"Your Eyes" is so awful. OMG. "Your EYES, as they SAID their goodBYES, can't get them OUT of my MIND, and I FIND, I can't HIDE, from your EYES..." Oh, Roger. I'll go ahead and admit that it gives me a giggle when he says "It isn't much, but it took all year," because in my head what he means is "Actually I wrote it in five minutes, but if I tell you that it took me all year and it's a meaningful expression of our love for one another you can't say anything bad about it, right? Right?" So bad.

It's like...aside from the actual Bolivian Army Ending, which came out of nowhere, all the developments in the ending arc made sense and were logical and all that? But they somehow managed to trainwreck despite that. Maybe because a lot of other logical, sensible things to address just got dropped. I'm still pissed that the parents didn't make a noticeable appearance in the last book, after all the buildup with them in the closing arc. And slaughtering all the Auxiliary Animorphs felt very cheap, somehow.

I love Abroad. I haven't seen any bashing, which I'm thankful for, but I've seen a lot of people cite it as their least favorite or call it boring or whatever. Which I can kind of understand, as it's paced a lot slower than the other books (it's even lampshaded!), but it's such a great book. :( Nita turning Ronan into a soggy beer mat is one of the Top Best YW Moments Ever, no lie.