And there's the fantasy of winged flight, which is always a kid-pleaser. There's lots of gritty violence, but no sex, drugs, or language problems to worry parents (at least those who don't worry about gritty violence). For teens who just want action and excitement and who don't much care about the niceties - such as logic, character development, consistent voice, or plot - this will be plenty of fun. You could compile the entire series if you got rid of the bad elaborations to the plot into a single novel that would be a lot more complete than anything a ten-book series can accomplish.Īuthor James Patterson, best known for adult suspense novels, makes a passable foray into the young adult market with this book about a group of human/bird hybrids. It’s like the author’s just sticking things into the book to make it longer. Martinez even play into the book in ANY WAY? It also doesn’t help that every chapter is about 2 pages long and every other chapter contains some bloody battle that the flock always comes out on top of. Reading into the last book, I almost didn’t finish the series because of the inexplicable changes that keep randomly occurring. They’re meeting random people who, in the end, do nothing. They’re rushing around, gaining new superpowers with no satisfactory explanation, and they don’t feel human anymore. The characters aren’t living, they’re surviving. There is only one plotline I’ve ever found to be so incomplete, incomprehensible, or so filled with gaping holes, and it’s also by James Patterson, coincidentally (Confessions of a Murder Suspect). And Max is the cause of all the problems that occur in this book, rushing off like a hero in every circumstance and being quite idiotic about it, and if you read in between the lines you can detect a sort of arrogance and self-centeredness that frankly makes her not at all likable.Īnd finally, the plot. Angel is-if you read the next book or 2-starting to become some kind of monk that fails at her job and doesn’t act like a family member at all. Nudge, Gazzy, and Iggy are just THERE, only there for the benefit of making it feel a bit more like a family. Fang is the generic cool-guy who, despite being described as the pillar that the main character (Maximum Ride) relies on, did nothing. The small tidbits of humor inserted into the story add nothing to it-and in most cases, aren’t even funny.

The massive ones, the ones that made the story not even worth bothering to read. But even reading the book as a 9-year-old I easily identified the flaws while reading the story. It might be surprising, given James Patterson’s reputation as both a great author and a popular one.

The angel experiment book