Hold on tight for the wildest ride yet as Max and the flock take on global warming--Earth's biggest threat--in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.
Maximum Ride and the other members of the flock are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true...until they're hunted by the world's nastiest villains.
Max returns in a chilling adventure unlike any other. Safe havens for the six highly-sought-after winged kids have become increasingly hard to find, so the flock takes refuge in Antarctica with a team of environmentalists studying the effects of global warming. In this remote wilderness--whether pursued by corrupt governments, bioengineered bad-guys, or the harsh forces of nature--survival of the fittest takes a new twist!
I am a major fan of the Maximum Ride Series, ever since I picked up the first book years ago. To be honest I don't know why I never read more than the first two books, I have owned the almost complete series for about two years now. I guess life just got in the way of my reading. Then more recently I picked up the series again. I was almost finished with the first book, The Angel Experiment, when my dog decided to target it as his new chew toy. So therefore I had to wait until I had the money to go get the book again. Months later I was able to pick up book one from my local Barnes and Noble. I quickly finished that book and moved onto the second book in the series, Schools Out-Forever. My edition unfortunately was a hardback and in my opinion I really don't like reading hardback books, but despite my displeasure I finished the second book relatively quickly and rushed onto the third installment in the Maximum Ride series. Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports was just as fast paced as the previous books. I flew through these books like they were nothing and they kept me on the edge of my seat. Unfortunately when I finally managed to pick up the fourth book, The Final Warning I was kind of disappointed. The book may have been still about my favorite kick ass heroine Max, but it felt like it was just trying to hard. Yes, it was Max's duty to save the world, and yes, global warming is bad but come on. I did not pick up this book to be preached at about the dangers of pollution and how us humans are destroying the world. I picked up this book to read about Max being awesome and kicking butt. Yes, I did get a little bit of that action but it felt forced and the "bad guy" wasn't really introduced properly. The people that the flock were up against were not even human! I think James Patterson kind of flopped on this book and probably just made this book to be for the middle school students who had to pick a fiction book and do a global warming project about said book. Overall I really still like Max and the flock but I just really wasn't into this book. I hope that the series picks up again and I get to see more kick-assery from Maximum Ride.
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