OK, so I recently came across the news that the Animorphs are been re-released and somehow that bit of news just brought out a craving to re-read the series again. So through the weekend I have read the entire series from 1-54 with the exception of Megamorphs( books I completely hated and felt should have been handled better than they were).

After having finished it, I just feel, what I felt all those years ago, not satisfied with the conclussion and how some things played out. If you're a fan of the series and have delved into the fanfiction fandom I would gladly appreciate if you could recommend, good, long, quality fics that you might have read.

Thank you in advance.

 

I read a few of the books, plus the prequel about the alien that gave them the power at the start, but not the whole series. A lot of it has faded out of memory.

I've heard the series ends on a really dark note, which doesn't encourage me.

I've read absolutely no fanfics about the Animorphs, which I find odd now, considering how popular it was.

 

Elfangor's Folly is over .5 million words, so is rather hefty. Quite a few problems with it, but still enjoyable. The endings, however, are rather crap.

Capnnerefir's neomorph series should also be alright. I've never read them, but they seem popular, I think.

 

I fully recommend that you pick it up again, sure there are somethings that now you're older you'll find disappointing but at the same time there are themes and character developments that are explored that only you're age now can truly appreciate.
I find it kind off odd that you are hesitant to read it to the end because of the dark tone, I honestly didn't expect a member of DLP especially someone whose been here as long as you have, kind of shying away from a story due to its dark tone.


@Thaumatologist thanks for the recommendations, I've actually gone through Neomorphs but the length of the books kind of put me off. I will check out Elfangor's folly and I am going to assume you read it and you found it to be good.

I am also curious to know what you guys think about the books in general.

 

Well... it's more like, after a load of darkness in a story, I appreciate an optimistic ending. I've never liked grimdark for the sake of grimdark.

If I find the time and the means to do it, I'll give the series another go.

 

God damn, Animorphs brings back memories. They were the books that got me into reading and eventually Harry Potter.

I haven't read any good Animorph fanfics, but from what you've said, it sounds like you haven't read some of the other companion books. These are the others that I've read that I actually liked:

Visser: Tells the story of the original Visser One, Edriss 562

The Hork-Bajir Chronicles: Tells the story of the destruction of the Hork-Bajir's homeplanet and the near extinction of their species.

The Andalite Chronicles: Tells the story leading up to the Invasion.

The Andalite Chroniceles

 

There's also The Ellimist Chronicles, which tells the story of how that particular nigh-omnipotent being came into his own. That one is definitely up there as one of my favorite books in the series, definitely worth reading.

 

I read this series, all of it, when I was younger. I reread a lot of it more recently when I stumbled across them. I enjoy it, but the ending was pretty dark and a little bit unexpected.

 

I remember these. The ending was devastating to me at the time. And the cliffhanger was just a kick in the nuts on top of everything.

I might actually pick these back up again. Fond memories.

 

Spoiler

Some alien thing assimilated Ax the Andalite, and threatens to do the same to the Animorphs. The series ends with the Animorphs preparing to ram the enemy spaceship

 

Spoiler

Basically, Rachel died trying (and failing) to kill Jake's brother. The Animorphs won the rest of the war, Andalites and Earth brokered a peace treaty, Hork-Bajir got an enclave in Yellowstone (or Yosemite, can't remember), Taxxons got perma-morphed into anacondas to get away from the Hunger, etc.

The Animorphs all became international celebrities, but Tobias went off to hide from everything since his last tie to humanity died. Visser One was tried for War Crimes, and his defense attorneys accused Jake of war crimes himself since he flushed some 17,000 Yeerks at the very end of the war. The accusation shook him up and he spiraled into depression, riddled with guilt over Rachel's death and the "murder" of those Yeerks. Pretty classic case of PTSD.

Ax became a big-wig with the Andalites and got sent on a mission to find Tom and the last remaining, morph-capable, Yeerks. Something went fubar with that and only one survivor made it back to Earth. He recruited Jake, Tobias and Marco to go rescue Ax. They found some vaguely-defined entity called "The One" (some kind of psychic predator I think) who had assimilated Ax and the Yeerks Ax was hunting. The series ends with Jake ordering their pilot to ram the ship containing the One.

I think that's about it. All things considered, it really is rather depressing. Nobody got a happy ending, except maybe the Hork-Bajir.

 

Now, we can't blame ghostwriters for the shitty cliffhanger bullshit!

That's wikipedia right there. Bolded and underlined the important parts.

So yes, Applegate intended to end on a shitty cliffhanger that fucked everyone who wanted an actual ending! Isn't she great?

fuck you Applegate fuck yooooou

 

I hate to pile on the hate... well, no, I don't. Fucking cliffhangers. Though on the reread a year or so back, I actually did like the grim!dark leading up to the end. Just the end sucked.

Also interested in any decent fanfiction.

 

Because I love you guys and I share your anger, I'm willing to share the awesomeness.

Book 55: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3883125/1/Book_55_The_Difference

Book 56: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4481989/1/Book_56_The_Rebirth

Post-cliffhanger series. I read it a while back and my memories may be tainted, but I recall it as pretty good.