Maximum Ride

You may not know this, but my favorite series EVER is Maximum Ride. Like, I own all the books in the series (2). And the third one came out. How did I not know that??? So I bothered my mom to bring me to the book store to buy it, but she says I'm too busy. Damn. (By the way, I just sent her an email telling her that if she happened to pass by Barnes and Noble or Borders or something, she should buy it for me).

[[Warning: Plot spoilers for Maximum Ride 1 and 2]]

I started reading Maximum Ride because my LA teacher read the prologue and the first like 5 pages out loud to my class and everyone got hooked on it. And she lent out the first book to this random kid, but he took FOREVER to read it, and I bothered my mom to take me to the bookstore. Sound familiar? Yeah. I bother my mom a lot. So she took me, and it turns out there was a sequel so I got both. And I loved both of em.

The first one was better, in my opinion (Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment). It starts off with Max's bad dream (Max is a girl) that she is being chased by human-lupine hybrids, otherwise known as Erasers. She wakes up, and it turns out she's a human-avian hybrid, and has wings and can fly. She lives with 5 other "bird-kids" and they are the Flock. Soon, the youngest one, Angel, gets kidnapped by the Erasers and they Flock goes on a trip to save her from the "white coats" or doctors, who injected the bird DNA into them when they were younger. After they rescue Angel, they head off to New York, looking for the Institute of Higher Living where there are supposedly files on where their real biological parents are. In New York, Max finds she has a Voice that speaks to her in her head, and the Voice tells her she needs to save the world. Once the Flock reaches the Institute, they print out papers with their names, parent names and house information on it. In that room, under NYC, there are cages and cages with mutant children in them. Max frees them all with the help of Iggy and Fang, thinking she is saving a world. Just when the Flock and the mutants are getting out of the room, Erasers attack. Max kills Ari, Jeb's seven year old son hom the white coats have turned into an Eraser, by accident. After that, the Flock goes to the DC, Virginia area to find their parents.

The second one (Maximum Ride: School's Out--Forever) has less of a plot. Or like no plot at all. So in the beginning of the book, the Flock gets attacked by Erasers. Except these Erasers can fly. Fang gets pretty beat up, and has to go to the hospital to get better. It's a little weird how Fang is always the one with the severe injury. But anyways, at the hospital, a bunch of FBI agents show up and start asking questions about the whole wings thing. Max gets loses her temper with her FBI agent and another one takes over and asks Max if she can take the Flock to her house to rest up and get better. Max agrees. The Flock goes to Anne's (the FBI agent) house, and hang there for a while. They break the code on the papers that say where their parents live, but it turns out its all crap. They are discouraged, but find Iggy's parents. Iggy goes away to live with his parents, then Erasers attack Anne's house. The Flock flies away, and Iggy meets them. They all go to Disney World and narrowly escape an Eraser attack. In Florida, Max is kidnapped and replaced by her clone. In the end of the book, Max and her clone meet and the white coats tell them they have to fight to the death to see which one is the real one. (I am NOT saying who wins, but if you are extremely nice to me and give me a cookie, I might tell you via email or IM. My email is irockandyouknowit03@yahoo.com and my IM is AlexTheSyko3.

In case you were wondering, the third book in the series is Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports by James Patterson. Did I really forget to mention James Patterson wrote this series? Whoops. Sorry. Well, I guess now you know.

--Alex [[is only the best and most sykotic person in the world]]