Maximum Ride, Books 1 - 3 review

I hated reading, I think it was the most boring thing in the world, just sitting and reading text is all it is. There wasn’t a book alive that could make me want to read, until I was in my high school English class when we were forced to read a book called Maximum Ride: The Angel experiment. The cover was nice, it was an attractive young girl flapping her wings and swooping to her friends rescue. As we read it I was instantly hooked as where introduced to Max (Maximum Ride) and her family or “flock” of five other kids, named Fang (Max’s right hand man and possible boyfriend) Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy the gas man and the youngest one Angel and there wise cracking talking dog Total

The six kids were born as experiments where they ended up only 98% human and 2% bird (Avian) in a lab/prison called “The School” where they were forced to undergo horrendous experiments and stuffed in anime cages for the majority of there childhood until there rescued, fed and trained by a scientist named Jeb who Max and the rest of the flock trusted more then anyone in the world. Until he is supposedly killed but reappears after one of Max’s kin is kidnapped by the Schools only other experiments that made it passed infancy…Erasers, which are 98% human and 2% wolf.

After the flock member is kidnapped, it’s up to Max and her remaining family to get her back wail attempting to stay alive and not get murdered by the still numerous Erasers. I’ve read the trilogy and I’m still waiting to get my hands on “The final Warning” which is the forth book of the series.

I obviously don’t want to be a huge spoiler but ill just tell you this. James Patterson is a genius when it comes to getting inside the minds of 14 year old girls...at least I think so, but then again I’m male…plus I’m stupid. But anyways the book reads in a first person standpoint from its protagonist Max, but switches to third person when we shift to other characters, Most predominantly Ari, who is what might be the Schools most successful Eraser and Max’s former best friend way back when they were prisoners of the School.

The thrill James gives with the action sequences and the humor he dashes here and there can keep me laughing even until after I put down the book. Total is hilarious!!. And Max who is the mother figure to the kids of her Flock can throw a serious punch and roundhouse kick and you’ll always be looking at your own life in a new light when you read the book, as Max has to bare so many burdens and heart ach as she race to keep her friends safe.

I’m one hard headed idiot, and if someone’s capable of changing me or get me to do something that hundreds of other people failed miserably to try to get me to do then you seriously have to honor that person. Thanks to him I now read something other the manga!
/ [Tyler Junky]

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