Animorphs
Animorphs.
Cool friends fighting aliens...more accurately, the pariah of a fascist civilization, minutes before being eaten alive in front of said "ccol friends" persuades and then bioengineers human child soldiers to facilitate an end to an ill-conceived and failing war now reduced to unilaterally exterminating a parasitic, physically disabled species, itself undergoing a violent civil rights movement on their own planet based on their self-recognized flaws, struggling to realize its place in a universe where godlike beings exist and decide not to offer remedy(rules of the god game) and spectate while the parasites overwhelm all vulnerable species in the known universe.
The child soldiers agree to resist the parasites, but at least a minority of them believe genocide is the wrong answer. After being physically and emotionally tortured, shot, repeatedly disemboweled and having their limbs hacked or bitten off by hosts of the parasitic species, however, all of the child soldiers begin taking violent, morally devastating actions that end their lives as they know them.
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i meant which book are you on in your reread, but it's always wise to be cautious regarding the yeerks.
The names don't ring a bell, but I think I was more of a lurker reading things rather than actively participating, so I doubt I would have remembered them.
You know, i just looked up RAF and apparently it's back online as of 2025 with some new posts.
Yeah, my buddy Goom lead the charge to get it brought back haha
And I just started 16!
amazing on both counts, and it's great you have so many more to read! enjoy, it just keeps getting better and I think you'll really like the complete series.