lingui5t reviewed The Weakness by Katherine A. Applegate (Animorphs -- #37)
Review of 'The Weakness' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Not bad! Liked it.
The writing style of this book was too punchy, almost made me think it was authored by a man.
Some anachronisms like the word Yes! in the text and single-word sentences in the narration contributed to that impression.
All in all, the plot itself was pretty insane and high-octane, more like an Andy Remic book than a Young Adult novel in the Animorphs series. My one complaint is that I would have liked the involvement of the building that proves important to be made part of the plot before it is just randomly supplied by Tobias when asked (Applegate normally does a great job of introducing such elements early in the story to make their eventual utility to the gang more understandable and sensible to the reader).
Were the whole series written in this style by this author (Elise Smith, ghostwriter), we would lose significant character …
Not bad! Liked it.
The writing style of this book was too punchy, almost made me think it was authored by a man.
Some anachronisms like the word Yes! in the text and single-word sentences in the narration contributed to that impression.
All in all, the plot itself was pretty insane and high-octane, more like an Andy Remic book than a Young Adult novel in the Animorphs series. My one complaint is that I would have liked the involvement of the building that proves important to be made part of the plot before it is just randomly supplied by Tobias when asked (Applegate normally does a great job of introducing such elements early in the story to make their eventual utility to the gang more understandable and sensible to the reader).
Were the whole series written in this style by this author (Elise Smith, ghostwriter), we would lose significant character development of Applegate, but would gain in some of the action-packed plots she is capable of giving us.
On an amusing note, Visser Three morphs in this book into an "Unnamed putrid flesh creature," according to Wikipedia.
