I want you, the reader, to take a moment and scroll down to the lists this novel has been shelved in. “Best Young Adult Books,” “Best Books Ever,” “What To Read After Harry Potter,” “Best Female Lead Characters,” and “Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Books”. If you haven’t guessed by the titles, these are pretty big and popular lists. If you click into them and view the lists, you will see that this book is pretty high up the ranks. And if you looked behind the book, you’ll see raving review after...

Now this is a terrible book.Written with all the wit and grace of a one-legged puppy, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment reveals its intentions within the first chapter alone. This is not a book of striking prose or even serviceable but entertaining MOR lit. It is merely a cash cow, another mindless series designed to appeal to reluctant readers. It is, in a word, soulless.Maximum Ride follows the adventures of six children, each of whom is the product of a genetic experiment: they are 98% human...

Take a bit of the child-like innocence vs. evil of Harry Potter, some of the artificially-created destiny from Ender's Game, throw in the flying fantasies from Eragon and mix them in with Patterson's trademark flippant characterization, and you've got Maximum Ride. This is the book I'm going to recommend when everyone's recovering from the end of Harry Potter later this month. Really. It's that good. And the best part is there are two more books after this one. There's already a waiting list for...

2.5 Stars! “The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”Well that was fun, i LOVED MAX she was great, annoying at times. but funny, and loving big sister. The writing was okay, The story had potential but was poorly executed.

This book was okay, but I just felt like it didn't have a lot of substance. I didn't really take anything away from it, almost like it didn't have a lot of deep meaning. And it wasn't terribly entertaining, either. I just would have liked the characters to be a little deeper, I guess. I doubt I will read the rest of the series. Reviewed for: http://inthehammockblog.blogspot.com/

Nothing massively wrong with it but the writing was just way too young for me.

Do Not Finish at page 145.I want to finish this book, but after a while I remember life is too short for reading one crappy book after another.If I read The Angel Experiment when I was 12 years old, I guess I would have been oh-so impressed.But readers who possess the mental maturity of a 13 years old or above are free to skip this book.And James Patterson, I'm blacklisting you. I will not read any other of your books. Trick me one, shame on you; trick me twice, shame on me.

hear me when i say this: nothing, ever, in my human life on this planet, will hit for me like this book about orphan kids with wings living together in a weird boxcar-children scenario in the aftermath of being experimented on, who are then kidnapped for more experimenting on, hit for me in the fifth grade.i mean, me and my friends started a spontaneous book club. at the age of ten. just to accommodate how intensely we felt about this book.that's once in a lifetime.part of a series i'm doing in

Well that wasn't too bad! You have six kids that are human and have some bird in them. Huh, and all this time I thought they were angels 😄 Goes to show you have to read to know. I'm glad this was on one of my challenge lists because I have wanted to read it. I think I will keep checking them out on Overdrive to see what else happens. I mean they all escaped and have people/things after them. Happy Reading! Mel ❤️

Reader thoughts: Max is a sarcastic and tough teen with amazing wings. She's leader of her flock of bird kids, and they work hard to stay away from the troublesome adult scientists. Max struggles to keep her flock together, discover her destiny, and save the world while she's at it.Finding their parents would be a nice bonus, too, if only the whitecoats would stop trying to kill them.(Sadly, only the first 3 books of the series are good. But they are so good!)Writer thoughts: It's amazing that

Warning:If you dare to read his story,you become part of the Experiment.I know that sounds a little mysterious-but it’s all I can say right now.-MaxI read a lot of Patterson adult thrillers, and after a while, I kind of got bored of him (I mean how many sequels can a book have?!). So, with that said, I had really low expectations for this one, but the book really took me by surprise. This book is just pure fun. 400 pages of action packed fun, that leaves you wanting more. I also found out that I...

All the way back in 2007, I discovered the Alex Rider series by listening to an audiobook version of the first book, Stormbreaker. I'd seen the celluloid adaptation advertised in Nintendo Power, but it flopped, and, as I now know after seeing it, for good reason. Though I was already a Facebook member, they didn't have all the apps and such like they do now, so, I posted a review of it on the only place I knew to do so: Amazon. Soon after, that humongous shopping website recommended the Maximum

Alright, I thought the narration on this book was way cheesy initially. But, like the bookcrazy girl I am who is a sucker for a good story, I got sucked in. This book is many things:*Fun aimed at kids, but fun that an adult who isn't terribly cynical and superior could enjoy.*Penetrating, insightful look at human nature and society (don't laugh--it is).*Utterly disturbing view of the unscrupulous applications of modern science. I truly did feel my stomach lurch at some of the experimentation on

3 Stars for The Angel Experiment: Maximum Ride Series Book 1 (audiobook) by James Patterson read by Evan Rachel Wood.I think I was expecting more out of Patterson. This feel like light character development was little action. I think I’ll pass on the series.

1.5 stars. On the "plus" side, this novel has a very interesting premise and the book was a very fast read. On the "negative" side, there is not a whole lot of substance to the story and the character development is weak. I was really hoping that the author would do something really great with the very cool concept of children genetically enhanced with avain DNA, but it just didn't happen. Bottom-line, the book, while not horrible, was one I really didn't like.

Title: The Angel ExperimentAuthor: James PattersonSeries: Maximum Ride #1Rating: ★★★★★ Summary: In James Patterson's blockbuster series, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride, better known as Max, knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of the "flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It may seem like a dream come true to some, but their lives can morph into a living nightmare at any time...like when Angel,...

The only reason this book doesn't get five stars from me is because I'm so confused by some things. But I liked it A LOT. A lot a lot. First, I didn't feel like it really went anywhere. It's like you can tell it's trying to go somewhere but it's not really doing it. Basically, this book was just full of the flock running, getting caught, running, getting beat up, running, getting chased by the cops, running... Over and over. After a while it was kind of predictable (not to mention painful). It t...

1.5 stars I’m sorry, but this was awful. I listened to the audio of this book, the narrator is Evan Rachel Wood and she’s pretty excellent so if you wish to listen to this book I recommend it. That being said, this story was all over the place, it would be convoluted but more like giant chunks of backstory were missing, and all the teens did was fly around and constantly get attacked. Then something at the end happened that made my stomach curl and completely killed what little of the book I en

One of my students recommended this book, and while I was intrigued by the premise, and the fact that the protagonist is a female action hero, I found the dialogue beyond basic (only an adult would imagine that kids really communicate like this) and the plot was a liitle repetitious. it's part of a trilogy - but I don't care enough about these characters to read more.

Whoa!!! This book is sooo good. It's really, really, REALLY fast-paced and action-packed. Even the very first chapter throws you headfirst into straight-on action. It's a very easy read, with short chapters that flow right into the other with cliffhangers. It's not something you can start/stop reading; once you start, there's no turning bag. You're dragged into the story from the very first page, willingly or not, and nothing can tear you from the book- only forceful things, like school, homewor...