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This is one of my favorite books if not my favorite. This books offers a lot, bit the best thing it does is it never let's up. Plenty of levity, but no filler.


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The Sickness Animorphs #29 K A Applegate 9780590762625 Books Reviews

Everybody but Cassie gets sick, leaving her alone to fight on an important mission, only to come home to perform brain surgery on Ax because Andalites don't puke. Bird poop saves the day!

Notable moments and inconsistencies

This book is ghostwritten by Melinda Metz.

It's clear that the Yeerk Aftran has managed to start a peace movement somehow, but it's not clear how she was answering for not being in her host, who was supposed to be a young girl named Karen planted to watch the girl's dad and report on him to the Yeerks. It was never explained why Aftran managed to survive as long as she did in the Yeerk pool without being in her host.

Cassie again refers to her human form as her "human morph," which is inaccurate.

It's interesting that when Cassie has to do this mission all on her own, she assumes a lot of the roles of the others saying "let's do it!" like Rachel, making dumb jokes to herself like Marco, and leading the way/making decisions like Jake.

It's not clear why Cassie of all people was the one who never got sick. If the flu was so contagious, why didn't she or anyone else around them get it? Because it was a bit too convenient, this felt more constructed than it should.

Cassie, despite her experience doing veterinary care for animals, does not have the experience to do brain surgery. Cassie performs major surgery in a later book as well, and neither book includes realistic detail about blood loss or any mention of anesthesia. Despite being an alien and in a delusional state, there's no reason Ax would not have had some realistic pain reaction to having his head drilled into.
This book represented Cassie's personality very well.

I'm used to Rachel musing about her violent nature; Cassie wondering how peaceful she really is was an interesting analogue to that.

Cassie's sympathy for Yeerk sensory deprivation added something to the usual intro. Ax relishing the sensation of human morph was an interesting analogy that I'm glad Cassie brought up. I figured it was foreshadowing of Yeerks morphing.

The dance was comic relief. The main relationship development was that being liked by Jake helped Cassie feel good. "He's a popular type who doesn't care how plain she is" was reiterated.

Marco was right, something serious happened when they tried to do something fun.

At least Tidwell's interference was serious help rather than a just a convenient distraction or willfull ignorance on the part of observers. The series often seems to be guilty of plot holes of the latter variety.

It was clear that Illim became Tidwell's main companion. I took Tidwell's story as a reminder of why people were susceptible to The Sharing.

I can see how Marco thinks it's a trap to lure them in deeper, create a false sense of security. It's a another reminder of how I identify with his character.

Again, Cassie coached someone through a critical morph.

So there is some literal water in this pool. How do the Yeerks get away with taking it from the grid? Controllers at a utility? The water version of stealing cable or other such services? This all reminds me of the truck ship from #3 The Encounter. Maybe that couldn't make covert deliveries underground in an occupied area.

Rachel calling eels in the pipe a water slide sounds like Marco rubbing off on her.

"Oh god it's spreading" worked as a delay to that particular mission as well as a general challenge. Yamphut seeming flu-like may be a contrivance to hide evidence of aliens, but it's relatively believable, at least by the standards of this series.

I could tell Cassie wouldn't be able to pull off the surgery by herself. I'm reminded of a conversation about the series where it was said that #29 would have been an especially good time to tell the truth to the Animorphs' parents.

I thought an Animorph with a hostile Yeerk might be able to infiltrate the YPM. Since that didn't happen here, I wonder how it was done. Maybe an ordinary Yeerk/Controller went in as a double agent. That could be used to catch other YPM members. However, none of them would know what Aftran and Illim would know. I assume Aftran was smart enough to not tell other YPM members too much - and Illim too, but he wouldn't yet have had time to talk anyway. Since Visser Three wanted information, I can see how Aftran wasn't killed instantly, and the visser did hustle to take care of it. Often villains let heroes live in order to gloat and this backfires.

It was interesting to hear that Yeerks have some survivability in non-Kandrona water.

I figured Yeerks might rush to grab a host, as we see with Cassie in morph. That might be useful for new/random hosts instead of reinfestations and special hosts. I wonder how they go about getting a particular Yeerk for a particular host. I recall messages being sent to Esplin Yeerk-to-Yeerk in the Hork-Bajir Chronicles, but I wonder if that could be an everyday thing. The Yeerks would figure it out if someone gets the wrong host, so none of the slugs do that on purpose.

Aftran as a whale nothlit would have been a surprise without hindsight, so that seems well-written. Yes, that's a very good idea all around. it seems they're trying not to think about David. This is one of the few times he's been alluded to since the trilogy was wrapped up.

This book showed team dynamics via the lack thereof.
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This is one of my favorite books if not my favorite. This books offers a lot, bit the best thing it does is it never let's up. Plenty of levity, but no filler.