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undrave
Since: May, 2012
1st Mar, 2018 01:34:29 PM
Maybe see if you can't find anything from the tropes associated with Animorphs, since it shares a lot in common with the books you're looking for?
Tithemi
Since: Mar, 2018
1st Mar, 2018 01:56:41 PM
Undrave: I never would have thought of that! Thank you for the idea :)
undrave
Since: May, 2012
2nd Mar, 2018 05:56:54 AM
I hope you find it because I'm curious about it now. It sounds cool.
A series of adventure novels, probably aimed at... 12-15-year-olds?... about a group of kids who got the power to shapeshift into fantastical creatures. One girl became a "hellhound", which could spit fireballs; the token jock/bully of the group became some giant troll-like thing (subtle characterisation, right?).
They got these powers from a humanoid eldritch/alien creature who acted as their mentor. I think he might have looked exactly like a Lovecraftian fish-man, or I could be making that part up.
So yeah, basically a darker-and-edgier Power Rangers, in book form! In the '90s, or possibly very very early '00s.
Literally all the proper nouns have flown out of my head. Anyone have any ideas?
Edited by Tithemi