In general I do not enjoy James Patterson novels as I find them predictable and formulaic but for some reason I quite enjoy the Maximum Ride series. I found the characters to be interesting and I found the story to be fascinating. I liked how it was fantastical but also believable enough that it felt like the vents could maybe actually happen. The writing style is very readable if a bit simplistic. ( )

A final farewell to the Flock ( )

Absolutely fabulous. The best book I've read in a long time. ( )

Absolutely fabulous. The best book I've read in a long time. ( )

It was quite a page turner, but so many of the events just left me feeling incredulous. The timeline of events was very unclear and I'm still not sure what timeframe the book was supposed to span.

Max & the other kids seem so much more unreal in this one, they've never behaved much like kids but here they're on a whole other level. They fly around the world from continent to continent seemingly in no time at all. Any new characters seemed very simple and not very fleshed out.

It is a satisfying ending though, much more so than the last book. I think if we could have just skipped to this ending though without destroying the world it would have made so much more sense. This book was very wacky and felt very forced. ( )