The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Basic Info

Format: Audio

Pages/Length: n/a

Genre: Young Adult; Fantasy

At A Glance

Love Triangle/Insta Love/Obsession?: No

Cliff Hanger: eh

Triggers: n/a

Rating: 3 Stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8

Plot: 7

Characters: 7

World Building: 5

Flow: 7

Series Congruity: n/a

Writing: 7

Ending: 6

Total: 6

In Dept

Best Part: Bird people.

Worst Part: Blah blah blah...

Thoughts Had: Um, that was... okay...

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: Yes

Recommending: eh

Short Review: I expect a good amount from James Patterson, he's a very well know author, but i feel like he uses that to write shit and then sell it! But that's just my opinion. I have a love/hate relationship with the MC. She is alright, kinda catty, says things that a lot of people would never say. The plot is out there. So they're experiments on the run, but never seems to really run into any trouble, besides 1 attack on them. I find that unbelievable. Iggy breaks my heart being blind, and Angel is my fav, sassy! I'll keep reading but with lower expectations.

Misc.

Book Boyfriend: Pass.

Best Friend Material: Angel! even thou she is like 6

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I really liked the heroine of this story. She is strong and powerful, but still makes mistakes and has weaknesses. While she is gifted in many ways, in other ways she is very human. She is also very sarcastic, which leads to humorous narrative.

The story itself was cool. There are a lot of tangents like going to a fancy restaurant and seeing a concert, which add to the monstrous length of the book, but I really did like the story. There's adventure and mystery, humor and drama. It is pretty well rounded.

I am definitely planning on checking out the rest of the series.

While I might have a bit of a love/hate relationship with this series, I loved this book when I read it. Maybe it's a bit immature, but I was reading it at a time when immature was okay. This book was fast paced and funny, and, despite the fact that the rest of the series is what I like to call a "dumpster fire," this book was fun and not completely crazy. 
Even though the characters often annoyed me, I still found myself liking them. They were light and humorous, even if I felt like sometimes they had gone off the deep end. I totally ship Fax (Fang and Max), and anxiously waited for the two of them to get together. Angel creeped me out more than a little, and I couldn't understand Max's fascination with her, but I didn't dislike her as much as I would come to do so in the future. I liked the whole family aspect of everything, but found the other characters forgettable, found all of them a tad bit annoying, and sometimes I felt like there were too many of them. 
This book was fast paced, and I really enjoyed how quickly things moved. Often, they would go on these random tangents, but I didn't really care too much, because even though they weren't really part of the main plot, they were entertaining and action-filled, not just random rambling bores. I would have preferred to have a few less tangents, but they didn't significantly harm the plot in any major, significant way. 
So, while I might not suggest the entire series to every person I meet, I really did enjoy this first book. It was fast-paced, entertaining, and even funny at some points. I can understand how some people might not enjoy the humor or the plot line, I think it's aimed at a younger audience, but when I first read this, I was that younger audience, so I liked it well enough. Each element on its own may have been a bit lacking, and in need of some fine-tuning, but when it all came together, I found myself quite satisfied. 

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