Paperback, 143 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 2000 by Scholastic.
A boy named Jake wakes up to find himself twenty-five years old and in a world ruled by the aliens known as the Yeerks.
Not a bad book. But not an Animorphs book.
Definitely written from a WAY more adult oriented writer. Much more mature themes and descriptions of violence and death than any other book in the series by far... To an almost unbelievable extent. This book is like watching surgery footage of Tom and Jerry after one of their capers.
Jake sees what happens to the future if he gets sloppy and/or gives up. It’s heart-wrenching, combining a grim visage with a small moment in a hidden garden. We also meet the Orr, an alien species I was looking forward to.
The interactions with each of the Animorphs are different blends of depressing, where this future glimpse shows Jake how completely he can fail if he messes up. The precarious nature of this scenario means its hard to know whether the stories he was told which then conflicted with his observations were because he was lied to for some reason or if some meddling occurred within the event.
There have been a lot of time-shenanigans recently, with this one feeling like a counterpoint to Back to Before (which looked at an alternate past instead of a possible future). I like them, I just had forgotten that they ramped up for …
