The diversion

I really don't like how Applegate wrote Tobias' mom's experience of restored sight. After more than a decade of very little sight, it would be completely overwhelming to suddenly have the visual acuity of a hawk–and to be a sighted person upon morphing back to human. I also really didn't like how it's written in this tone of, “of course a blind person wants to be able to see!”

Also the distractibility of her service dog seemed like poor research. A service dog can't be so easily led away from their handler when they're working. The morphed dog would have been intact, and harder to control, like the time the kids morphed into intact bulls after aquiring steer.

Things Applegate wrote well: the neatness of Loren's house, and how Loren was able to find her groceries in the store.