It was a little too convenient for me to say the one Yerk of hundreds in the pool that managed to get in his head was the one from his brother (so Jake could be horrified about his brother's terror and horror and defeat). I was really raptly interested in the chapters devoted to being in Jake's head, while he was trapped with the Yerk in his head, controlling his body, shuffling through his memories. As a reader this frustrates me, for wanting to see more realistic handling of what is in front of then, but at the same time I wouldn't expect a child to step up to that plate immediately. This book is early in the series but I felt out kid (like many kids do) copped out of making the hard choices the situations put in front of him needed him to make. Book 6 returns us to the beginning of our POV wheel, with Jake, leader of the Animorphs, keeper of Marco's Big Secret, and anything-but-secret-boyfriend of Cassie.
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