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The Test (Animorphs, No. 43)

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In The Test (Animorphs No. 43), there is a return character. This time its Tobias' ex-torturer. Remember, from The Illusion (Animorphs, No. 33)?

Well, the human controller has captured Tobias- again -but now says that she is part of a Yeerk peace movement. To believe or not to believe, that is the question. And hurry up is the motivational line! For Tobias and the other animorphs are running out of time...

This short 135 page book made up for it by being really,really good--I think this this is the second best ANIMORPHS book since September, next to the legendary VISSER.This book,narrated by Tobias,involves joining sides with Tobias's old and hateful enemy,Taylor.And they also morph Taxxons,whic sounds yucky but is very,very cool! Buy this book NOW!

This book is in my top 5 list of Animorphs, very near the top. I think K.A. really out did herself with this one. It kept me on the "edge of my seat" throughout the whole book. I still can't decide which book was more powerful, The Illusion (animorphs #33)or The Test. I wouldn't recommend this one for first-time Animorph readers (try #1), but for serious fans, this is a long-waited for treat that you can't pass up.

Tobias is one character I always look forward to reading about. He has a lot of deepish issues to write about. He was certainly a deep thinker when he was a regular human walking around; but now he is truly deep. I think his character has probabley changed and evolved more than any other Animorph character.

Fairly early in the series, Tobias had to deal with his feelings of catching his live meals. Remember his humiliation in being caught eating road kill? I thought that was very well dealt with. Remember when he was in human morph as his past self and was facing the Visser? He had been a hawk for so long he forgot to let his face show regular human emotions. So he was looking at the Visser with a total poker face, which wound up saving his life. Who would have thought of such a thing? It is these things, as well as his deepening relationship with Rachel, which make him the fascinating character he is today.

The Animorph series continues to grow and change as a series. We get to see past enemies again. In this book, the Animorphs have to battle the chick who tortured Tobias before. I thought the torture he had to go through was very well described. Tobias's flashbacks had me gritting my teeth and feeling his pain. Imagine his horror at being in her evil clutches all over again and totally dreading the torture which was to come for him just because he tried to do a good deed and save a little boy.

What I would like to see is the storyline with Jake and Tom and Marcus revisited and changed around a bit. Can Tom and Marcus's mother ever be saved from what has happened to them? If they were saved, could the be double agents or work with the Animorphs in the future in some sort of sideline way? Or would that be too much of a departure from what has already been set up? Just some thoughts.

I think Tobias' character really developed in this book. Each Tobias book sees new changes for him and this was a big one. The Animorphs co-operate with Taylor, the Controller who tortured Tobias in #33 for this one. Seeing Taylor again brings up all sorts of memories of his torture and questions in Tobias' mind. He keeps thinking back to when he first became a nothlit, wondering if he actually gave up and chose to be trapped in hawk morph. ( This was one of my favourite parts of the book as I always wanted to know what happened to Tobias when he was first trapped.)What happens to Taylor in the end was definetely deserved, but, as in the case of Visser One, I think she will be back.The ending I thought was very powerful and a great ending line from Rachel. This definetly ranks in my best Animorphs books, not quite up there with #3,#31 and #33, my all-time favourites but close. Tobias is my favourite character and I always enjoy his books. Though only a book to read after you've read some of the other Animorphs and seen the slow devlopment of the characters through time.

I sugjest any one who likes science fiction should deffinetly read this book. (but read the rest of the series first) It is a great book! in the beggining Tobias saves a boy from who has been lost in the woods in a sink hole for two days, but when he is flying back to Cassie's barn he gets attacked by a golden eagle and ends up in the University Clinic, and in the news paper. In the middle of the night some hork-bajir break in and grab his cage, but before they could get away, some people come and attack. After the battle has gone on a while Cassie, Marco, Jake, and Ax show up, but so does Taylor, who takes him to her hide out, and tries to make a deal with him, and lets him go! After talking it over with his friends every one decides to go, exept Cassie. The deal was, they would morph taxxons and dig a tunnel to the yeerk pool so Taylor could release some gas and blow the yeerk pool up. But, she sais she will give them twenty minutes to get away before she explodes the whole place, but of course she lied. To find the rest out read the book.

After starting this series around a year or two ago, I have sadly seen the average book decline and become simply average. The Test on the other hand has been a bright spot. It is interesting and suspensful. The insight into Tobias is always interesting given his conflicting hawk and human personalities. This book is one of the best books written so far, even with Visser, The Capture and The Forgotten. Great book, you've got to read it.

Taylor, Tobias's old torturer from the past, has come back to haunt Tobias. But it looks as if she's cleaned up her act. She wants the Animorphs' help in overthrowing Visser Three and blowing up the Yeerk pool. It looks risky, but it's a big chance for the Animorphs. It's an ever bigger test for Tobias, seeing that he should trust this evil Yeerk. But it's seemingly an offer he can't refuse. Morphing a Taxxon is risky indeed, but isn't it worth the outcome? Or is the outcome darker then Tobias and the others could expect...

This was an intereseting book. I rate it five stars because of the extra twists. Tobias is asked for help from his tormenter Taylor. Taylor is not a nice person. She is a Controller. Will she stick to the deal or betray the Animorphs and, Tobias, and perhaps leave them for death? Find out in Animorphs #43 The Test.

I thought this book was great. But still it was werid in a way. I have just become an Animorph fan a month or two ago and I'm trying to catch up on the reading I have read 1-14 and then I read 22,27,28 and 42-44 and So far I think that this is one of the best. So here is my summary of the story:

Well of course Tobais gets himself mixed up again. He ends up getting morphed into a Taxxon and working with Taylor. Is this odd or what working with Taylor his human torturer. This story ends up getting mixed up as Taylor passes the limit. She dissappers at the end but do you think she is finally gone I don't think so! Well that is what I think read the book and tell me what you think!