The Beginning (Animorphs, No 54)

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Summary: Over two years since the end, and still left hanging...
Review: (...) There were so many loose ends that weren't at all tied up. Who was The One? Any relation to the entity at the end of #41? We'll never know, will we?
I loved the series ever since I started reading them in eighth grade. Now I'm a big, bad HS senior who still rereads the books over and over again. The Anis were like friends. I laughed with them, I cried with them, I even got angry at a couple of 'em, but I was very furious when I saw that the last line I'd ever read in the series was "Ram the Blade Ship".
A lot of people have taken this lack of an ending into their own hands and thought up their own ending. On fanfiction.net, there are over 3000 fanfics devoted to Animorphs, over half written to fill that void we'd all felt when this book ended.
But otherwise, if you completely ignore the last few chappies of this book, it was great. Hearing how Marco, Cassie, and Ax had prospered was wonderful. Hearing that Jake had sunk into a depression and Tobias had run away was saddening.
Then came the part I didn't like: KAA shipped Tobias, Jake, and Marco off on a suicide mission and didn't even tell us how it ended. Just one more book to wrap it all up would have been nice.
Thanks, KA, for a great series, but no thanks for the cruddy ending.

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Summary: It's The End???
Review: ...after three years. I`m not that emotional, but hey, she was my absolute favorite character. A little dramatic, I mean come on. Tobias flies away with the ashes? Yeah. And the ending. A cliffhanger. Again. EverWorld (which I read first), Animorphs, and now possibly Remnants? I HATE CLIFFHANGERS! The book is mostly Marco (whom I now hate for being less-than-concerned with Rachel and all. He used to be a decent character). Personally, this was the worst Animorphs book (not counting Cassie and the bull), but thankfully this is not a review of the entire seris, which would have at least gotten four stars.

A disappointing ending.

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Summary: GREAT ENDING
Review: Althought alot of people were disappointed with this book, I thought it was a great ending to a great series. Althought some things seem to be left out, I think she ended the book great. It seemed very real and in war nothing is clear. So I think she followed the post-war very good. And then having the Cliffhanger at the end was awesome. I loved this entire series.

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Summary: The Beginning
Review: Ever since I first heard that Animorphs, my long-time favourite series, was ending, I was sad but excited. How would KA Applegate tie up all the loose ends? Would they FINALLY win the war? And who was the character who was rumoured to die? The Beginning answers all those questions, and more, but unfortunately leaves a few things unsaid, like what ever happened to the families of the Animorphs, and the last names of everyone but Jake! To be honest, the first time I read this book I absolutely HATED it. How DARE she do that to the characters I've grown up with?! How DARE she leave me hanging like that in the end?! But when I went back and read it again, I really liked it. While the ending doesn't have them living "happily ever after," it does paint a pretty realistic picture of life after the war. In one of the earlier books, remember Jake telling Rachel he had no idea what she'd do after the battle was over? How he wasn't even sure what he himself would do? How do you go back to school after (hopefully) saving the planet before you're even old enough to drive? How can you lead a normal life at all? It was cool to see what the Animorphs went on to do, from Cassie working with Hork-Bajir, to Marco becoming a millionaire playboy, surrounded by beautiful supermodels, but not truly as happy as he seems. I loved reading about his life! While the ending was kind of sudden, and made me wanting more, I can see what KA Applegate was going for. The Animorphs deserved to go out fighting . . .

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Summary: A thing writen by SHE-MAN
Review: Hello Animorph fans. I read that K.A Applegate reads these kinda things.
This book is insane. i wouldn't say it's the best of the series, but definitely one of the best. It starts out when Rachel must go to a Yeerk ship, alone all alone, and she must kill Tom, so the morphing cube won't go into the evil of the Yeerks all throughout the universe. I don't know why Applegate chose Rachel, but my theory is at the end. As almost everyone knows, she dies fighting. So did Tom. Though I really don't understand why Jake sent her to kill Tom in the first place, cuz the cube went to the other Yeerks on the ship.
So Rachel dies, and the rest of the team capture the mother ship, where Visser 3/1 was. So lade lade la they save the world at last, and they become well known. Jake, Marco, and Cassie are heroes. Ax is a prince, and Tobias and Rachel are known as the forgotten animorphs.
So eveythings cool for some years, which Marco gives a brief and funny summary of what happened aferwards. Ax goes back to his home planet, bla bla bla. But something happens ( doesn't something always happen ) and Ax is missing, and the other Animorphs (except for Cassie) go in search for him with another Andalite. What if theres something more evil out there that control the Yeerks?
Anywayz thats about it. Theres a nice surprise at the ending too. My theory about Applegate choosing Rachel: Well in one of the books in the series, can't remember which one, they say: We don't know what will happen to Rachel when the war is over. So i think Applegate couldn't figure what to do about Rachel, ( No offense Applegate) so she made her die doing a brave thing.
That's all.

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Summary: This book depressed me for several years
Review: I am a HUGE Animorphs fan, I have read every book, seen every episode of the shortly lived series and after reading the conclusion I was VERY annoyed. It just doesn't make sense why Jake would send his own flesh and blood into the Blade ship to kill his brother. K.A. leaves us to assume that all the Handicapped Animorphs were all killed (which is kind of humorous). After reading about Rachel's death, Jake's slip into insanity(from Rachel's and Tom's deaths), Tobias losing his humanity, Ax getting captured and then possessed by something, Cassie turning her back to the Animorphs and then that DAMN CLIFFHANGER! It made no sense to end this awesome series on such a stupid cliffhanger. I felt like she slapped me in the face after I spent all my money on her books. I'm giving it 4 stars because I love the Animorphs and I would give all the other books perfect scores. If you are reading this K.A., write at least two more books to answer all the questions you left unanswered and try to find a way to have Rachel live, even if you have to claim the last book was just a dream.

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Summary: I can't believe it's over...
Review: I got this movie thinking oh my gosh it's really an animorphs movie.I had read all the books and loved them but when I got the movie it was totally different from the book.Almost everything was left out.for instance in the book when jake was turned into a controller the yeerk inside him turned into a tiger then his dog.in this he turned into a tiger and was caught by the other animorphs.also axe does many things that were not at all in the story and everything in the book did not happen at all.you can buy these but don't get your hopes up!!!!also they look nothing like they do in the cover and have completely different morphs

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Summary: Animorphs: the Beginning
Review: I think that this concluding book of the series is great. It portrays emotions, friendship and kinship. This book is the best book I have ever read. The content is amazing. Although I have only read it once, I have remembered the content as clearly as when I have read it. Good Job, KA.

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Summary: sigh..KA could you please write more Animorphs?
Review: I've read all of the animorphs books at least three times. They were/are my favorite series. I started reading them as a freshmen in high school, and still find myself re-reading them as a junior in college.
I expected the series to end as it did. Rachel was way too violent to remain alive, and Jake and Cassie's relationship had to end b/c of the blue box issue a couple books earlier. However, after the Visser trial (which reminded me of the war trials after WWII) the rest of the book basically stunk. I'm not taking about how everyone's lives were changed, especially Jake and Tobias's- (If their lives did not turn out as they did I would have been a bit angry because it would have been so unrealistic). I'm talking about how in the span of a few pages KA thrust us into a new situation and just left us hanging. I thought this was horribly arrogant of her! I mean, after readers have invested years of our time in her books and come to know and love each character-boom! that's it. and we're left with a feeling of "WHAT?" So pretty much because of that cruel trick KA played I hated this book. I was looking for closure not more confusion!
Honestly, KA if you'd consider continuing where you left off-I'd be a loyal reader for the next 60+ books.

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Summary: Someone who appreciates the book's depth
Review: I've read numerous complainst about this book. People either seem to love it or hate it, I personally loved it. I admit, I had stopped reading Animorphs at one point simply because the books got too monotonous and cheezy for me. There were many great books in the Animorph series, but also many meaningless ones, "fluff" books. However, I was very impressed with the ending. KA successfully put together all the elements she had been building up to give us an emotional, fairly realistic and ingenious end to the war with the yeerks. Rachel was always my favorite character and my love for her has only grown, with her selfless heroic death. As for the other characters, their varied reactions after the war were very realistic, and inspired us to think about the aftereffects of war. War does not end all peachy keen, as KA was trying to explain in her letter. While Cassie was able to move on with her life and let go of her animorph self, the other character were unable to adjust to a normal life. Even Marco, who seemed content was bored and miserable. Throughout the series he had always been hiding such misery with humor, this book was no exception. Jake and Tobias, could not live dwelling on guilt and sadness, they found themselves best as fighters, as animorphs. So, I beleive, with KA's cliffhanger ending, she was paying tribute to Rachel, inspiring our thoughts, and showing us that our characters with their varied reactions to peace are still very much the animorphs we know.