“Look! A kitty door!” Jake pointed. This is all I can think about when I read that line. So, the kids are all hiding in the bushes outside Chapman’s house and bantering about random subjects, and the banter doesn’t actually bother me.  They still bring it back to the matter at hand (find the cat,…

We start off book two with what will be the standard opening from here on out.  Basically the kids open up with the most horrible thing they can think of to hook in the readers, talk about the Yeerks and how hellish the whole situation is, and then they “smoothly” segue into something normal and…

Jake decides that he’s got to acquire the tiger in order to calm it down so it doesn’t eat them.  Although, they spend quite a while talking about this plan, and the tiger doesn’t attack.  In fact, throughout this scene, we have no idea what the tiger is doing.  We have a description of its…

“Creepy,” Rachel agreed. “Like if you took cheerleaders, combined them with gym teachers, and made them all drink ten cups of coffee.” Wait, but, last chapter you went on about how everything was normal, and now everyone is agreeing that things are un-normal?  Come on, Jake, be consistent.  Show us some of this too-cheerfulness back…

Jake makes it home in a few lines and…apparently has a normal evening after that?  Or maybe just goes straight to bed?  I mean, he just found out about aliens for the first time and discovered they want to take over the human race and also he was instructed to “warn your people,” and later…