School's Out - Forever (Maximum Ride, Book 2)
by James Patterson
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Book Reviews of School's Out - Forever (Maximum Ride, Book 2)
Book Review: Great - until:
Summary: 3 Stars
I loved the first book in this series. The plot was good (I thought it was complex; I don't know about you), but maybe a half-star off because of its overall unoriginality. I was kind of struggling to enjoy this book... call me ridiculous, but I had to stop reading because of Fang.
Fang is like a character straight out of a horribly bad fanfiction. Good looking, awesome, powerful, awesome, popular with girls, tall-and-dark-super-overratedly-popular type, handsome, Mr. Cool, awesome. Blah blah blah... okay, I got so tired of him, I ditched the series. The 6th book is even called Fang, I think, and it seems as if the whole series revolves around him. He's obviously Patterson's favorite character; it's glaringly obvious. Please get rid of Fang, erase him from our minds, and I will gladly read this otherwise pretty good series.
Book Review: This one's OK, but the final in the series is lousy - beware!
Summary: 3 Stars
I recognize that this book is written for a younger audience, but I thoroughly enjoyed both #1 & this one in the series. However, when I read the third one I was completely disappointed. I really wish I had never gotten started. I'm rating this with 2 stars even though I enjoyed the book because it is part of a series and the conclusion to the series was so lousy I would have wanted to know ahead of time...
NOTE: My rating is due to the conclusion of the series and not this specific book. I'm not saying I didn't like how the author chose to end it - I'm saying that the last book doesn't tie up loose ends and as such leaves you with a "where's the last 50 pages?" feel...
If you're interested in why I disliked #3 so much just click the "see all my reviews" button and look for my review of that book.
Book Review: A Maximum Ride
Summary: 5 Stars
The book Maximum Ride School's Out Forever was a very exciting read. The book starts off right where the first book left off. Max, Iggy, Fang, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel are on a quest to find their parents. About a quarter of the way through the book, Iggy finds his family. He soon finds out that they only want him for the publicity that he carries with him. That is because all six kids are human-avian hybrids. This means that they are half bird, half human. I won't give anything else away, but that the book grabs ahold of you and won't let you go. I recommend that when you finish reading this review that you go and get a copy of this book. Enjoy!Book Review: Better than the first
Summary: 4 Stars
The second installment in the Maximum Ride series allows for the characters to grow in a way that wasn't possible in the first. While other reviewers are dissapointed in the lack of beginning-middle-end type of storytelling, it was nice to see these kids get a chance to truly be kids for a while, even if it means they go to school and have Thanksgiving dinner with a shady FBI agent. While this hold over in Virginia doesn't make for the most exciting read, it gives these hard running, hard fighting kids a chance to regain their bearings and focus on the hunt for their birth parents. This was a fast fun read.Book Review: What happened??
Summary: 2 Stars
This is the first and only book of the series I'll read. At first it was like "The lake House" or "When the Wind Blows", those were books. Then the story went completely out of everything, for instance: from where the flock had money to eat? To crash on an hotel? To ride a car without gas? Be aware I'm not talking about Disney World because they entered there flying. So what an example to the kids this book was written for? To enter to a theme park for free? Not paying for what you'll use? You'll teach that to your children? I'm definitely not.