I don't think Cassie would have been able to outright kill Tom though. She'd flinch, and she'd be killed instantly, and her battle morph is a fraction the size of Rachel's. I still think Rachel was the best choice to die based on what I said before. I say most people here want Cassie to have been the one because she's the least liked in general.
Everyone just wanted to have seen Tobias happy in his meadow with Rachel, Jake and Cassie married, and Marco living the good life.
It doesn't happen that way when you put teenagers through a world-shattering war. It's not a "good" war like WWII, it was a vicious moral battle all along the way. (Even WWII was horrible for a lot of people in it) I will say the end did not satisfy me, but only based on the fact it was short, had a lack of detail, and had a rushed feel to it. It was well planned however, and I don't flat out disagree with it. I would have liked a little less of a cliffhanger, though.
There's a million other fiction books out there that end in a sappy and happy ending. That's why I like Animorphs, it's fairly close to what real people would do in thost situations.
Just my 
Absolute Truth.
When I first read this ending I was either twelve or just barely thirteen, and I hated every book after they bailed to the camp. I was only kinda-maybe following the series out of "i've read over forty of these things" fan loyalty- I'd gone on to bigger and better (*ahem*WoT) books.
I went back and read the ebooks a few months ago and I have to say that I came away with a whole new appreciation of the series. I went in expecting to be wincing the whole way through and I discovered a lot of groan-inducing bad (briefly considered flying across the country to my mom's house just to burn my old copy of book 9 with evil hellfire) but a whole lot of "jesus-****-christ" awesome as well. If these things had been originally written for, say, the 18-24 crowd the series would have been mind-blowing.
However the awesomeness of this series has a lot to do with the fact that ****
does **** up. I extraordinarily love the fact that things FUBAR completely at the end, because it's in keeping with the series. They got away with incredible odds that tipped the believability scale (
fiction believability, anyway...) but when all hell broke loose into actual warfare they clung on and got their asses handed to them even with a very ambitious plan that used every ounce of luck they had.
And that, right there, was the epitome of the end- that ****ed-up of an ending? that was the
best they could swing. They won, and that was the happiest ending they were gonna have.
And it's awesome.
