Marco books have some of the best snippets.
I jumped in, feet first, around the eight-foot marker. I bobbed back up to the surface and said, “This is insane, Marco.”
To which I answered, “So I’ll be careful.”
To which I countered, “You’re talking to yourself, do you know that?”
“Oh, shut up,” I said.
And:
“You know, sometimes there’s just a very fine line between us and the Three Stooges,” I said.
<What are stooges?> Ax asked.
“A stooge is a guy stupid enough to run around inside a Yeerk stronghold wearing a pair of bike shorts and accompanied by a Deer-man from outer space and a mouse-eating Bird-boy. That’s a stooge.”
Also, SHARKS!
They’re the Hork-Bajir of the sea! Apparently literally. It’s an odd one to pair right fater The Unknown. Back to back books talking about non-human/animal Controllers, although with rather different outcomes. And now I want to look up the differences between shark and horse brains…
Plus, we get an appearance by a new, interesting race (mind reading amphibians!), more Visser One scenes (of course, it’s a Marco points of view)/Visser Three politics, and some underwater adventures, which are neat.
Overall, a decent entry. Up from The Change and The Unknown, I think.
Onward!
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