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Animorphs

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Animorphs.

Cool friends fighting aliens...more accurately, the pariah of a fascist civilization, minutes before being eaten alive in front of said "ccol friends" persuades and then bioengineers human child soldiers to facilitate an end to an ill-conceived and failing war now reduced to unilaterally exterminating a parasitic, physically disabled species, itself undergoing a violent civil rights movement on their own planet based on their self-recognized flaws, struggling to realize its place in a universe where godlike beings exist and decide not to offer remedy(rules of the god game) and spectate while the parasites overwhelm all vulnerable species in the known universe.

The child soldiers agree to resist the parasites, but at least a minority of them believe genocide is the wrong answer. After being physically and emotionally tortured, shot, repeatedly disemboweled and having their limbs hacked or bitten off by hosts of the parasitic species, however, all of the child soldiers begin taking violent, morally devastating actions that end their lives as they know them.

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The beginning of the end,

what an insane series.

spoilerMarco abandons Nora to the yeerks to make things simpler for his biological mom and dad to get back together.

It's real dark. Cold blooded.

They boil a yeerk pool.

Tobias forced to explain how torture changes someone, since he's been through it.

There's so much foreshadowing and a lot a bit of of murder, man this was an exciting, desperate tale.

I love this whole last run, they capture the shock of Marco revealing himself so well.

If you aren't going to reread the whole series, you will not regret rereading this one.

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