Most mature book

[tobiasthehawk]

I was thinking about this while I was reading Visser. I believe  this book does more to appeal to the older crowd then any other books. It deals with death, drugs, relationship issues and so many other "adult" things better then any of the other books. Can anyone think of any of the other books that come close to this? I remember this being the last Animorph book I read before I fell out for a couple of years.

[Essam 293]

Megamorphs #3 dealt a lot with the past human wars by placing the Animorphs in them, so I think you might enjoy that. There's also #19, 21, 29, 30, 31, 38, 49, 50 which were also some of my favourites because of how much more mature they were for a kids series. They reflected more on the type of war the Animorphs were stuck in and the difficult decisions they had to deal with, whether it was for the world, or for the people personally affected by the lives that they lived.

#46 especially (part of the final arc of #45-54) dealt with the Yeerks manipulating the humans to start their own world war to weaken them as a race to take over, and #47 paralleled the fight for the free Hork-Bajir Colony with the Civil War of Jake's Great Grand Father, so those might be of a interest to you as well.

[wolfev]

The Hork Bajir Chronicles were pretty serious. Also I thought that 21 got really serious.

[Nateosaurus]

Pretty sure Truth said them all, lol

[Myitt]

#41 also has Jake waking up in a dystopian Yeerk-controlled future, that one was pretty dark.

For the record I really liked Visser, it really was one of the more mature books.  Seriously...a crack addict whose Yeerk keeps giving her drugs, a Holocaust survivor as a host, an Iraqi soldier, not to mention several brutal murders and interspecies um...relations XD  The nature of humanity and love and all that. 

[filmstu2005]

All those books mentioned were very dark and mature books. What about the Conspiracy? That was pretty crazy, Tom trying to kill their Dad and Jake probably trying to kill Tom. Especially when Tom was going to kill him with the knife? It was a filler, but still made note of the dark change in their lives as Animorphs.

[Gumby]

I think thew Conspiracy, the beginning, alot of the 40-54 books, #33, #10 for the gore.

[Hylian Dan]

The style of the writing in Visser and The Ellimist Chronicles was a bit more advanced than the rest of the series. Visser might be the most "mature" of the books, how it explored the humanity of a cold, twisted villain, and showed how Eva was able to connect with her as a mother. It really delved into the core strengths and weaknesses of humanity itself and it didn't stray from more adultish content.

The Ellimist Chronicles wasn't quite as dark, but the structure of the story and the themes it contained were fairly complex. The tone of the story seemed more mature in that it was more thoughtful and reflective, less in-your-face action/entertainment. It was very majestic in a somewhat detached way. It had a great deal of depth, with themes like playing God, the Ellimist being a brilliant loser, the parallels between the Ketrans' game and the Ellimist and Crayak's game, the way the story is framed by Rachel's death, and her asking whether she made a difference, what worth her life had.

[V2113]

I'll tell you what I think when my mom finishes reading the series, which will be when I'm like, 40.