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Review Date: 8/4/2010
Helpful Score: 1
The first book in the Maximum Ride series was the best, for me. Max and her little family/flock of winged kids have escaped from a laboratory and they're trying to make their way in the world - hiding, foraging, and trying to keep off the radar of the people who made and caged them. In the first book, Max is a great heroine, her family are brilliant characters (especially Angel and Gasman) and the writing isn't preachy or repetitive like I'm afraid it's tended toward in the more recent installments.
Review Date: 8/4/2010
I never found Carrie very frightening, in a horror novel way; I found the story more sad than anything else. Outside of the title character's power of telekinesis - she is abused both physically and psychologically by her mother, bullied mercilessly, and eventually murdered by her own mother for simply being born.
Review Date: 5/24/2012
I received this book in the mail as a freebie somehow. I was interested at first because I have Jewish ancestry and the book claims to tell the stories of 10 amazing Jewish people. Then I read it. The writing itself is pretty good. The content, not so much. Every tale in it revolves around Jews who discovered that Christianity was 'the truth' - mostly as a result of the hateful behavior of other Jews, as the stories tell it. I don't even really want this book in my house anymore.
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