Mutation

by Katherine Applegate

The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty new science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of a action!... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590881949
• ISBN13: 9780590881944
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Apple Paperbacks (Scholastic)
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

The struggle continues...

Billy and Mo'Steel have been separated from the rest of the group and are trapped in the basement of what seems to be the ship. There they meet two Remnants, Alberto and his son Kubrick. Kubrick, however, has gone through a strange mutation that makes him into a living, breathing monster or whatever you'd like to call it. The four struggle with another dangerous environment below and find a surprising discovery, Mother.Jobs, 2Face, Yago, and the rest of the Remnants are still trapped on the Constitution and time is running out because the ship is capsizing fast. Not only that but British war ships are attacking them all at the same time. Can Billy, the kid who stayed awake for 500 years, help save them? Can he beat Mother at a mind game that he can't even control?This was another edge of your seat edition ofr Remnants where more weird thing happened that at times were confusing. The switching from node to node made things even more complicated. Still this book overall was pretty good. Can't wait for the rest of the Remnants books.

Interesting, if lacking direction.

From the first page - on which the somewhat disgusting and definitely unique mutation on the cover is described - onward my full opinion of the series of events consisted of one word: "What???" With event after event and plot twist after plot twist, I found myself at the end of a somewhat short novel in a completely different state of mind than at the beginning. The characters are killed off or changed dramatically with each chapter - which does, if not anything else, make for an interesting story. All the characters have been developed wonderfully (or horribly, depending on your point of view) and the "good guys" and "bad guys" aren't as clear as they seemed to be in Book 1. There was much too little of Tamara and her baby - especially after the past few books have brought interesting foreshadowing and info about them - but I suppose that's what more books are for. The books never focus on one character or situation in particular, which makes a confusing web of different paths, and no clear direction. The end...well...for the sake of not revealing too much, I'll just say the end was a strange way to pull things together. Off to wait impatiently for book 6. . . :)

Another mystery has now begun...

Billy Weir is a mystery. A brilliant mind living in the shadow of his fellow Remnants and with the strange ability to see the future -- or something like the future. When him and Mo'Steel are almost killed by aliens but manage to stay alive together, they find themselves isolated from the rest of the crew and are struggling to find their ways back. Mo'Steel and the others have always wondered what Billy Weir is really like, and now it's Mo'Steel's chance to finally understand who he really is. But when they meet Kubrick, a boy who with a tragic accident that left his body shattered and caused him to look horrific -- they realize that they're not the only ones who need help and to be safe. They may able to get back to Jobs, 2Face, Yago, Violet Blake, and the others if they keep searching, but first they have to understand exactly what Kubrick is all about, and what he wants. What is Kubrick's role... and how will this affect the Remnants? Remnants #5: Mutation is the mysterious and dramatic addition to the series, with a unique twist and fast-paced storyline that restores some of the excitement in the series.

Better, but still the same.

Well, well, well. Where have I seen Remnants 5 Mutation before? Perhaps disguised as Remnants 4 Nowhere Land and Remnants 3 Them. The themes are the same. We start out, explaining what happened as the previous one came to a finale. Then the book starts moving onward, continuously gaining steam as it heads towards its last three or four chapter slam bang finish. Then all the action is calmed, and we get a picture of what is to come in the next book. Basically, the themes are becoming the same in each book. However, there is so much happening, and so much new discovery that the book becomes enjoyable, but it doesn't take a keen eye to see that this is nothing new. So, while the series is good, shocking, exciting, stunning, and confusing it still manages to be presentable. Hopefully, K. A. Applegate will try something new as this series marches onward, or else seeing the same review printed by me every two months may become something people will have to get used to.

Whoa!

whoa!!!this book was Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the group of 'remnants' has been split up: Jobs,Violet,Yago,2Face,and the rest are still a board the "Constitution" sailing with nowhere to go, while Mo'steel,and Billy have just met two of the lost "remnants",Kubrick,and his father Alberto.Someone aboard "Mother" has done something to Kubrick though,they have replaced his skin with a clear almost shiny substance...Now they just have to figure out how to get out of the "basement and get up to the rest of the Group.... Up back on the ship 2Face and Yago are trying to start a civil war among the group,by asking who should be the leader?