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celestial_ink's review
2.0
I love have loved Maximum Ride for over a decade but the fact this book not only exist but was considered okay by James Patterson (aka his ghost writers) still blows my mind. I remember counting down the days to the RIP Max Ride Nevermore book launch so imagine my surprise when I'm walking through the books at Walmart one random day years later and suddenly there's a new addition to the series.
I bought it instantly excited JP had decided to continue the series that made me love reading in the first place but this book was NOT what I was expecting.
It feels so disconnected from the other eight books and I officially call this book 'The Canon Fanfiction' addition to the series to anyone whose asked me about it. That is literally all this book is. It takes every trope and every weak plot from 89% of the Maximum Ride fanfiction you can find online and complies it into a mess of a story. This book is the second worst thing to happen to the fandom since the flop of a movie adaptation and is closely followed by the predecessor series that is stomping over the ashes of the fandoms once strong flames.
If you love Max, Fang and the flock, do yourself a favor and do not read beyond Nevermore.
I bought it instantly excited JP had decided to continue the series that made me love reading in the first place but this book was NOT what I was expecting.
It feels so disconnected from the other eight books and I officially call this book 'The Canon Fanfiction' addition to the series to anyone whose asked me about it. That is literally all this book is. It takes every trope and every weak plot from 89% of the Maximum Ride fanfiction you can find online and complies it into a mess of a story. This book is the second worst thing to happen to the fandom since the flop of a movie adaptation and is closely followed by the predecessor series that is stomping over the ashes of the fandoms once strong flames.
If you love Max, Fang and the flock, do yourself a favor and do not read beyond Nevermore.
sienna727's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
idahobekah's review
2.0
The ending wasn't very satisfying. I am excited to start the new "Hawk" series though.
everythingeverywhereallatonce's review
I just couldn’t finish it, I got bored with the plot and felt like it was moving too fast and too slow. I know it was a sci fi book but it was just so far fetched.
sam_hartwig's review
This is a DNF.
I loved these books once upon a time, and I don't know when it was that I stopped loving them.
I got to almost 80 pages and I was thinking 'I don't really care about these characters anymore'. I still wanted to know what happened, but couldn't be bothered to continue reading so I decided to look up the plot on the internet.
Reading the condensed version was a lot better. If James Patterson decides to write another one I won't be reading it. But I will continue reading the manga because it's so pretty.
I loved these books once upon a time, and I don't know when it was that I stopped loving them.
I got to almost 80 pages and I was thinking 'I don't really care about these characters anymore'. I still wanted to know what happened, but couldn't be bothered to continue reading so I decided to look up the plot on the internet.
Reading the condensed version was a lot better. If James Patterson decides to write another one I won't be reading it. But I will continue reading the manga because it's so pretty.
enbylievable's review
1.0
James Patterson demonstrates yet again how he favors quantity over quality. I expected bottom of the barrel content and I'm still disappointed. Every book after The Final Warning becomes more juvenile and more reminiscent of an 11- year-old's fanfiction. Someone take this man's keyboard away.
chelsea2020's review
3.0
First of all, a message to all you haters: "No, YOU can stop." No one is asking you to keep reading this dang series. Some of us are in it for the long haul, and happily so. So, on behalf of myself and the rest of the Maximum Ride fans who are tired of seeing your crap, just STOP. We would be much obliged. Have a nice day and go take your comments to a series that truly deserves the hate, like Divergent or Twilight.
Review for Maximum Ride Forever:
This is not the Maximum Ride that I have come to know, love, and adore since after I first started reading series books. She is not the strong, independent female heroine that I have come to respect, and who has inspired me in numerous unspeakable ways. She crumbles at the slightest turn in events. She fails to stand on her own and becomes less and less the leader figure that the flock had always followed. I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in one I love as I am with Max. All I can say is, "What happened?"
Also a major let-down is Fang's now inevitable disappearing act when things start to get real. I cannot even begin to express my conflicting feelings of absolute fury and utter despair at his leaving Max ONCE AGAIN. I won't say again that leaving is never the answer; that, in order to succeed, you must stick to the one who will help you to do so; that two is ALWAYS better than one; and that life only goes downhill from the moment you leave the one you love. I won't say it again. I can't. It just hurts too damn much to think about. It's the same song-and-dance, and it's gotten old very fast. I am completely over this bullshit and wanting to put it behind me as soon as possible.
What can I say about Angel? I never noticed it before (or maybe I've just been kidding myself), but she is no longer the sweet little girl that I once adored as wholly as Max did. Now, she is as manipulative and conniving as The School, The Doomsday cult, and the scientists put together. In fact, she has been since we were introduced to my second least favorite person (thought not by much) in this entire f'ed up series; Dylan. Possibly, she has been since even before that. Once, I longed to hold the poor girl close to my heart and never let her go. Now, I just wish she truly had perished during the bombings in "Angel." But then again, maybe I don't. Maybe I can't. Maybe that's just the anger speaking. Despite all she's done and all the pain she has helped to orchestrate, I still can't hate the girl. Not really. She is just as much a daughter to me as she is to Max, and for that I can't hate her.
And then, there's Dylan. I swear to Heaven on high that everything was just right and dandy in my world until YOU came along. Seriously, what good are you to this book except for fucking up everything we know to be good and true in this series?? Angel was arguably fine until you came along and no one gave a flying flip about who Max paired up with because we all knew it would be Fang, and that it will ALWAYS BE FANG. Moreover, why is it even still a question as to whether Max wants you or Fang? She wants Fang, END OF STORY! So back the F up dude!! Go screw with someone else's head and stay the flip away from my OTP!!
Book 1-Apocalypse:
The world has fallen to ruins and it seems that the only ones left alive are the mutant kid, few remaining survivors, and the villains who started it all. The bad guys are still alive and kicking, making it seem like the apocalypse may not have been as unintended as we may have believed.
I don't know what to make of this beginning. The last book ended with a world drowned by water and high-rising vegetation teeming with mutant-kid life. It seemed like Max was going to step up to pick up the pieces and lead the new world to prosperity. This book has her and her flock fleeing an active volcano (though half of her flock should be trapped down in the underwater caves with Max's mom and half-sister, which by the way we are uncertain as to whether they are actually still living). How things came to be as they are now, three months after The Event (as Max calls it) we do not know. But somehow we are just supposed to accept that it is what it is. Whatever.
The bond between the flock is falling to pieces and it just might be Splitsville for this feathery family, and I have got to say, I am not the damnedest bit happy about this. Not happy at all. This split may just cost the flock their lives.
Book 2-Evolution Gone Wrong:
If you can't trust your family, then who in the world is left to trust? The gang has officially split up, almost all of the kids flying off in a different direction. They could not have spilt up at a worse time. The Horsemen are coming for them, and they won't stop until every last one of their little flock is dead. Without the full power of the flock together, they will find themselves in for the fight of their lives, and facing beings programmed to be far superior (more enhanced) than themselves, this may be their last battle.
Here we meet characters of new and old; an old member of Fang's Gang, a couple of boy geniuses from the past, and a new feathered companion called Harry (a mutant bird-kid, more bird than human), will find their paths intertwined the flock's. We have yet to see just what kind of impact these unanticipated additions will make.
Harry is a little doll-bird that I just want to take home with me and love with all my heart. I definitely get the matronly feeling that Max has for the feathered boy. He is jut too amazing for words, and super strong to boot! He is just what Max needed to boost her sinking spirits. So glad that he is along for the ride.
Book 3-Witness:
The final battle is upon us and Angel has rallied a troop of thousands in the hopes of defeating the Remedy for good and save the last fragmented prices of the world left. She has finally become the leader that she was always convinced she was and leads her band of misfit survivors in the final battle again humanities greatest evil. This is the end and beginning of a world's era.
Conclusion:
At the end of the day, I can't truly be satisfied with the way things went in this book. The absolute joy and rapture of the epilogue was not enough to make up for the complete and utter despair of the entire rest of the book. This book did not go at all how I had imagined and hoped and prayed that it would, and for that I cannot be very happy with this conclusion. A book is supposed to be a balance of harshness and lightness, but this book left me in a continuous state of beat down and agony. It killed me with each word I read, trying to convince myself that it would get better, or at least that it couldn't get any worse. This book proved me wrong a hundred times over. I wish that the series had left well-enough alone and that the series truly had ended with this book's predecessor "Nevermore."
Review for Maximum Ride Forever:
This is not the Maximum Ride that I have come to know, love, and adore since after I first started reading series books. She is not the strong, independent female heroine that I have come to respect, and who has inspired me in numerous unspeakable ways. She crumbles at the slightest turn in events. She fails to stand on her own and becomes less and less the leader figure that the flock had always followed. I don't think I have ever been so disappointed in one I love as I am with Max. All I can say is, "What happened?"
Also a major let-down is Fang's now inevitable disappearing act when things start to get real. I cannot even begin to express my conflicting feelings of absolute fury and utter despair at his leaving Max ONCE AGAIN. I won't say again that leaving is never the answer; that, in order to succeed, you must stick to the one who will help you to do so; that two is ALWAYS better than one; and that life only goes downhill from the moment you leave the one you love. I won't say it again. I can't. It just hurts too damn much to think about. It's the same song-and-dance, and it's gotten old very fast. I am completely over this bullshit and wanting to put it behind me as soon as possible.
What can I say about Angel? I never noticed it before (or maybe I've just been kidding myself), but she is no longer the sweet little girl that I once adored as wholly as Max did. Now, she is as manipulative and conniving as The School, The Doomsday cult, and the scientists put together. In fact, she has been since we were introduced to my second least favorite person (thought not by much) in this entire f'ed up series; Dylan. Possibly, she has been since even before that. Once, I longed to hold the poor girl close to my heart and never let her go. Now, I just wish she truly had perished during the bombings in "Angel." But then again, maybe I don't. Maybe I can't. Maybe that's just the anger speaking. Despite all she's done and all the pain she has helped to orchestrate, I still can't hate the girl. Not really. She is just as much a daughter to me as she is to Max, and for that I can't hate her.
And then, there's Dylan. I swear to Heaven on high that everything was just right and dandy in my world until YOU came along. Seriously, what good are you to this book except for fucking up everything we know to be good and true in this series?? Angel was arguably fine until you came along and no one gave a flying flip about who Max paired up with because we all knew it would be Fang, and that it will ALWAYS BE FANG. Moreover, why is it even still a question as to whether Max wants you or Fang? She wants Fang, END OF STORY! So back the F up dude!! Go screw with someone else's head and stay the flip away from my OTP!!
Book 1-Apocalypse:
The world has fallen to ruins and it seems that the only ones left alive are the mutant kid, few remaining survivors, and the villains who started it all. The bad guys are still alive and kicking, making it seem like the apocalypse may not have been as unintended as we may have believed.
I don't know what to make of this beginning. The last book ended with a world drowned by water and high-rising vegetation teeming with mutant-kid life. It seemed like Max was going to step up to pick up the pieces and lead the new world to prosperity. This book has her and her flock fleeing an active volcano (though half of her flock should be trapped down in the underwater caves with Max's mom and half-sister, which by the way we are uncertain as to whether they are actually still living). How things came to be as they are now, three months after The Event (as Max calls it) we do not know. But somehow we are just supposed to accept that it is what it is. Whatever.
The bond between the flock is falling to pieces and it just might be Splitsville for this feathery family, and I have got to say, I am not the damnedest bit happy about this. Not happy at all. This split may just cost the flock their lives.
Book 2-Evolution Gone Wrong:
If you can't trust your family, then who in the world is left to trust? The gang has officially split up, almost all of the kids flying off in a different direction. They could not have spilt up at a worse time. The Horsemen are coming for them, and they won't stop until every last one of their little flock is dead. Without the full power of the flock together, they will find themselves in for the fight of their lives, and facing beings programmed to be far superior (more enhanced) than themselves, this may be their last battle.
Here we meet characters of new and old; an old member of Fang's Gang, a couple of boy geniuses from the past, and a new feathered companion called Harry (a mutant bird-kid, more bird than human), will find their paths intertwined the flock's. We have yet to see just what kind of impact these unanticipated additions will make.
Harry is a little doll-bird that I just want to take home with me and love with all my heart. I definitely get the matronly feeling that Max has for the feathered boy. He is jut too amazing for words, and super strong to boot! He is just what Max needed to boost her sinking spirits. So glad that he is along for the ride.
Book 3-Witness:
The final battle is upon us and Angel has rallied a troop of thousands in the hopes of defeating the Remedy for good and save the last fragmented prices of the world left. She has finally become the leader that she was always convinced she was and leads her band of misfit survivors in the final battle again humanities greatest evil. This is the end and beginning of a world's era.
Conclusion:
At the end of the day, I can't truly be satisfied with the way things went in this book. The absolute joy and rapture of the epilogue was not enough to make up for the complete and utter despair of the entire rest of the book. This book did not go at all how I had imagined and hoped and prayed that it would, and for that I cannot be very happy with this conclusion. A book is supposed to be a balance of harshness and lightness, but this book left me in a continuous state of beat down and agony. It killed me with each word I read, trying to convince myself that it would get better, or at least that it couldn't get any worse. This book proved me wrong a hundred times over. I wish that the series had left well-enough alone and that the series truly had ended with this book's predecessor "Nevermore."
sweetrosegirl76's review
3.0
So glad to be finished with it. It was boring and really hard to read because I didn't want to read it. The only part that I liked were the last 30 pages because Fang was there and also because of the baby... I don't know I just didn't like it as much as I wanted to. I also wish that her pregnancy was extended a bit AND NOT SAVED FOR THE LAST 30 PAGES and some more written about the years between being pregnant and Phoenix being 5. The obsessive reader in me wants the series to keep expanding but the realistic side of me knows that this is enough. 9 books is enough, especially since the only books that were amazing and really original and just awesome were the first 4. The series went downhill after that... Just repetitive... That saddens me because I loved them all deeply and now I'm just a bit apathetic towards the story.
I knew that she was going to be pregnant at the end of the series I kept reading to see if either Dylan or Fang would be the father blah blah, I kept waiting for the sex scenes, waiting to see how this started, but I didn't see it... only after she mentions Fang leaving and "that last night" do I realize that I already read the sex scene. It was weird, it just sounded like they kissed for a bit then fell asleep... I'm not saying it needs to be over the top like 50 Shades, but at least make it obvious? I was so confused...
I don't like how Ella and Dr. Martinez were mentioned maybe twice then that was it... Also, now that I know that Dylan was A10103, I feel like I should read it again because that made no sense to me... But I also really didn't enjoy this book and don't wanna read it again lol
I knew that she was going to be pregnant at the end of the series I kept reading to see if either Dylan or Fang would be the father blah blah, I kept waiting for the sex scenes, waiting to see how this started, but I didn't see it... only after she mentions Fang leaving and "that last night" do I realize that I already read the sex scene. It was weird, it just sounded like they kissed for a bit then fell asleep... I'm not saying it needs to be over the top like 50 Shades, but at least make it obvious? I was so confused...
I don't like how Ella and Dr. Martinez were mentioned maybe twice then that was it... Also, now that I know that Dylan was A10103, I feel like I should read it again because that made no sense to me... But I also really didn't enjoy this book and don't wanna read it again lol
littlewhiterabbitreads's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.25