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Animorphs Read-Through Book 4 (Whale Morphs) Part 2: There's really bad bad guys and less bad bad guys, and apparently Innis Two Two Six is a less bad bad guy

I appreciate Rachel being ready to call 911, but there’s actually a wide range of reasons someone might pass out for a moment that aren’t 911 worthy. Side note, it is wild that kids aren’t really taught first aid as a routine everyone-does-it thing. It’s not like basic first aid takes that long. It can be rolled into science or health or whatever.

Very sad that Tobias didn’t get caught by his romantic interest. Maybe they’re not meant to be.

The problem with partnering people up in a five person team…

Gosh, I wonder what type of being that we know of isn’t human and uses thought speech.

What… what do you mean it’s not speaking in words? What is it speaking in?

I just realized: the only constraint on their morphing that’s affecting the narrative is the two hour limit, which Applegate has been getting a lot of mileage out of. But Elfangor referenced other risks that he didn’t have time to explain. Ax would know though. So maybe we’ll get more things for the kids to worry about!

I also just realized: I don’t think they mentioned Kadrona rays even once in the last book. Which make sense. It didn’t really come up.

I do appreciate how this series is clearly meant to be interpretable if you read it out of order. Or don’t remember shit from the last book.

The series that is the absolute best for that is Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series. Most books can just be read whenever. There is no continuity other than the setting and Death. The first book I read was The Hogfather, which was like the 20th book in the series or something, and it was fine.

D’awww, they’re all on board for “ok, well if it’s an Andalite of course we have to do a rescue.”

Is the next one going to be a Marco POV? I want a Marco POV.

I still don’t know what they told their parents to make them be chill about camping out in a cave last book, and I don’t know what they told them this time to let them be out at the ocean (and we have no idea how far away they live from the ocean and we do know none of them drive) after dark.

Can I tell which coast they’re on based on the moon? Presumably it’s a new moon because it’s visible in the evening rather than the morning, and it’s setting, and the direction it’s setting in would be west, and it sounds like it’s setting over the ocean. Implies west coast?

If they’re in California I think they might be acting overly paranoid about not mentioning their state. There’s a million people in California.

Well. Can’t be too careful I guess.

Apparently the red-tailed hawk range suggests they’re not in North Dakota, but not much else. Good choice of bird.

The “a million people in California” was of course supposed to be a generic large number, not a precise sum. It’s 40 million actually.

We can do some north-south narrowing down if we get a water temperature.

Unless they’re fabricating some details to hide their true location. That would be smart.

Interestingly, I think Rachel respects Marco a lot more than Cassie does, even though she doesn’t act respectfully towards him.

Oh! That does actually explain why it’s Cassie and Tobias.

I still can’t believe it’s called The Sharing. What a creepy sounding name.

I wonder if we ever find out why Mom Chapman wanted to yeerk.

Oh shit. Well they have to get to Ax before Visser Three does.

Fucking Yeerks. They have every reason to believe this is a normal group of teenagers just messing around. But they’re shooting.

…I think in general fresh water fish can’t live in salt water and vice versa, but trout… don’t they have some fresh water/salt water life cycle thing?

“That fool should not have been shooting.” Thank you, Innis Two Two Six, voice of reason.