Basic Info

Format: Audio

Pages/Length: n/a

Genre: Young Adult; Fantasy

 

At A Glance

Love Triangle/Insta Love/Obsession?: eh.

Cliff Hanger: Kinda.

Triggers: n/a

Rating: 3 stars

 

Score Sheet
All out of ten

 

Cover: 7

Plot: 6

Characters: 6

World Building: 6

Flow: 6

Series Congruity: 7

Writing: 7

Ending: 6

 

Total: 6

 

In Dept

Best Part: Kinda a happy thing going for these kids.

Worst Part: unbelievable things happening...

Thoughts Had: Um, what?!

 

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: Yes

Recommending: Sure

 

Short Review: So they found a group of people accepting of them and this Anna girl is like yah i can deal with having all these kids!? No. I feel like the random attacks are not really important, like they have a few pages about it and then move on to them just living, kinda boring.

Why is Iggly leaving the group!? how does his parents just accept that it's him?! Ugh!!! Like they don't want testing done or anything, just hey son, welcome home! Then he just come back 50pgs later, like i'm sure his parents really were like sure leave already... dumb. Then we get that "cliff" hanger towards the end, but really she was kinda falling for Ari then you're going to be like, ha, he's her sister... yuck.

 

Misc.

 

Book Boyfriend: No.

Best Friend Material: Angel.

 

This is a playlist of songs that I think are perfect for the Maximum Ride series be James Patterson. Listen on 8tracks

1. Hold Me Now by Red
2. Something I Need by OneRepublic
3. People Like Us by Kelly Clarkson
4. Still Into You by Paramore
5. I'm Gonna Fly by Sydney Forest
6. Titanium by David Guetta feat. Sia
7. Miss Independent by Kelly Clarkson
8. Carry On by Fun.
9. Go Figure by Everlife
10. Rock N Roll by Avril Lavigne
11. I'm Yours by The Script
12. Some Nights by Fun.

13. Geronimo by Sheppard

Hello.

 

This time I'm doing a review for the second book in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson: School's Out - Forever.

 

In this book, Max and her Flock are still on the run the evil scientist that made them 98% human and 2% bird.  But Fang get injured and they have to make a stop in Washington D. C. and temporarily stay with a FBI agent which doesn't work out so well for Max.

 

Max"s and Fang"s relationship seems to grow in this book, which I really like.  The parts with Fang and Max are awesome.  

 

One thing I love about these books is that not just in Max's point of view.  In the we see how the Flock reacts to going to school (the real kind).  

 

Pretty much the only part that made me mad was the part when Max saw [spoiler] Lissa kissing Fang!  And He Kissed Her Back!  The good news is we never see Lissa again.

 

I also don't like the FBI agent Anne Walker.  I din't like from the beginning.  

 

Another character I don't like is Max II (Max's clone).  I never liked her.

 

Anyway, this was a very awesome book.  I can't wait to read it again.

 

The group lurch from place to place wondering what's going on, there's an apparent conspiracy about them and they're not sure what's going on. The Voice is egging Max on, she's trying to keep the group together and trying to find out about their pasts. It's not bad but somehow I don't really care enough to search out the next book in the series. If it turned up I might read it but I lack an urge to really search for it.

I realize that this series is written for a different type of audience than typical James Patterson novels, but the writing in this novel was not even close to up to par to his typical offerings. It almost seems like somebody else wrote this and James Patterson slapped his name on it. Knowing that Patterson doesn't write all of his material, that would not surprise me. In this novel Maximum Ride and her cohorts of winged avian mutants, have escaped from their captors and are now running free. However, Jeb and the folks who created Max and her friends, are out to get her. The Erasers, who are sort of like werewolves, now have wings. Also, there is a second Max that has been created.
The characters in this novel are weak and not very believable. The plot holes in this novel are about the size of Mount Everest. The logic is poorly thought out. The prose is not remotely impressive. The only positive I can say is that the novel moves at a fast pace and is a quick read. This novel is not worth reading. I would recommend giving it a pass.
Carl Alves - author of Blood Street