I have never read a maximum ride book so this is coming from an outsider.
1) I don’t know who this was written for. There were hundreds of swears in this book, usually multiple per sentence. Hawk was 15 but acted a lot older at times and a lot younger at times.
2) Max and Hawk were indistinguishable from each other. They both spoke the same (read: swearing), acted the same, and thought the same.
3) As I was reading, I was doing the math. Max had Hawk when she was 15/16?!?!

1 Star

Content: so much swearing, violence, death, torture, etc. (you get the idea) ( )

Trigger warnings: Experimentation, imprisonment

Looks like it's going to be full of action.
Update: 6/10, this felt more like a middle-grade than a YA novel, due to the writing style, the only thing making this book YA was the violence and the language. Most of the book was just pointless action scenes, the plot was very simple for a book like this, it's just some winged people living their lives in the City of the Dead, then they find out where Max is, and then try to stop the cartoonishly evil government figure called McCallum, and that's it, however, his backstory could be explained in the other books in the series I haven't read yet. The plot only picked up around the last 100 pages, and the ending was so unsatisfying, they realised McCallum was actually a person called Major Panda, and there's some bigger organisation controlling him. Also, why are so many people in the City of the Dead addicted to dope? If you want a better sci-fi book, try the Hunger Games series since it has just as much action as this book. ( )

This was ok and it was good to be back in Max's world but it felt different. I loved the first 2 books of Maximum Ride though. The chapters were short but instead of flowing. It felt abrupt. I still somewhat liked it though.

Review of The Angel Experiment 4 stars
Review of School's out forever 4 stars

Review of Saving the World and other extreme sports 3 stars




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There's another book!! This book was exactly what I expected it to be: fun, fast, and kind of flighty. This book had some attempted shocks (I kind of saw them coming from far away) and some unnecessary deaths (not sure why some people needed to die??). Overall though, I'm glad I read this. It did a good job of keeping characteristics of the original cast consistent, even when seen by an outside main character.

This would be a good book for a middle-grade reader or for a nostalgic college student. There was a bunch of action, but I mostly skimmed those parts to get to the character parts. It was enjoyable, I'll probably read the next one, but it wasn't a showstopper. ( )

Let me just say,BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR!!!!
I absolutely love this book,like seriously love it! The way it's edited is right on,it's a book you won't ever get tired of reading and let me just say thank you James Patterson for writing this book it was the best book I've read so far,like ever and I definitely will be reading more of your books:)
I can just imagine what it would be like to be Hawk,the way this book is written gets your mind going,and it's almost like there is no other way to imagine it!
100% guaranteed MUST READ THIS BOOK!!!!!
THANKS FOR READING,GOD BLESS ( )