The chronicles rocked seriously hard. I still can't decide if the Andalite, Hork-Bajir or Ellimist chronicles are the best. Though I hated the choose-your-own-ending things but I hate those on principle.
And man, I want to reread them too. What's driving me nuts is that I swear there was one passage in one of the books that stuck in my head about 'Rachel had always been [adjective]. But the war made her [adjective]'. I think the second adjective was rutheless somewhere in that paragraph but it was basically about how the war had changed all of them but Rachel had changed the most dangerously and GAH, I really want to remember what the paragraph said exactly because it struck me really powerfully at the time.
I freaked like crazy. I think I had convinced my parents to order the last ten or twelve off Amazon for me since this was when I lived in Europe, and I gobbled them down like candy. Then wanted to throw up the last one when it ended on a cliffhanger and trashed any chance my favorite chars might have had at living happily ever after.
And then I read Forley's (I think it was Forlay?) fic where Rachel hadn't died and instead became hooked on drugs and alcohol and died anyway and just gah. It made sense. Especially the Ellimist's line about how Rachel at least deserved a chance to fight her fate because she was a brave soul. It gave me a small measure of peace. Despite the ouch factor.
I am really, really glad for this letter. I wish that this had been the letter that had been printed in the back of the last book instead of the one that was, or maybe this had been printed as well.
...Also, is that a Tobias/Rachel icon? I never saw the TV show apart from maybe one ep but she's a blonde girl and I did mention Animorph icons so... *stares at it hopefully*
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And man, I want to reread them too. What's driving me nuts is that I swear there was one passage in one of the books that stuck in my head about 'Rachel had always been [adjective]. But the war made her [adjective]'. I think the second adjective was rutheless somewhere in that paragraph but it was basically about how the war had changed all of them but Rachel had changed the most dangerously and GAH, I really want to remember what the paragraph said exactly because it struck me really powerfully at the time.
I freaked like crazy. I think I had convinced my parents to order the last ten or twelve off Amazon for me since this was when I lived in Europe, and I gobbled them down like candy. Then wanted to throw up the last one when it ended on a cliffhanger and trashed any chance my favorite chars might have had at living happily ever after.
And then I read Forley's (I think it was Forlay?) fic where Rachel hadn't died and instead became hooked on drugs and alcohol and died anyway and just gah. It made sense. Especially the Ellimist's line about how Rachel at least deserved a chance to fight her fate because she was a brave soul. It gave me a small measure of peace. Despite the ouch factor.
I am really, really glad for this letter. I wish that this had been the letter that had been printed in the back of the last book instead of the one that was, or maybe this had been printed as well.
...Also, is that a Tobias/Rachel icon? I never saw the TV show apart from maybe one ep but she's a blonde girl and I did mention Animorph icons so... *stares at it hopefully*