Jake refuses to use Tom as their way in again, and because the only entrance to the Yeerk pool they knew about has been closed, they need to find another one, intending to find and destroy the Kandrona that supplies the Yeerks with their life-giving rays. So the mission here is to infiltrate their Vice Principal's house, Chapman, a prominent Controller in their area who runs the secret Yeerk recruitment group, The Sharing, and who reports directly to Visser Three. His arrogance and misplaced confidence, mixed with his tendency to fight back against overwhelming odds he is sure to lose against, mirror Rachel's. The cat morph that she adopts is the perfect example of this.
We can also see here her tendency to be overconfident, and charge into dangerous situations against all common sense. There's just the subtlest start of it here, but the seeds have been sown. Rachel is fierce and protective, and Rachel is angry. Rachel is the beautiful, fashion-conscious one, but she's much more than that under the surface.
As the series goes on, every book features our young heroes taking on bigger challenges with more and more devastating consequences, but here, the mission is small, and Rachel's goals even smaller. It's weird that what struck me the most about this second book in the series after reading it for the first time in lo these many years is how small everything feels.
I might end up reading more from the series one day because the book left off on a cliffhanger and I really want to know what happens. I wasn’t expecting much as I figured I was probably an easily impressed kid who thought every book was amazing, but was I wrong! I actually felt invested in the characters (even though I didn’t start with the first book.) There were some fun and tense scenes and the lore is something you have to get comfortable with after a while, but it was entertaining! I’m slightly embarrassed to admit this but I actually had a blast reading this. This is a 90’s book so the references and slang date themselves at times, but if nothing else I got a good chuckle out of it. And it’s particularly special because it came out on my 7th birthday. This book in this series is one of those. 😂Īfter reading a Goosebumps book this past fall for old time’s sake and because of Halloween, I realized how much fun it was to take a trip down memory lane and decided to pick up another book from my youth.
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