The Departure (Animorphs #19)

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......more

You might as well subtitle this book Cassie Has the Worst Day Ever. Literally. Take a look at these totally not-at-all-made-up chapter titles to get an idea of how terrible Cassie’s day was: Chapter 1: Cassie Quits the Animorphs Chapter 2: Cassie Has the Most Awkward Exit Interview Ever Chapter 3: Cass......more

FIRST REVIEW / MAR 30, 2015 Such conflicted feelings about this one! Of course one of them would eventually break. It was inevitable, and I loved this book's revisiting of the most traumatising experiences they've had before, since it's a perfect little montage of likely what runs through their nightm......more

Come check out my 4 hour 35 minute deep dive into reading every single Animorphs book for the first time on YouTube. I recap and review all of the books from the main series: [URL not allowed]......more

One of the thrilling, groundbreaking books of this series which shows how brave the author is to blur that line between good and evil. There is so much gray in this book it's hard to believe. I loved that Cassie, the series' most kind-hearted character, proves that mercy and compassion is NOT wasted......more