Amazing book.
Do you think that reading a novel centered around a group of genetically-altered kids is cliche`? Well, don't. Maximum Ride is epic. It gives hope to all of those geeky teenagers who fear that the purple-prose of Twilight is the best literature they'll get for their generation.
The story's main character is Max, a 14-year-old in charge of her "flock" - Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel. They're different from everyone else in that they are 2% avian ("I prefer Avian American" comes up in book two). They have wings, and good eyesight, and make the reader sigh in happiness as Patterson writes of them soaring through the air.
So they have bird in them. They're still teenagers though, kids really. Teenage and young-adult readers will be able to relate to at least one member of the flock (with the exception of Angel, she seems to be the only part in the book that irks me).
Not to mention the plot starts rolling from around chaper 4 (and since one annoyed reviewer complained of the short chapter length, that's like 20 pages - tops). You start it, and then you read it, and then you have three more lines until the end of the 20-some chapter but ooohhh, you have to keep reading!
Keep reading, it's good.
Right. Well, the plot starts going when 5-year-old Angel is kidnapped by a group of 'Erasers' - who are wolf/human hybrids that don't last so long. The flock's mission is to fly to California - to 'the school' where they were raised and experimented on until 2 years previous - to rescue her.... well, the exception being 14-year-old, blind Iggy and 8-year-old 8-year-old Gazzy.
Don't worry, once they blow up a few buildings they'll join the group.
Of course, it takes awhile for them to get to 'The School' seeing as how Max got herself into some trouble.
I'm starting a synopsis, aren't I?
Look, read it.
Love it.
Thank me.
Hah, I kid on that last part, but really - read it. :3
Do you think that reading a novel centered around a group of genetically-altered kids is cliche`? Well, don't. Maximum Ride is epic. It gives hope to all of those geeky teenagers who fear that the purple-prose of Twilight is the best literature they'll get for their generation.
The story's main character is Max, a 14-year-old in charge of her "flock" - Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel. They're different from everyone else in that they are 2% avian ("I prefer Avian American" comes up in book two). They have wings, and good eyesight, and make the reader sigh in happiness as Patterson writes of them soaring through the air.
So they have bird in them. They're still teenagers though, kids really. Teenage and young-adult readers will be able to relate to at least one member of the flock (with the exception of Angel, she seems to be the only part in the book that irks me).
Not to mention the plot starts rolling from around chaper 4 (and since one annoyed reviewer complained of the short chapter length, that's like 20 pages - tops). You start it, and then you read it, and then you have three more lines until the end of the 20-some chapter but ooohhh, you have to keep reading!
Keep reading, it's good.
Right. Well, the plot starts going when 5-year-old Angel is kidnapped by a group of 'Erasers' - who are wolf/human hybrids that don't last so long. The flock's mission is to fly to California - to 'the school' where they were raised and experimented on until 2 years previous - to rescue her.... well, the exception being 14-year-old, blind Iggy and 8-year-old 8-year-old Gazzy.
Don't worry, once they blow up a few buildings they'll join the group.
Of course, it takes awhile for them to get to 'The School' seeing as how Max got herself into some trouble.
I'm starting a synopsis, aren't I?
Look, read it.
Love it.
Thank me.
Hah, I kid on that last part, but really - read it. :3
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