The danger mounts just as the…. Max Ride and her best friends have always had one another's backs. Living on the edge as fugitives, they never had a choice. But now they're up against a deadly force that's racing across the globe, and just when they need him the most--Fang is gone. Being a kid with wings -- constantly on the run -- has never been easy, and Max and her flock are more tense than ever. Angel says that Fang will be the first to die, and Angel is never wrong.
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Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the "Flock" -- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel -- are just like ordinary kids -- only they have wings and can fly. After their last wild adventure, the Flock members are taken under the wing of an FBI agent and…. Max soars above the world. Maximum Ride and her "flock" -- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel -- are just like ordinary kids, only they have wings and….
Max rejoins them the next morning. Meanwhile, Angel is being badly mistreated at the School, forced to take part in exhausting and brutal experiments. She finds out that Jeb is alive and working with the School. Reunited, the five Flock members set off once more for the School. They stop at a strip mall, where they see a man using an ATM. Ari and the Erasers drive by and scare him off so quickly that he leaves his card behind, allowing the Flock to withdraw two hundred dollars.
They then steal a van and visit a fast food restaurant, each of them ordering a huge amount of food. They race out the exit with Erasers chasing after them and Max drives the van through a cornfield back onto a road where she immediately crashes into a sedan. Erasers surround the wreck and pull them out. Some time later, their cages are taken outside, but they break out just as Iggy and Gazzy return with the hawks from Lake Mead.
The Flock flies back to the caves there. Now homeless, they begin slowly traveling around. Max is experiencing horrible headaches and beginning to hear a Voice.
Angel tells them that she discovered more information about their real parents. As a result, they decide to go to New York to find the Institute for Higher Living , where they can find more files.
They arrive in New York and continue lying low, hiding from Erasers, and sleeping in the trees of Central Park. Eating food from street stands, they go to the New York Public Library of Humanities and Social Sciences and stay there doing research until closing time approaches and a security guard starts coming towards them. They run away and decide to take the subway to Central Park, but instead notice a light and follow it into an underground city in the abandoned tunnels.
They sleep there, but are woken up by a guy yelling about his broken computer and blaming Max. The next day, Max begins hearing the Voice frequently. It directs them around and they visit AFO Schmidt. Instead Angel telepathically convinces a woman to buy the bear, which she names Celeste.
While hurrying away, Max finds a bank card. Max thinks she notices Jeb among the policemen. They manage to access the bank card and withdraw more money. They visit the Building , hoping to find the Institute there. Max asks if the building has a basement, but the secretary just seems suspicious of them and they hurry out to avoid the security guards.
The younger kids ask to eat at a fancy restaurant called Garden Tavern. However, they get into trouble with the manager after ordering large amounts of food. When cops arrive, the Flock smashes out of the restaurant without their food and land in some trees, where they are caught by Erasers.
Ari has Celeste, but Angel telepathically forces him to give the bear back to her. However, Ari receives a call from the Director and the Erasers leave. I think I was so hooked on saving Angel from the School that once they accomplished that, it should have ended. But then they were talking about the Institute and blah, blah, blah I just was a teensy bit disappointed. But I loved it the second round.
And the third. She's such a strong leader, and a hilarious one. Her sarcasm and side thoughts crack me up on ever page. I'm fond of her thinking and her bravery to protect her family. I'm eager to see what she evolves into and how she deals with it. My first impression of him is this too-cool-for-you type guy. But really he's just shy in a not-shy kind-of way. He's ready to fight whenever, which isn't shy at all.
But feelings? As far as I know, he doesn't express them. You gotta work on that, Fang. Aww, I love Iggy. He's so, teenager-ish. I mean, there's really no other way to put it. He and his little sidekick the Gasman like to get into trouble. It's amazing what you can do when your blind, especially with Iggy. He's this mischievious whiz kid.
The Gasman. Even typing it makes me laugh. He's just as mischievious as Iggy, always getting into trouble, the two of them. They have this cute brother relationship and I love it. It's adorable to watch them. The hungry one. Haha, nah, Nudge is so sweet. I love how she's just this down-to-earth type kid.
And she kicks butt. What's cuter? And Angel. She's so adorable! It's funny how she hasn't picked up any curses with Max's potty mouth. Feb 20, Jennifer Carafa rated it it was amazing Shelves: young-adult. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.
To view it, click here. They have wings, can fly, and also posses super-human talents. They lived there as experiments until Jeb, a human scientist set them free. Each member of this group has been created with super-human abilities like great speed, strength, physic powers, and flight.
Angel, the youngest who is telepathic and can breathe underwater, is kidnapped by Erasers. Erasers are part human and part wolf and were also created at the School. The head of the Erasers is a kid name Ari. Max sets off to save Angel and on the way she see a girl getting bullied so she goes to help her and ends up getting shot in her wing. The girl, Ella, convinces Max to come home with her and she does.
Martinez helps Max and takes her to hospital to get help. There they discover that Max has a tracer in her arm that cannot be removed. When Max meets up with the rest of the flock they start to travel to the school again and end up getting attacked by the Erasers.
The erasers kidnap all of them except but Iggy and Gazzy. Max is brought back to the school and finds Jeb there where he discovers he was created to save the world. Finally Iggy and Gazzy show up with a flock of hawks and escape from the school. They discover another place called the Institute that knows about the flock and that they might have parents.
Max begins to get very sick and has head pains. Again the Erasers show up and Jeb is there. He tells Max that she needs to save the world and demands all the Erasers to leave. Max goes into the Institute and discovers that everyone of the Flock has a real name, parents. He prints out the list and realizes everyone lived near Washington, D. They decide to head to D. Max and Ari fight and then they hear a crack. Ari has broken his neck and dies.
He was the creator of the 1 new detective series of the past 5 years Maximum Ride series spent 20 weeks on the New York Timess best sellers lists and 14 of them were at 1. Drawbacks or other cautions: It seemed a little too impossible the way the characters super-human talents showed up right when they needed them. There was a lot going on throughout the book and then the ending ended very abruptly.
A bizarre plot with a terrible beginning. Without any sort of background we are plunged into action. It works for Riordan but unfortunately not here. Could not bring myself to read past the first 20 pages. Kids do NOT speak like that. You just sound like an adult trying too hard to talk in a way he thinks kids these days might talk.
Bad sentence formation just now, you say? Yeah, that about sums up your book. This series is a mess. The author took it in such a weird direction and really should have stopped after 3 books. However, this series especially this book was actually the reason I got so heavily into reading. I was in grade 6 at school age 11 when my friend in grade 7 told me they were reading this book in class. I begged mum to buy it for me because my friend really loved it.
By the time I got to grade 7 and read it in class, I had already read the first 3 books in the series. I actually This series is a mess. I actually made my best friend read them too and she borrowed them from me and we used to fangirl over them. Prior to reading this, I only read really short novels - around pages long. This was, what I would call, my first real novel. Also, it really opened my eyes to the fantasy world. I know a lot of people fell in love with reading through harry potter but I guess my reading journey was a little bit different!
As much as this series is all over the place and crazy, I really owe my love for reading to it and it will always hold a very special place in my heart.
Nov 23, Iris rated it really liked it. This is my first James Patterson, so I'm not entirely sure about his writing style, but I guess the way he's written this book was as if it was the protagonist.
Patterson writes in the voice of the girl hero Maximum Ride, and ends mostly with small cliffhangers, which compels the readers to continue reading. I couldn't really put it down; I kept wanting to find out what happened to the characters. Patterson didn't only place small cliffhangers at the end of the chapters, he added a huge one for This is my first James Patterson, so I'm not entirely sure about his writing style, but I guess the way he's written this book was as if it was the protagonist.
Patterson didn't only place small cliffhangers at the end of the chapters, he added a huge one for the next few? So far, there is nothing on that. While reading this book, another book came to mind: The Bar Code Tattoo.
In both, the experiment of combining avian and human genes were present, as were there being six "members". For both, one of the members were blind, and there were superpowers for them. As for the rest, it's better if you read it. I want to continue this series for various reasons: 1.
I want to see how she saves the world; 2. View all 3 comments. Dec 06, Phrynne rated it it was ok. I usually really enjoy YA books but this one was more young than it was adult and occasionally irritating because of that. Initially I thought I had picked up the series on the second book because of constant references to what has happened before. I ended up wondering why the author had not started his story at the beginning.
His characters were also very poorly drawn which made it difficult to be concerned about any of them. The story did become reasonably exciting and I read through to the en I usually really enjoy YA books but this one was more young than it was adult and occasionally irritating because of that.
The story did become reasonably exciting and I read through to the end. I will not however be reading any more of the series. I like James Patterson ' s adult books but will steer clear of his YA ones. Jan 25, marian rated it it was amazing. Jul 19, Duane rated it really liked it Shelves: fantasy , young-adult , rated-books , reviewed-books.
James Patterson's contribution to young adult fantasy. It's actually pretty good. I guess if you are a good writer you can write anything. Sep 28, Kahleia Corpuz rated it really liked it. It would've been enjoyable if I didn't read the manga and got all the spoilers from that. Also, the chapters weren't very effective when it came to the cliffhangers at the end of it because there were 3 pages in every chapter or less.
Personally, I enjoyed this a little less than the manga because it was perfect in that form. It's a very action packed book that deserves the pictures in that manga. Nov 05, George Jankovic rated it it was amazing.
What an action-packed book! Max Maximum Ride is one of six kids who were genetically engineered to be able to fly. The kids are all different but care for each other deeply as a family since they've never had another family.
They don't even know if they were test tube babies or if they had parents. How did they end up in the institution that experimented on them? That is just one of the mysteries that exist in the book. While I loved the pace and the cat-and-mouse game they play with their hunte What an action-packed book! While I loved the pace and the cat-and-mouse game they play with their hunters, it is these mysteries that made me turn pages.
For example, why do the hunters catch them then let them go? More than once. We get some of the answers in this book, but not all. View all 4 comments. An adventure story about young adults struggling to survive and discovering whom they are and why they were created along the way. Personal Response: A very fun and engaging book. I do not know of anyone that has not dreamed they could fly.
The characters are enjoyable and the special bond they have with each other and feel they're longing to belong to a family engages you. The characters make the reader think about what hate is and what purpose does it serve. Young adult book, kids in a house in the mountains with magical abilities, no parents.
Readers also enjoyed. Young Adult. Science Fiction. About James Patterson. James Patterson. He has sold over million books worldwide and currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most 1 New York Times bestsellers. In addition to writing the thriller novels for which he is best known, among them The President Is Missing with President Bill Clinton, Patterson also writes fiction for young readers of all ages, including the Max Einstein series, produced in partnership with the Albert Einstein Estate.
The son of an insurance salesman and a schoolteacher, Patterson grew up in Newburgh, New York, and began casually writing at the age of nineteen. In , he graduated from Manhattan College. Instead, he moved to New York to become a junior copywriter for the advertising agency J. In , while still working for J. James Patterson has donated more than one million books to students, focusing on some of the most under-resourced schools and youth programs in the country.
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