Animorph book you don't like

[Noelle]

There is a big difference between disliking the book and disliking the characters in the book.  Even though I don't like Cassie, I liked 19.  I hated Cassie even more in her last book but it was still a good book.

 But I think Buffa-human was probably the worst.  That or the second Helmacron book.  When I read then I'm just like "...why?"

[SkyMorpher]

I only realized the trouble with The Hidden as time went on...I have more problems with it now. The Unexpected was too isolated, and whoever wrote it failed geography. Going to Sydney from the west coast of the US would not land you in the Outback. I don't like 54 either, the ending. I enjoyed The Other, but they should have brought the other Andalites back later.

[Chad32]

What keeps you from getting to Australia from the West Coast? There's a lot more land between the East Coast to Austrailia than the West Coast. Not that it was officially stated they lived in California in the first place at that point.

[RYTX]

I think she meant that syndney is east of the outback, so going to there from CA, you wouldn't pass over the Outback.
course she was getting that from a bag, maybe they connected to it from the Aussie west coast. Unlikey, but anything to explain errors, right?
Just to jump on, while I did like 19, I also hated most the books that never continued on things, 40, YPM, the twin, much, much lots

[Chad32]

The Outback is only part of Australia? I thought it was the whole thing. I guess I don't know enough either.

[BlackMan90]

I freaking love the Buffahuman idea. The actual book was meh, but the idea was great. And the image of the Bull with the Chapman head freaked me the **** out.

[Chad32]

The idea of an animal morphing a sentient being and gaining sentience itsself is interesting, but the way it was done flies in the face of how we believed the device to work, and it was quite the weird book. It was also the book where Cassie said letting the Yeerks get the box would be the worst thing ever, then not too long afterwards she defends letting the Yeerks get the box.

[Morilore]

I actually really liked the Buffahuman book, because the whole atmosphere of it was "wow we accidentally stumbled on a huge ethical and philosophical conundrum, let's think about this OH WAIT WE ARE BEING CHASED BY YEERKS RIGHT NOW NO TIME FOR THIS JUST KILL IT AND RUN."  That's the way real Serious Questions pop up a lot of the time - when you are in the middle of something else and have no time to deal with them, so you just try to get out of the problem and then it just sits in the back of your head.

[AniDragon]

Buffahuman was bad bad bad bad. Australia book almost made me quit reading the series. I read the summary and thought "why am I still reading these books? they're so stupid!" and though I kept buying the books, I actually stopped reading them for about 3 or 4 months because I really didn't want to read the Australia book. Of course, joke was on me, because the book immediately after it is one of my favourites, go figure. But yeah, that was definitely the lowest point of the series, and is ironically right before **** gets real.

[Chad32]

I'm pretty sure you can skip the Australia book and not miss a thing. That's probably its biggest saving grace. It likely counts for other bad books.

[tobiasfangor95]

Let's face it. We go to war not only to win it, but to achieve justice and peace.
That being said, most countries treat it like a massacre.
Book #19, The Departure, shows another side to Yeerks, proving that they're not all evil. Yes, Cassie wanted to make a pact with a little girl named Karen and her Yeerk, Aftran. Cassie wanted to make peace. But Cassie is just ... being stupid.
For one, she is an Animorph. Sure, in that book she quit the Animorphs, but trapping herself in caterpillar morph was pointless. That little girl named Karen became a Controller so the Yeerks could get closer to her dad, who owned a huge bank. The Sharing needs to get their funds from somewhere, you know.

And by agreeing to become a caterpillar nothlit if Aftran left Karen, she should have been smart enough to know that Karen would just get reinfested. The Yeerks needed Karen to use her daddy's piggy bank. News reports show that both Karen and Cassie are missing - three days later, both of them are well and alive, and what do you know, Karen doesn't go back to the Yeerk Pool. The Yeerks aren't that stupid. She's a little girl, and a re-infestation would not only give away Aftran's knowledge of Yeerks who hate their parasitic lifestyle but EXPOSE THE ANIMORPHS IDENTITIES as well. Thus, Cassie is stupid. Very stupid.

And sure, she has her morals and ethics, but in a war, they don't always work.
In book 50, the Ultimate, she stopped Jake from killing Tom. Honorable of her. I would have been glad had she done that if Tom DID NOT HAVE THE MORPHING CUBE and thus let the Yeerks acquire morphing power. Morphing was the one thing they had against the Yeerks and she delivered the weapon straight to them. The only "bright" side to her action was that Tom survived...only to be killed by Rachel later on Jake's orders.

Sorry for rambling, but as moral and ethical as Cassie is, she's not really cut out for the war.

[Ginkasa]

I really really hate #36 The Mutation.  Several of the characters act out of character.  The mutated Atlantis thing was weird and didn't mesh well with the established universe.  I couldn't even finish it when I re-read the series about a year ago.  I skimmed the last third of the book. 

My classic unfavorite book was #14 The Unknown.  Whenever I would read through the series as a kid, I would always just skim really quickly through this one.  Now though, I just think its kind of stupid.  Its just a dumb little adventure.  I don't find it offensively bad or anything.

#19 is, BTW, a really great book.

[AniDragon]

I'm pretty sure you can skip the Australia book and not miss a thing. That's probably its biggest saving grace. It likely counts for other bad books.

Oh, I know that now. I didn't know it at the time, though.

[poparena]

that was interesting to listen to. I think I've watched a few other videos in this series before. I googled to see if he'd done 31, but it didn't show up. I'd like to see his opinion on that.

Well, in a world of buffahumans and Atlantis and mind-control beef, I'd hardly rank #31 among the worst of Animorphs, but you're right about the logistics, this opens up a lot of questions about how the Yeerks can function without any type of portable source of Kandrona, especially with them infesting people in high positions that require them to be constantly traveling for business.

Of course, anyone who knows me probably knows my choice for the worst Animorphs book: Megamorphs #2. Between a nuclear explosion happening right off the coast of the Animorphs' home town that has no impact and is completely forgotten, the general stupidity of the Animorphs' actions, the pathetic alien races introduced, Cassie hitting the breaks on narrative to cry over killing a triceratops, and, of course, Tobias committing genocide for no good reason, I think it's safe to say to that Megamorphs #2 is a ****ing mess.

[Chad32]

Well, I guess I can't say 31 is the only complete idiot plot. Trying to erase sentience from people, and explosions that send you back in time rank pretty high on breaking the willing suspension of disbelief.