Animorphs #37: Svakheten

by Elise Smith

Other authorsMichael Grant (Author), Katherine A. Applegate (Author), Jørn Roeim (Translator), David B. Mattingly (Cover artist), Tonya Alicia Martin (Editor)
Paperback, 2002

Description

Animorphs RM is an exciting series for young adult readers about five teens who are given the power to morph into any animal they touch and then to absorb its DNA. This power is granted them by a dying Andalite alien named Elfangor, who also warns the teens that Earth is being threatened secretly by a group of aliens called Yeerks. This high-interest series is currently a successful television show and will be sure to intrigue even the most reluctant readers.

Original language

English

Original publication date

2000-01

Publication

[Oslo] Gyldendal Tiden 2002

Pages

121

ISBN

8205300801 / 9788205300804

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Rating

(72 ratings; 3.3)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Cheryl_in_CC_NV
A short comment for every book of the series until I get a chance to re-read them. All three of my sons and I loved this series and read every single book - I even bought every single book (most, but not all, used; some through school book sales). I'm excited to re-read them to see how the five
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main characters develop and to watch all the different transformations again.

The best books appeal to *readers* universally - not children versus adults. These may not be quite worthy of the adjective 'best' but they do have that crossover appeal.
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LibraryThing member nx74defiant
I liked kick ass Rachel learning that going in fighting isn't always the best plan.
LibraryThing member chuff
Not bad! Liked it.

The writing style of this book was too punchy, almost made me think it was authored by a man.
Some anachronisms like the word Yes! in the text and single-word sentences in the narration contributed to that impression.

All in all, the plot itself was pretty insane and high-octane,
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more like an Andy Remic book than a Young Adult novel in the Animorphs series. My one complaint is that I would have liked the involvement of the building that proves important to be made part of the plot before it is just randomly supplied by Tobias when asked (Applegate normally does a great job of introducing such elements early in the story to make their eventual utility to the gang more understandable and sensible to the reader).

Were the whole series written in this style by this author (Elise Smith, ghostwriter), we would lose significant character development of Applegate, but would gain in some of the action-packed plots she is capable of giving us.

On an amusing note, Visser Three morphs in this book into an "Unnamed putrid flesh creature," according to Wikipedia.
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