nemo @ The Moonlight Library
Nemo @ The Moonlight Library rated it 12 years ago
Brought to you by The Moonlight Library!After a battle where Cassie can’t tell if she killed a Hork-Bajir before or after Jake called them off, Cassie has had enough of being an Animorph. She quits. No more morphing, no more fighting, and hopefully no more nightmares of being the greatest land-based...
Nemo @ The Moonlight Library
Nemo @ The Moonlight Library rated it 12 years ago
Brought to you by The Moonlight Library!After a battle where Cassie can’t tell if she killed a Hork-Bajir before or after Jake called them off, Cassie has had enough of being an Animorph. She quits. No more morphing, no more fighting, and hopefully no more nightmares of being the greatest land-based...
Kiwiria
Kiwiria rated it 17 years ago
This is the first Animorphs to really touch upon the moral dilemma of yeerks vs. everybody else - the same moral dilemma as that of "The Host". Are the Yeerks really evil, or are they just following their instincts - no more 'hating' their victims than a predator hates its food? Interesting... and t...
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