The beginning of the end,
what an insane series.
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Marco abandons Nora to the yeerks to make things simpler for his biological mom and dad to get back together.
It's real dark. Cold blooded.
They boil a yeerk pool.
Tobias forced to explain how torture changes someone, since he's been through it.
There's so much foreshadowing and a lot a bit of of murder, man this was an exciting, desperate tale.
I love this whole last run, they capture the shock of Marco revealing himself so well.
If you aren't going to reread the whole series, you will not regret rereading this one.
I've been listening through all of the audiobooks since December and just finished this one. I never managed to get through the whole series as a kid, so this one was a first for me and Wow.
Safe to say after this one that the safe episodic status quo has been completed shattered, I know the series does a good job with serializing most of its big elements to be regular parts of the series like the chee and the elemist and krayak etc, but this one definitely feels like the start of the end game
You nailed the analysis here. This is definitely where things get real and then keep getting crazier.
There are a few points where the storied naive adventure spirit tries to reestablish a foothold, but there is an irreversible, looming atmosphere of perilous, mournful tunnel-vision insanity from this point forth.
It's very impressive how faithful the authors were able to remain to their vision for the series and their empathy for child soldiers and war=bad.
Yikes. strap in!