lingui5t reviewed The pretender by Katherine A. Applegate (Animorphs -- #23)
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5 stars
A truly excellent book in the series.
Paperback, 154 pages
English language
Published Jan. 4, 1998 by Scholastic.
"Someone's looking for Tobias. Someone who says she's his long-lost cousin. Tobias isn't sure the person is telling the truth. But she's really nice, and knows a lot about him. And what she tells Tobias definitely gets his attention." -- Back cover.
A truly excellent book in the series.
Tobias tries to decide how to be himself & whether that means being human, hawk, or a strange mix of both. The Tobias/Rachel storyline is developing in a really cool way, w/some things said explicitly instead of heavily implied.
The layers of deception and pretense are very thick. The titles usually work on several levels, but wow, this one does a lot. There are tricks, traps, pseudonyms, several kinds of impostor syndrome...
Fun fluff series that gets less and less fluff over time.