I’ll always remember Ax and Cinnabons and cigarette butts, and then the

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later horror of that one Shakira getting his tail cut off.

Real opposite ends of the memory spectrum there.

It really bothered me when Ax listenibg to the andalites instead of Jake when I first read this book, I didn’t understand how onerous or tangible culture was for another decade or so until I started traveling.

It’s also pretty scary when

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they start disappearing out of nowhere and nobody even had a theory as to what has happened to the disappeared Animorphs for several chapters.

As much as time travel Deus ex machina stuff gets my eye rolls going, I very much enjoy a lot of the arcs here, especially ax’s burgeoning identity crisis.