The Unexpected (Animorphs, 44)

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Summary: The "unexpected" great book...
Review: Cassie is stranded in the Australian Outback together with the evil Visser Three. She doesn't know how to get back to her place, but she knows that if she doesn't act fast she will meet her end. This was a very good book, and I never expected it to be so good. It was very well-written and I thought it's one of the best in the series .

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Summary: Finally, an Animorphs worth reading!
Review: I own all the Animorphs books, and lately they've been, well, a disappointment. Disappointing, boring, dull, tedious, simple, no matter how you say it, KA Applegate seemed to have lost her touch. The size of the books shortened, too. Now they were short on top of that! But The Unexpected spun everything around. It looks like Applegate has gone off and found her talent again, and this book was fantastic!

Cassie has always been the weakest of the Animorphs, and you notice that again in this one. Her kill 'em and cry over 'em attitude, as I think the Drode suggested in an earlier novel, was evident again, as she fought the Hork-Bajir on a plane going to ? As it turns out, she's on the road to the Australian Outback, and is going to find a love interest (what would Jake say! ) among a native boy. As if Cassie doesn't have enough on her hands, what with getting home and all, the boy's grandfather gets a horrible pussing wound, that takes up almost his entire leg, from a piece of a Bug Fighter, and Cassie alone has to try and save him. Then Visser Three arrives, and begins a struggle to live, and save the natives. I throughly enjoyed hearing about the Yeerk invasion from another point of view, and I think Cassie's attitude may change a bit in the next books in the series. After being able to talk about the Yeerks to another person, and getting a view entirely different from what her friends say, think it'll pain her less to do what you gotta do to save the world. A great book, and exciting to the end.

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Summary: Cassie goes to Austrailia
Review: In this book, Cassie gets stuck in the cargo hold of a plane going to Sydney and the Yeerks intercept the plane. Cassie morphs bird and flies out of the plane, and lands in the Austrailian Outback. Visser Three also goes to the Outback. Will Cassie survive, or will she fail? Will she ever get home? Read the book to find out!

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Summary: Much better than most of the recent Animorphs books.
Review: When a piece of Bug Fighter wreckage is found by the government, Cassie and the other Animorphs attempt to keep it from falling back into Yeerk hands - so they go to the airport where it is being loaded off a plane. But to avoid capture, Cassie must hide in the cargo hold of a plane that takes off with her on it - a plane that turns out to be going to Australia! When she arrives in the Outback, a boy finds her and takes her to his family, who offer her food, clothing, and shelter. She figures she can rest there a few days and then set out to contact her family. But when the Yeerks find her, she must escape earlier than planned - but not without fighting a battle first to protect her new friends. One of the things that made this book much better than the recent books in the series, which were mostly dissapointments, was that it had a new plot and setting that hadn't been used yet. Highly reccomended to fans of the series.