lingui5t reviewed The pretender by Katherine A. Applegate (Animorphs -- #23)
Review of 'The pretender' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
A truly excellent book in the series.
195 pages
French language
Published Jan. 5, 1999 by Éditions Scholastic.
Les cinq adolescents, portant désormais le nom d'Animorphs, continuent leur lutte contre les extraterrestres qui veulent asservir la race humaine. Ils se servent du pouvoir spécial que leur a conféré l'un d'eux ... Trame étirée, de piètre qualité, avec des passages violents.
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.