OK, I wanted to read this one because it's popular with the teens (and because I loved Animorphs as a kid, duh), but I wasn't really expecting to like it. I didn't, really? It was too dark and gross and odd for me, an adult fussbudget. It also seems like there is a LOT going on in this series. Like, all the adults disappeared, but also there are mutant powers, but also there are talking coyotes, but also there is a dark magic force that lives in a mine? It... couldn't have been just like two of those things? And this couldn't have been less than 550 pages? No? OK fine.

I don't have any desire to read the rest of this series, but I did immediately go on to Wikipedia to read plot summaries of the rest of the books. Like, I wanted to know what happened, but I knew I did not want to read thousands more pages about these characters to find out. It all sounds very grim. And the book I read concurrently is a nonfiction book about global warming. I think maybe to an adult reader the scenarios are a lot more horrifying than to teen readers? Or maybe they just like to be horrified? That would explain all the zombies. IDK MAN.