Status Updates From The Pretender (Animorphs, #23)

“I wondered about the image of Hork-Bajir and humans living side-by-side…Humans didn’t have a good record of getting along with people different than themselves. Humans killed one another over skin color or eye shape, or because they prayed differently to the same god. Hard to imagine humans welcoming foot tall goblins into the local Scout troop when they couldn’t even manage to tolerate some gay kid.”

Tobias and Rachel…the tragedy just piles on for these two.

Yep. This lovely children's series where one of the characters actively and explicitly expresses SI.

I wondered about the [...] Hork-Bajir and humans living side by side [...]. Humans didn't have a great record of getting along with people different from themselves. Humans killed one another over skin color or eye shape or because they prayed differently to the same god. Hard to imagine humans welcoming seven-foot-tall goblins into the local Boy Scout troop when they couldn't even manage to tolerate some gay kid.

"If Marco spent a day with the Hork-Bajir, he'd lose his mind and run screaming away looking for someone, anyone, who'd get a joke."

Ironic, given what happens during the end game.

I must swoop down and drive the sharp talons into the brain, into the neck. I must feel the heart stop beating. After . . . after I have already begun to feed.

That's what the name Tobias means. For this Tobias. For this one, strange, unique creature.

Taking a bit of a break by going back to my Animorphs re-listen. Although for a second when I saw it was a Tobias book, I thought it was the one where he spends the whole book being tortured, but no, it's the one where he's catfished by fake family. Such light reading material!

Alright, read me a bed time story, Mr. Crouch.