Maximum Ride: MAX

James Patterson is now my #1 favorite author, now that I've read the entire Maximum Ride series. Read about the first book here.
You know how I said in the last Maximum Ride post, I ordered the next 3 books? Tough luck for me, the second and third book got back ordered until like, 2 weeks later. So all I got was the 4th book. Okay, yes. It felt so weird to all of a sudden not have a book you want to always read. You want to wake up in the middle of the night, grab your iPod for some light, and flip open the book. It just felt there was something missing. I didn't have anything to read on the bus, or during silent reading time in school, or just read at home. Well, technically I did have something to read, just not as addicting as the Maximum Ride books.

My favorite thing about these books, is the humor and language in it. I love the voice of Max, when she's just describing the situation and exaggerating to make it sound really awful- which most of the time it actually is pretty dang awful. I find myself laughing out loud, and sometimes my friends would just stare at me.

Out of the many characters in this book, my favorite is most likely Max. Why? Hmmmm.... I guess I love how she describes the situation like I said earlier, I love her sarcasm, and her personality. Like, whenever a doctor of some sort or a scientist of some sort is trying to help them out, like giving them food and shelter, but having to do _______ and ______ for them. Usually the price she has to pay isn't a great deal. Max always gives the guys (especially Jeb, trying to help out always) this bad attidude and she's all, 'Why should I?' and 'How come?' and 'Listen up. We're freaking bird kids, and you want us to do ____ for you? Not happening.' and then they argue even more, and Max is all, 'The deal's off. Now leave me alone.' She handles a lot of conversations with the scientists and doctors like that, with the attitude. Oh, Max. You crack me up.

Things get crazy in this book. We're talking about mutant bird kids going underwater, trying to save Max's mom in a submerine, while at the same time trying to beat up these weird sea monsters that keep attacking, in the waters right next to Hawaii. Pretty insane. First they fly up in the air, as free as a bird. Technically, they are already 2% bird. So there you go. Next thing you know, they're going the opposite: underwater. Believe it or not, one of them can actually breathe underwater. Finally that skill comes in handy.

That previous paragraph pretty much describes the entire 5th book, minus Max + Fang's relationship. Long story short (because I'd rather not go into the gushy details): Max has fallen deeply in love with Fang. Fang loves Max back, and they can't get enough of each other. Get the picture?!

This book is in the 9-12 range of reading age groups, but I don't think you should read it until you're 11 or 12, because of the violence, and the romance gets a little weird for the younger ones.

I've done my research on the movie: The Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment movie comes out sometime next year in 2010. That's all that they have told us on the internet. I've heard things about a 6th book coming out. Some places I've heard it's called 'Water Wings' and some places I've heard it's called 'Space Wings' I'm not even sure if there's going to be a sixth book, but I definetly hope there will be one coming out soon, because without the Maximum Ride books to read, I'm stuck with nothing to read.