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obsidianwolfThe threat is the part of the trilogy I'm mot conflicted about. It works very well as a Jake book but it also brings home how much Jake was following the others on the David thing. It brings up a flaw in his early leadership that even he acknowledges in this book his dependence on how well he knows them.
Now as I said last time I think David jumping off the slippery slope was inevitable but the situation wasn't helped by Jake coasting along and dragging a kid in who should have been kept back. It wouldn't have killed them to leave him out of the mission they were on at the time. Reading this book honestly makes me think the David arc should have been longer with more character POV's. I actually think we really missed out by not getting a Cassie book because she was clearly the most in favor of David as an Animorph and after that she sort of drops back and is just undecided untils he comes up with their horrible solution. (more on that next time)
This book does set up a fatal flaw of Jake's that the narrative glosses over alot. He's constantly putting Cassie as an authority on people or morality and it really bites him toward the end of the series. The fact Jake gives different weight to different folks opinions based on his personal feelings is the type of flaw that I would have loved to see exploredl in depth in the series.
I do like that we begin to see Jake's alienation from his family that only grows worse as the series goes on.
I'll reread the third book some time tomorrow got things to do tonight.
Now as I said last time I think David jumping off the slippery slope was inevitable but the situation wasn't helped by Jake coasting along and dragging a kid in who should have been kept back. It wouldn't have killed them to leave him out of the mission they were on at the time. Reading this book honestly makes me think the David arc should have been longer with more character POV's. I actually think we really missed out by not getting a Cassie book because she was clearly the most in favor of David as an Animorph and after that she sort of drops back and is just undecided untils he comes up with their horrible solution. (more on that next time)
This book does set up a fatal flaw of Jake's that the narrative glosses over alot. He's constantly putting Cassie as an authority on people or morality and it really bites him toward the end of the series. The fact Jake gives different weight to different folks opinions based on his personal feelings is the type of flaw that I would have loved to see exploredl in depth in the series.
I do like that we begin to see Jake's alienation from his family that only grows worse as the series goes on.
I'll reread the third book some time tomorrow got things to do tonight.
