The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)
by James Patterson
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Author: James PattersonEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2008-03-17
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Book Reviews of The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)
Book Review: The Final Warning: Global-boring
Summary: 3 Stars
Title: The Final Warning by James Patterson
Pages: 255.
Time spent on the "to read" shelf: 1 year.
Days spent reading it: 1 day.
Why I read it: This is the fourth book of a series, need I say more?
Brief review: It is clear that James Patterson can write a book. I enjoy reading his stuff. He's a light, quick, easy read. So of course I still enjoyed reading The Final Warning. Mostly because I just relax when I read Patterson's stuff.
Having said that, this series is increasingly becoming less and less interesting. Patterson moves to a plot purely driven by the dangers of global warming--culminating in a hurricane that "was caused by global warming" towards the end of this book. I find that simply ridiculous.
Another way in which Patterson is beginning to falter is finding a good bad-guy. It seems that the old ones were not up to snuff, and so he created (I'm not kidding here) The Uber-Director, a brain in a jar who masterminds the capture and auction of Max and her flock. If it sounds silly, it is silly.
This book seemed rushed. It is about 100 pages shorter than any other Maximum Ride novel so far (and they're not that long!). It was also released almost before the previous book was out in paperback.
I know Patterson is a writing machine, but I hope that for the next installment (which I already have, and Susan has read), that Patterson slowed down some, established a solid nemesis, and begins to wrap things up. He is becoming predictable and boring. This is not helped by his tirades on global warming. I'm all about people sharing their beliefs about global warming. But this book was a little on the absurd side.
If you've read Maximum Ride, you'll read this one, but unless the series reclaims it's original grandeur, I'm getting close to checking out. I enjoy reading Patterson's stuff, but there is only so much that I can take. And that's my final warning.
Favorite quote: "You stand out like a fart in church."
Stars: 3 out of 5.
Final Word: Global-boring.
Summary of The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)
"Three cheers! Max is one of the smartest, strongest, funniest heroines around." - Diane Garrett, Diane's BooksIn this breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson, a girl has to save herself from an army assembled just to capture her-and maybe save the planet while she's at it.
Maximum Ride is a perfectly normal teenager who just happens to be able to fly, the result of an out-of-control government experiment. Max and the other members of the Flock-six kids who share her remarkable ability-have been asked to aid a group of environmental scientists studying the causes of global warming. The expedition seems like a perfect combination of adventure, activism-and escaping government forces who watch the Flock like a hawk.
But even in
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