Max: A Maximum Ride Novel

5th Book in the Maximum Ride Series
Title: Max: A Maximum Ride Novel
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
1st Edition 2009

I recommend “Max: A Maximum Ride Novel”.

I’m not really a James Patterson fan. I’ve read a couple of his Alex Cross detective novels. I enjoyed the first enough to read a second but then he lost me. Nevertheless, I just finished the 5th volume in his Maximum Ride series after reading the other four in order over the past two years. I anxiously await number six.

This series was intended for the young adult audience but I love it. It is science fiction and action adventure with Max, a charming adolescent girl with wings, as the protagonist. Max is the leader of a flock of six genetically engineered bird-kids who finds herself responsible for saving the world.

James Patterson uses this series to pander to the environmental movement. The antagonists are all evil corporations intent on world destruction through environmental devastation. I would normally put down a story with this political intent and setting after reading the back cover.

That I keep reading his Maximum Ride stories is a tribute to the enchanting characters he has created in Max, Fang, Angel, Nudge, Iggy, and Gazzy – the flock of bird kids. They are adorable and confused and fierce and determined.

I recommend reading them in order as shown below:

1st Book in the Maximum Ride Series
Title: Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
1st Mass Market Edition 2006
The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)

2nd Book in the Maximum Ride Series
Title: Maximum Ride: School’s Out Forever
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
1st Mass Market Edition 2007
School's" Out - Forever (Maximum Ride, Book 2)

3rd Book in the Maximum Ride Series
Title: Saving the World and other Extreme Sports
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
1st Mass Market Edition 2008
Saving the World (Maximum Ride, Book 3)

4th Book in the Maximum Ride Series
Title: The Final Warning
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
1st Edition 2008
The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)

5th Book in the Maximum Ride Series
Title: Max: A Maximum Ride Novel
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
1st Edition 2009
Max (Maximum Ride, Book 5)

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