The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)
by James Patterson
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Book Reviews of The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)
Book Review: A Way to Get Angel Back
Summary: 5 Stars
Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment was a spectacular page-turning fiction book. When you read this book you will not to be able to put it down until you finish it. Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment is about a fourteen-year-old girl named Maximum Ride. This book is about how Max and her gang were injected with DNA from a type of animal that never existed. One day Angel gets captured by these erasers. (Erasers are these half-wolf, half-human mutants) Max has lots of missions she has to do during this book, like saving Angel. She always doubts herself that she can't save Angel before they do bad experiments on her.
James Patterson is a very popular author. His Maximum Ride series was inspired by his best selling adult novels When the Wind Blows and The lake House. What I liked about the book was it has a lot of action and you can think about what Max is going through. The theme of this book is believe in oneself. You can always help each other out. I recommend that people should read this book. You will like this book so much.
Book Review: High-paced Action Thriller with Wings
Summary: 3 Stars
I've been seeing the "Maximum Ride" books strewn through my house for quite some time, and finally had to investigate whether the kids were on to a good thing this time or not. Well, now I will have to read the series!
This is a fun read - though clearly intended for young and restless readers. Each "chapter" covers only a few pages, and the episodes are brief. Breaks between the action are just barely there. Plot developments are barely plausible much of the time, and generally involve desperate battles.
But the basic story elements are all where they need to be, and the reader cannot help but be pulled in to this roller coaster of a series. Who can resist a young homeless teen girl struggling to be surrogate mom to a motley crew of younger children? While we are horrified at the plight of these kids - homeless, hunted, friendless, family-less - we also cannot help envying their strength, their speed, and most of all, THEIR WINGS.
Compulsively readable despite its shallowness.
Book Review: As a mom and an avid reader.
Summary: 3 Stars
Too much repetition in the dialog, and comic book like fantasy. It got better as it went along so I read number two and three.
A less well written "Twilight-type" fantasy series, mostly harmless for the young adult reader. I wouldn't be thrilled if my son read books like this exclusively, though I've read the first three books pretty quickly so there must be something to them. Hence the three stars. If it weren't so cold I'd call them good "beach books". Fluff with a lot of action and likable characters. The writing is just not demanding or enlightening in the quality of descriptions or the smoothness of the plots. I've read a lot of fantasy and some of them feel real. These plot turns and histories are awkward and artificial. Kind of like a comic book without pictures.
In sum. Easy to read, harmless, and mildly entertaining.
A much better series for young adult and adult fantasy is the Bartameus Trilogy. Deep Character traits that grow with each book.
Book Review: READ THIS BOOK
Summary: 5 Stars
Well the title of the series, "Maximum Ride," basically sums up the book for you: the main character's name is Maximum Ride, and her life is a maximum ride.
Maximum Ride and her 'siblings' are 98% human, 2% bird. Half-human, half-wolf creaures called Erasers' life's work is to hunt them down.
This book defines "action-packed."
You may think that this is a long read because of its number of pages, four-hundred and something I think, but the short chapters make it a fast read. I myself am a very slow reader, but I read this surprisingly fast.
If you don't feel like clipping your nails, I'm warning you, they'll be shorter before you know it from reading this book.
I don't think that there was one part in this book that bored me.
I haven't read book two of Maximum Ride, but I can't wait!!!!!!
If the rest of this series is as good as the first book, this will be an amazing series.
READ THIS BOOK. JUST READ IT. Thank me later.
Book Review: Dissapointed
Summary: 3 Stars
This book was fairly good in certain respects. It grabbed my attention early on. It was readable and fast paced. It was imaginative.
However...
In the long run, I was actually disappointed in it. The chapter breaks on every other page did not serve any real purpose or follow any reasonable form. The story started with difficulties and proceeded to the land of dark and tragic. And in the end there was no actual climax or conclusion. It was akin to reading a never ending teaser for a tragedy.
I'm not at all sure why the author worked so hard to achieve such feelings of hopelessness and such a sense of there being no possibilities of ever reaching a resolution for any of the problems of the main character, but I had to conclude for myself, that as I am not entertained by misery this story was very poorly contrived. I'm actually quite heartily sick of the dark and despair of authors who seem to need therapy and good drugs.