3:21am August 23, 2014

Animorphs reread, book #3

I was reading these first few books in the hospital while my brain was all messed up from meningitis, so there’s a lot of details I don’t remember properly.

But wow #3 so amazing.

I love Tobias.

I love the fact that he has to struggle over his situation, being part hawk and part human.

I love the fact they don’t gloss over the bad parts.

I love the fact he has to struggle with whether he loses his humanity if he gives in to eating prey and stuff.  Although I did keep just wishing he would eat the prey already.

I also wished he had struck up something with that female hawk.

But most of all I just liked the complexity of the character.  I liked the human and hawk parts being intermixed, not neatly separable.  I liked all of it.  I loved it.  I want more of this.

I’ve made it very clear already that he and Cassie are my favorite characters so far.  For very different reasons.

I do identify with both of them.

As a teenager I was in a situation where I thought I might have to split and live in the woods, and if I’d had morphing powers I might have accidentally-on-purpose morphed into a deer or something and stayed that way.  Some of us have already discussed if that’s what Tobias did when he became a hawk.

And the way everyone worries about him, almost over-worries… too familiar.  Being treated as fragile, as about to fall apart any second, not safe.

Anyway, I loved this book, even though I don’t remember the plot at all.  (I tend to remember characters and themes first, plots last.)

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