![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Three months later, I was head-over-heels. That’s what I thought, anyway-until a copy of that fateful book, The Invasion, strayed across my path once again early in 2015. I didn’t read silly books for kids anymore. I moved on to writers like Dickens, Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner. What wasn’t to love?īut then (as tends to happen), I grew up. The premise of the series, at its core, was simple: five teenagers are given the power to transform into animals so they can fight a race of parasitic aliens who have come to Earth in order to enslave mankind. I proceeded to devour every Animorphs book I could get my hands on-including the fateful first entry, The Invasion. ![]() Why was one of major characters a red-tailed hawk? Why was dialogue sometimes set off by brackets instead of quotation marks when the characters spoke? (They communicate by telepathy after transforming into animals I later learned that these brackets demarcated this “thought-speak” from regular spoken dialogue.)ĭespite these questions, I was hooked. Enthralled by the cover image of a boy transforming into an orca, I couldn’t resist.Įven though every book in the series makes an effort to summarize the basic plot in its opening pages, I was thoroughly lost when I finally got hold of The Mutation. My first encounter with the Animorphs series was as a kid in the late 90s a carton of orange juice that my family had recently purchased offered by mail order a free copy of the recently released thirty-sixth book ( The Mutation, which I now know is one of the least-accessible mid-series entries). ![]()
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