Oh no…the Maximum Ride books have officially turned "eco-friendly". What happened to all the crazy mad scientist stuff? "Millions of fish are dying off the coast of Hawaii and someone--or something--is destroying hundreds of ships. Unable to discover the cause, the government..." I read that in the description of this book on some website…Hmm, first it goes global warming––save the polar bears! Now…its saving fish……Anyone else miss the Erasers? I want the whole flock-running-for-their-lives-from More...

Okay, I officially spent two hours of my life reading the fifth Maximum Ride installment. I was very disappointed by the fourth one in particular, and a little bit so by the third. So, I sat down with MAX with no expectations whatsoever, because I wasn't going to allow myself to be disappointed by it. That was a good idea, because it wasn't all that good. Was it horrible? No ... But it wasn't great. It was better than the fourth, but -- of course -- it was nowhere near being as good as the first More...

i do not think it will be as good as the first three, the fourth was a let down. i personally like max better when shes on the run and kicking eraser/flyboy butt rather than saving the world

James Patterson is an excellent author but I feel like the momentum in this series is slowly down or getting old for me. There was better closure in this series. Yet I felt it lacked the buildup in excitement. Some of it lacked believability even for para normal. It is for YA so maybe they by it more, somehow I doubt it.

*bounces in waiting anticipation*

This was the BEST of the maximum Ride books! I loved it! It wasn't at all repetitive and it wasn't anything like the 4th one! There was adventure, romance, suspense, humor, sarcasm, and it was well wrapped up but lest you hanging. BEST MR BOOK EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I read it 2 times in 2 days and i am SOOOO excited to be reading it again. Fang, Total, Max, Angel, Gazzy, Iggy, and Nudge were AMAZING! READ IT!

I am sure that I might throw this at the wall while in the process of reading . . . Machine Geeks? Come on, Patterson, the Erasers were cooler than that. At least they actually FIGHT something in this one . . . I hope there will be some fang+max stuff . . . save the fish! not really though . . . it looks so gay . . . what happened to itex? i don't think they resolved everything of that matter in the first 3 books . . . i want some good stuff here! okay now i am just venting about how sucky they More...

I swear I can't live without knowing what is happening to the flock but I miss the action in the first few books and have the couples lost feelings? I liked it better when they were secretive it made me feel as if I were part of a big secret I hope this is better than the last becuase despite what I've writen I absolutly LOVE thse books. I must read on and you should to.
I have a good feeling about this one.

The 5th book was not as good as the first 3.(and the 4TH was better than this one!)It was was better than most books I have read but compared to the 1st 4 it was boring.

So I hope the 6th is better than the rest!

-Max Out

Another thrilling tale in the adventures of Maximum Ride as she and the flock try to save the world...again. This time Max and the flock are working with the Coalition to Stop the Madness (CSM) to try to educate people about the damage carbon fuels are doing to the world. Turns out there are some big wig business men who aren't to happy with the work of the CSM and they kidnap Max's mom to try to get her to stop. But if you know Max then you know that won't stop her! She gathers the flock to bea More...

I RLY WANNA READ THIS!

I cannot wait!

this book was an action. the main problem dealing in this book was global warming it has been affecting the hole world and they need to stop it. the main charecter is max she is the leader of the flock. the setting is pretty much everywere they go all over the contry. i liked this book alot. i liked it because of the action in this book its diffeerent than the other books. like how in the other books the erasers are always after them now they get cought and olmost sold for billions of dollars in More...

Maximum Ride = Marvelous Reading

As leader of her Flock, Max is tough and resilient. This bird girl does not give up on her mission to save the world and protect her Flock. She does it all with flair and a sarcastic edge. Despite endless betrayals and growing up in a lab, Max shows that she can have a soft side too.

The members of Max’s Flock are tight and they each have unique talents. Fang can disappear if he sits still long enough. Iggy sees everything in white. Nudge is magnetic. The Gasman is More...

Max is the 5th book in the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson. It is a sequel to The Final Warning and a prequel to Fang. I rated this book 5 stars because it had an interesting plot, a lot of cinematic action, adventures, surprises, and it was a very quick and easy read.

The main characters are Max, Fang, Iggy, Gazzy, Nudge, and Angel. The book starts of after the flock have barely even cooled off after the Antarctica event in The Final Warning. Dr. Martinez and her colleagues are part of an More...

Star Rating:
I gave this book five out of five stars.

Plot Summary:
In this book Max’s mom, Dr. Martinez gets kidnapped by a man named Mr. Chu who is keeping her in a sub. Throughout this book Max has to overcome many obstacles. From everything to the loss of a Flock member, from giant mutated whales, to relationship problems. Will this high flying girl be able to survive in this underwater world?

Main Characters:

Max: female/14/can fly/special powers: can fly super-fast, /has feelings for Fang

Fang: More...

this is nothing but my personal opinion and im not going to bash on james patterson but the first three original max books i read them as soon as they came out for the very first time they were amazing and i immediately fell in love with Patterson

for those of you who read the original three books now that i read the add ons i think his writing style has changed for the worst in my opinion i found books four and on pretty boring and read up till book 6 for the sake of my love of the orginal thre More...

El principio no me atrapó, estaba muy distraida y ando con un desespero por saber tanto que leo demasiado rápido, pero ya para la mitad y el final se puso buenísimo. La agarré con Nudge, ¿Cómo va a querer renunciar a algo tan genial como tener alas? ¿Y por una vida normal? JAajajajaja qué hablais mami. Se pasó, menos mal que volvió por que si no ni yo ni The Flock se lo perdonamos. La escena de Max y Fang con él diciendole I choose you me dió mucha risa, yo estaba como que: Max! Eres un Pokémon! More...

I don't know what has happened to this series??

After Book #3
WHICH WAS AWESOME by the way,the series has deteriorated. I couldn't even get myself to finish this one and book #4 was ok but not good!

The story


I'm sorry but what is happening??

Suddenly the focus is shifting to Global Warming and where are the criminals coming from and WHY are Max and Fang not together yet?? A little birdy told me (the spoiler could spoil the next books for you ) (view spoiler)[ that Max and Fang don't end up together and some Dyl (hide spoiler)] More...

The fourth book in the Maximum Ride series was such a huge disappointment that I almost didn’t want to continue reading the series. As much as I enjoy James Patterson and his books, The Final Warning was just downright terrible. There was such a major focus on Global Warming and the plot line was, well, there was no plot! I was nervous about reading Max, but I enjoyed the first three books in the series so I wanted to continue on. Plus, every great series typically has at least one book that isn More...

This series was downright awesome. A-W-E-S-O-M-E. Everything that we loved was in them. Explosions, running, chasing, some more running, bonding time, running, romance, running. Yes, it had it's small flaws. Like the fact that Angel was the love child of Charlie Sheen and Blossom from power puff girls. I mean, really. It got to a point where she was either too cutsey, too "WINNING!" or gaining a new power every two seconds. C'mon, we can all admit that the first time was pretty cool. Then the se More...

Ok, so. This book was very creative and had good ideas in it, but GLOBAL WARMING?!? I MEAN REALLY?? COULDN'T PATTERSON HAVE PICKED A BETTER TOPIC?!?!? I'VE HEARD ENOUGH ABOUT IT ALREADY!! It's not that i'm against it, I've just heard and read so much about it that it's getting annoying! At the end of the book, after the epilogue it said: "Save the world, just like Max at- www.maximumride.com!" *cheesey grin*. What was up with that??

although, as I read through the series, I find that Fang More...

This newest entry in the Maximum Ride series was fine. It had a lot of action, which is what I think James Patterson is talking about when he calls it a "pageturner." He's not overly concerned with plot, as the events of the story are basically the same as all the rest of the books--Max and the flock do some stuff, get chased, fight some new genetically enhanced enemies, and blow stuff up. And Max and Fang mope about each other. And then kiss.
The thing that bothers me about these books is that More...

Max is special. So is her family. Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy, and Angel. They aren't related, they aren't even completely human. In fact, only 98% of them is. The other 2%... makes them very different. It gives them strange abilities. Like the ability to... fly. Yes, Max and the flock are winged children. And they've done amazing things. Shut down a company trying to reduce the world's population... by one half, publicized global warming and pollution, and now Max's mother, Dr. Valencia Martinez h More...

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So far this is my favorite book in this series! Max’s mother gets kidnapped and is being held on a submarine in the Pacific Ocean. The entire flock flies to a naval base in Hawaii to help get her back. The only way that the navy will allow the flock on a submarine to save Dr. Martinez is to go through basic training.

Training with the navy in Hawaii was absolutely hilarious. The fact that Iggy and Gazzy referred to the training BS? Great! During the combat training, More...

After The Final Warning, I was really concerned for the Maximum Ride series. So concerned that I was pretty surprised when I saw that a new book was coming out in the series. However, Patterson pleasantly surprised me with the fifth book in the Maximum Ride series, Max. Instead of being preached at or being walked through some cliche story, I was treated to a fresh new adventure that breathed new life into the series.

At the opening of Max, Max and her fellow bird children have joined an organiza More...