Apologies for incipient wall of text as I process my book hangover through the most readily available outlet!
I have review notes for everything except the last book (still processing!) mostly b/c I made myself write them before I let myself start the next book—and a good thing too, because in that final stretch and with all the post-move decompressing I just wanted to read, not review.
But yeah, what a project! Almost 4 full months, and I regret nothing; it absolutely has the fannish intensity/consumability of something like TV, and I probably couldn't have picked anything better to get me through the stressful last few months. What a good impulse decision past-me made.
It's so tempting to read the Everworld series now! I read a book or two on release but IIRC did a combo of "this isn't Animorphs, so it's bad" and "I'm almost an Adult now and these are YA and so they must be Bad"--I'd love to know what I think of them with a clearer head. But I don't want to set myself up for failure by chasing an equally absorbing experience, because tbh anything else will pale in comparison right now.
So what I really should do, when I'm done reviewing and thus not tainting my opinion of canon, is read a boatload of fic. I hope there's a lot of weird things about alien biology and trauma processing and weird AF social dynamics, because the series had a lot but honestly could not, given its content, ever have enough.
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I have review notes for everything except the last book (still processing!) mostly b/c I made myself write them before I let myself start the next book—and a good thing too, because in that final stretch and with all the post-move decompressing I just wanted to read, not review.
But yeah, what a project! Almost 4 full months, and I regret nothing; it absolutely has the fannish intensity/consumability of something like TV, and I probably couldn't have picked anything better to get me through the stressful last few months. What a good impulse decision past-me made.
It's so tempting to read the Everworld series now! I read a book or two on release but IIRC did a combo of "this isn't Animorphs, so it's bad" and "I'm almost an Adult now and these are YA and so they must be Bad"--I'd love to know what I think of them with a clearer head. But I don't want to set myself up for failure by chasing an equally absorbing experience, because tbh anything else will pale in comparison right now.
So what I really should do, when I'm done reviewing and thus not tainting my opinion of canon, is read a boatload of fic. I hope there's a lot of weird things about alien biology and trauma processing and weird AF social dynamics, because the series had a lot but honestly could not, given its content, ever have enough.