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much love for emma m lion. much applause for genieve gaunt's audiobook performance.

the characters in this are so real for suspecting that they're soulmates and mostly finding it to be a massive inconvenience

gregor and maia would be such good friends

if you think about it, Tung assigning himself father figure to miles from the moment they met in the last book is actually really funny. "daddy ky's little boy is growing up" imagine if you met his real dad! imagine if you met his MOM! imagine.

well, onwards.

the drama of miles being recognized by someone who hates him while he's trying to escape on of his misadventures...lois mcmaster bujold has presented me with yet another delicious cocktail of intrigue, i fear

also gregor! gregor, you being here is so silly! love you, greg

"When I couldn't serve Barrayar, I wanted—I wanted to serve something. To—" he raised his eyes to his father's, driven to a painful honesty, "to make my life an offering fit to lay at his feet." He shrugged. "Screwed up again."

"Clay, boy." Count Vorkosigan's voice was hoarse but clear. "Only clay. Not fit to receive so golden a sacrifice."

lois i will go insane over your fictional little guys, dont test me

"You own honor by the ocean," she whispered. "I have only a little bucketful. Unfair to jostle it—my lord."

WOW!!!!!!!!! wowowowowowowowow. ow.

i like that bujold balances miles' absolutely insane improvisational strategic skills and teenage invincibility complex with genuine existential horror the first time he encounters death by his own (indirect) hand and a general sense that he keeps digging himself way too deep into this situation. what a delicious cocktail to sip on!

*a giant hand descends from the sky, gently plucks up miles vorkosigan, and places him on a shelf labelled "KERENSA'S BLORBOS."*

boy, reading this after Shards of Honor/Barrayar is craaaaaazy. miles is like "wow i sure do want to solve the mystery of who elena's mother is" and i am like "trust me if you discover that information you will rue the day and regret...everything...! have fun miles, i love you so much!"

everyone wants to reheat the warrior cats nachos but not everyone has the sauce

we should live...for hotdog

i would die for hotdog

right, right. me when i lie

Rachel said.

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yeah idk what i would have said to that one either. let us not forget that 3 books ago it was the opposite situation and Tobias was taken prisoner completely by himself!

I started this...several days ago I guess. gotta better records of these start dates, i swear! anyway i love that this is one of the MOST HATED animorphs books. as a kid, i was like: "i guess this is just what animorphs is like sometimes. sometimes there's underwater taxidermy"

haha what do you mean this book wasnt ghost written.

i have forgotten who half of these characters are bit the leo/tristan yearning Hurts So Good i simply MUST stay up until crazy hours because WHEN ARE WE BREAKING THIS CURSE.

also feeling fond of aziza as always 🩷 i really love these characters 🩷🩷🩷

why did they use a roach for this cover's morph instead of a mountain goat? i mean i know this cover is iconic but c'mon. mountain goat??

sorry guys four does still have that fugly back tattoo 💔 i guess there's only so much you can do in an AU, but you CANNOT convince me that trees > weighing scales > eye > hands > fire are motifs that would ever look particularly cohesive together. i'm allowing it because i've decided he would get along with animorphs tobias, actually (they both love snark 🩷)

no because what if veronica roth was RIGHT to rewrite her debut novel? because this is good and i'm having a great time actually

taking a break from reading a book series with a main character named tobias to read a different book with a main character named tobias 🫡

yes, i can and WILL connect every book i read this year back to animorphs. six degrees of kevin bacon? no. six degrees of jake berenson (from animorphs).

breaking my animorphs streak to read a book about a girl who turns into a fox. i think perhaps my next non-animorphs read would be the shark prince, which is about a boy who turns into a shark. it's REALLY important to have palette cleansers between all these animorphs books about kids morphing into animals. really important. :]

sorry but this is already so much better than #25 the extreme just because marco is actually FUNNY in this one TT-TT marco i hope ur next book is better bc sweetie what WAS that! they massacred your humor! look she's back she's alive and well! anyway back to business.

the complexities of the dynamic between dak hamee and aldrea are so interesting. i love getting more background on the andalites, the hork-bajir, and the yeerks all at once. however reading this does also feel like reading a shakespearean tragedy and i am stressed and unsettled.

took a day off from reading animorphs because 7 animorphs books in 1 day was a lot. now we're back. very excited to learn about andalite patriarchy and gender roles. WOOOOO

tobias book tobias book tobias book

ok why the hell would rachel pick an ELEPHANT to morph into in this situation. i know she has amnesia but STILL

decided to do this one as an audiobook to accompany my packing on tuesday (speaking of, i'm updating from the airport :[ i'm a victim of the laguardia sinkhole). are these the same narrators as the individual POV books? they're mostly pretty consistent but a couple of them have VERY different character voices for certain characters. like tobias is way different in jake's narration than marco's