The Invasion by Katherine ApplegateMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
#animorphs_reread
This wasn't even my first Animorphs book, it was #2 - The Visitor (Rachel). But for this project re-read, I decided to do it in the right order. Haha.
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5 teenagers were normal until they met Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul of the Andalite species.
Andalites - bluish in color; looks like a centaur (to me); has way way way advanced technology; you could say they're the heroic species because they kept on fighting the Yeerks.
Yeerks - like slugs; parasites; if they entered your head, they'll take over your brain and then you're done; antagonist specie
Prince Elfangor - his spaceship landed, or crashed, rather, at the exact time the 5 teenagers were passing by this construction site; he was badly wounded and was dying when they found him; he gave them the power to morph (an Andalite technology that the Yeerks weren't able to acquire)
Visser Three - ambitious Yeerk who wants to be Visser One soon; was able to possess an Andalite's body thus making him the only Yeerk (so far) who can morph
Controllers - human beings possessed by Yeerks in a forced way
Collaborators - human beings/species who weren't forced by Yeerks to be possessed; they sort of welcomed the idea of being possessed by them
The Invasion was narrated by Jake. Just Jake. They can't afford publishing their identities since that night at the construction site. Jake has four other friends: Marco, Tobias, Rachel, and Cassie.
Jake - the leader because as Tobias said: people listen to him and he knows how to plan; he wasn't thrilled about being in this whole mission of saving the Earth until he learned that Tom, his brother, was a Controller.
Rachel - Jake's cousin; the not-just-a-pretty girl; you don't mess with Rachel ;]
Cassie - the friend you wish you have haha; seriously this girl's really interesting and if you hate her, then I don't know what to do with you.
Marco - the funny one!; Jake's best friend; most practical person ever; his mom's dead and his dad's messed up (see funny people have terrible things beneath them); he was the last to say okay with the whole mission thing; he's smart, really, I suppose I like Marco more than Jake; he has the best lines haha; he came up with the name, Animorphs
Tobias - *sobs haha; most messed up family scenario; father's unknown; mom left him "a few years ago"; best character plot, in my opinion; he was the first to say yes to the whole mission thing; bullied at school (*sobs); favorite character
The Morphing Technology
Prince Elfangor gave the five teenagers the power to morph. It's pretty simple - you touch the animal, and as Tobias said - you have to want to become the animal - and then acquire its DNA. The DNA then stays with you, you only have to touch the animal once to have its DNA.
There is only one rule: never stay in a certain morph for more than 2 hours. If you stay for more than two hours, you'll be stuck in that morph forever and you won't be able to return to a human being.
*//spoiler//*
Tobias stayed for more than 2 hours in his red-tailed hawk morph (so yeah...) during that first "fight" with the Yeerks were they faced Visser Three again. They were able to get out of it alive, but they failed to save anyone, not even Jake's brother Tom.
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