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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Visser by K.A. Applegate Visser — K.A Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Visser by K.A. Applegate Visser — K.A. Applegate. In an hour or so, once I was out of sight of land, I would lower my sails and wait for a Bug fighter to come lift me off the deck. The engine backwash of the Bug fighter would capsize the boat. Or / might put the Taxxon pilot to the test and see if he could ram the low-slung boat. That would puzzle the humans. Either way, my body would never be found. My time of lying low was over. I would spearhead the invasion of Earth. I would take charge of our greatest conquest. I would stand alone atop the Yeerk military hierarchy. I was to become Visser One. Her human name is Eva. There was a time when she had a loving husband and a son, Marco. When she had a wonderful career. But that was before she was infested by Edriss 562. Before the invasion of Earth. Now, Edriss 562 lives in Eva's head and controls her every movement. And through Eva, Edriss has become the highest-ranking general in the Yeerk empire, surpassing even her arch rival, Visser Three. She is Visser One. But, it has become known that Visser One's tactics for attaining her current position were less than acceptable -- even to the Yeerks. Now she is on trial for treason. If she's found innocent she'll continue to rule. But if she's found guilty, she'll lose her life -- and possibly the life of her host, Eva. Which will mean that Marco will never, ever see his mother again. As told by Rachelle. So when I read #35 , and finished it the same day without closing it, I became more fond of Marco and his mom, Eva also known as Visser One . And I knew, with all my heart (dramatic?), that there's more to know behind their story. I've always been thrilled when I got my "Visser" book. I knew it was something, aside from the fact that it's the only hardbound I got among my "Animorphs" . But then, a year and a half had passed and I was only able to open the book yesterday. How's that? Anyway, I was still on a hang over of my being-so-overwhelmed-with-Dak-and-Aldrea's-story that I had a second guess that "Visser" would just bore me, even if it would mean more knowledge about Marco and Eva's relationship to the Yeerk invasion of earth. Especially when I read that the book would be about Visser One on a trial with Visser Three and The Council of Thirteen . I'm not very political, yah know? Guess what? It didn't bore me at all. Can you believe that I only read the book for six hours? Well, here's how I saw the story: Edriss-Five-Six-Two of the Sulp Niar Pool, Visser One. I'm still nauseous of the Yeerk empire after I've finished "The Hork-Bajir Chronicles" and this particular Yeerk made it worse. Well, I was amazed by the way that she wanted to explore the galaxy and her urge to find a Class-five species to save her people, and herself for the power that she was longing for. I really feel sick whenever I read on how these Yeerks go inside a creature's ear canal and flatten themselves on the brain and control the entire body as if it's theirs. I can't imagine myself as the Human-Controller . I can say that it's really going to be a nightmare for me. But then as I read the book, she being frightened and nervous of something that the book hasn't mentioned yet, made me more interested. As I've read her story with her subordinate, Essam , I was thinking, "Here you go again, K.A., making some mushy-mushy story on your book the slightest way you can so we, your fanatic readers, would think it was 'really' just a part of the Yeerk infiltration of humans. " I'm not saying I didn't like it, though. In fact, I loooved it! I even forgot about the Fan's Club I was planning to organize for Dak and Aldrea . Nah, that's too over reacting. But hey! I really have set aside my "Hork-Bajir Chronicles" addiction for a while. I felt like Jenny Lines while reading "Visser" . I got addicted to the book. Anyway, I was amazed at how the story went. Especially when it occurred to me that this was when the phone call Marco received in #35 took place. I got more excited to read every chapter. And I was left startled when I've learned that this filthy Yeerk learned how to love Essam . And to my amazement, humans, too. The twins that she also claimed as her own. Eva, Marco's mother. I was confused why she was letting her Yeerk live when she was talking to Marco . Then I realized that she wanted the Yeerks to have like a more powerful resistance to save Earth, including her son. Her "scene" with Marco was indeed touching, but I didn't cry a tear. Probably because I was still so caught-up with the realization that I learned about Edriss . And at the same time, like I said, I was confused. He isn't my third favorite Animorph , and he wouldn't be able to make me cry for several times while reading his books, for nothing. He's gone from smart to genius. Needless to say, Marco rocks! I was left wondering what happened next since, for what I read from the next books, I know the Animorphs was able to save Eva and it was mentioned as well that Visser One was killed. I was like, as crazy as I wanted to scribble books #36 to #45 just so I could find out what happened next. Whew! I'm still lacking #40 and I didn't know what happened there. Anyway, I'm not losing hope that I would find that book soon and as well as the answers to my questions. Dramatic again?That's how "Animorphs" affects me. Hahaha! Oh! By the way, I've realized that I should have read this book earlier this year. Or maybe next year. Just so I'd read this on Mother's Day. You know what I mean, don't yah? K.A. Applegate. Katherine Alice Applegate , better known as K.A. Applegate, is the author of the Animorphs series. Some of her other books written for young adults include Remnants , Everworld and Making Out . Katherine A. Applegate morphs into a lion. Applegate was born in Michigan in July 19, 1956. Since then she has lived in Texas, Florida, California, Minnesota, Illinois, North Carolina, and after living in Pelago, Italy for a year, she has moved back to southern California. She has been happily married to Michael Grant for over thirty years, and he has co-authored many of her projects including Animorphs and Everworld . Together the couple have two children. Their eldest daughter Clara was born in 1997 and is a transgender woman. [1] [2] Their younger daughter Julia was adopted in 2003 from China. Following the end of Animorphs, Applegate took three years off. She is back at work and has written a picture book called The Buffalo Storm , several middle reader novels including The One and Only Ivan, and an early chapters series Roscoe Riley Rules with Harper Collins. VISSER. VISSER , published in October 1999, is the third Chronicles companion book to the Animorphs series, written by K.A. Applegate. It takes place between The Proposal and The Mutation . Narrated by Edriss 562, the book tells the story of how the young Yeerk began the invasion of Earth and rose to the rank of Visser One , with the events in her testimony taking place during the early 1990s, a decade or so after The Andalite Chronicles . Contents. Official Description. Her human name is Eva. There was a time when she had a loving husband and a son, Marco. When she had a wonderful career. But that was before she was infested by Edriss 562. Before the invasion of Earth. Now, Edriss 562 lives in Eva's head and controls her every movement. And through Eva, Edriss has become the highest-ranking general in the Yeerk empire, surpassing even her arch rival, Visser Three. She is Visser One. But, it has become known that Visser One's tactics for attaining her current position were less than acceptable -- even to the Yeerks. Now she is on trial for treason. If she's found innocent she'll continue to rule. But if she's found guilty, she'll lose her life -- and possibly the life of her host, Eva. Which will mean that Marco will never, ever see his mother again. Visser Three. Visser Three , born as Esplin 9466 Primary and later known as Visser One , is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the sci-fi book series Animorphs , written by K.A. Applegate. He is the leader of the Yeerk forces on Earth, having inherited the planet from Edriss 562, who was Visser One at the time. Sadistic and cruel, with a penchant for torture, he mainly inhabits an Andalite body during the whole series. [1] Visser Three has a personal feud with both Visser One and Elfangor. Several stories in the series feature the Animorphs using the Yeerk political situation to their advantage.
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