#12booksof2025
The Animorphs series in general has been a highlight for me this year - originally published in 1997, Little Me was too busy reading Baby Sitters Club books to even give these a second look 🤣 and I really missed out! Better late than never!
The storylines are often bonkers and the themes are BIG and often heavy but there‘s always some banter and great friends to soften the blow…
so-soA competent adaptation of my most beloved YA series.
I found an Animorphs book in the wild (an op shop) and it was only a $1 - I knew going on a side mission between physio and work would be a good idea (I wanted the veggie pies from the deli and to see the newly renovated indie bookshop - fitting in an op shop was an added bonus)
pickI started this series a long time ago, but never finished it. The first book is still so good! Loved MacLeod Andrews' narration of the audiobook 😄
I'll have to try out the newer graphic novel adaptations next as I restart the series 🙂
pickI love that the Megamorphs books switch between all the Animorphs kids - it really adds to the drama and so much happens in this one. From getting flung back in time and eating trex meat around a campfire, to Magic School Bus and Hansen (lol) references to the Big Bang… there was a lot happening, that‘s barely scraping the surface.
Disappointing that the trex morph wasn‘t retained when they made it back to their time 🦖
pickThis book made me WHEEZE because I was laughing so hard - the yeerks have a major weakness and it‘s maple and ginger instant oatmeal. Jake had a monologue about oatmeal not playing a major role in famous historical battles and Rachel solved problems by going through walls in elephant morph and making it Visser Three‘s problem by throwing the oats into a yeerk pool and him in after it.
No notes.
“We can‘t back out now,” Marco said. “I‘ve 36 boxes of maple and ginger instant oatmeal at home, in easy open single serve pouches.”
Ahh yes, the well known Animorphs to hard core communist pipeline… come on in! the water is fine!
(Now if they‘d gone for Animorphs to vocal anti war activist pipeline, they might just be on to something)
pickngl Marco broke my heart in this one. His biggest heartbreak (his Mom‘s death) and closely guarded secret (she‘s actually alive and an unwilling human controller for a very high ranking Yeerk) previously only known by Jake - comes to light and Marco is left to deal with the consequences.
There‘s shark morphs and some lighted jail breaking of some parrots from a fast food chain - but this one was 💔😩
