Yeah, I kind of got annoyed at times. It was such an unresolved conflict. In each book he would go through a pattern:
1) Torn about being hawk-boy but dealing (usually because of Rachel).
2) Something happens that makes him utterly depressed about his predicament (ie: he kills for the first
time, he eats roadkill, he finds out that his long-lost cousin is really an evil alien warlord hell-bent on his
death, he gets tortured by a masochistic, narcissistic Yeerk...)
3) He mopes about his situation in endless train-of-thought passages (and Rachel comforts him).
4) Something happens where he is able to prove himself and he can come to grips with his situation.
5) He's perfectly fine being hawk-boy.
Somehow even though most books end with him content (whilst still a bit wistful) by the next time a book comes around with his narration, he's back at #1. I love Tobias, but after awhile...sheesh! Tone down the all the mope! I can only handle so much!!
Maybe that's why he only got a book on the second cycles.
