The Android (Animorphs #10)

FIRST REVIEW / MAR 15, 2015 The last time I reread this book, just a few years ago, I was reduced to ridiculous weeping over the ending. I looooove tales of alien species and their A.I. companions (don't get me started on the tears I've shed for the Geth in Mass Effect), so this is up my alley: somet......more

Marco’s old friend Erek is hanging out with the Sharing. But there’s clearly something weird going on with him. This is where we’re introduced to the Chee, the pacifist robots who try to fight the Yeerks in their own way. It also shows Marco’s rage and hatred towards the Yeerks. And that fight at th......more

The Android is an excellent example of the greatness of the Animorphs series. If you were going to jump in to this series rather than start from the first book, you could do worse than start here. In addition to the now-boilerplate introduction required to get such new readers up to speed, Applegate......more

The Android was always one of my favorite Animorphs books when I was a kid because, even before I knew what it was, I loved worldbuilding in fiction. This is one of the reasons I love serialized storytelling so much, because serialized stories (no matter the medium) are the ones that have the most r......more

Seriously what the fuck was Applegate smoking when she wrote this? It’s the “dogs are the souls of an ancient alien civilization” for me......more