Customer Reviews
Excellant 
2008-07-10
The book was delivered and in the condition stated. Delivered on time . Excellant service!!!!!
Second Maximum Ride 
2008-07-02
Second book in the Maximum Ride series.
The story picks up 24 hours after the end of the first book. Ari is dead (or is he?) and Max is not sure how to feel. As Max and the rest of the flock continue the search for their parents and their purpose, they run into one exciting situation after another, including a Max clone who thinks she can replace Max and betray the flock with no one the wiser. Lots of action and not a whole lot of character development, but Total (the dog) now talks and I love Max--I can't get enough of her snarky, sarcastic comments.
A Great Book!! 2008-06-19
I bought this book for my 15 year old son, His review:
Since I really enjoyed the first Maximum Ride book from James Patterson, anxious to start reading his second book of the Maximum Ride series. Couldn't put the book down, would start reading "School's Out" as soon as I came home from school and finished it in one day. A MUST READ!!!
Muahaha! Marketing in a cheesy, cliched bundle! 
2008-06-13
In this "wonderful" second installment, Patterson highlights the flaws of the first. It is a cheesy, condescending book that hardly is the exciting, different tale of a flying group of kids. First off, the characters are underdeveloped. Max - great leader, gonna save the world, oh boy!. Fang - hmm, apart from the name, all we know is that he seems pretty egotistical and is a dark!? love interest. Angel is obviously the product of Patterson trying to make the super-est of super characters. She controls minds, is smart, can talk to animals, and is basically perfect. The other characters are just supposedly smart and fun, but aren't really. The main villians (which keep changing, and not in a good way) are not scary. Ari, supposed sympathetic and strong, comes across crazed and weak. The fake Max (really, Patterson? an imposter?) is just silly. And the talking dog...need I say more?
But apart from the weak characterization, the obvious marketing put in is infuriating. Fang starts a blog, which is a real website that kids are encouraged to visit. Patterson even includes the url of this cash-cow.
Finally, the absurdity of the plot. It rushes along, not really going anywhere. Max finds her mom, who she almost immediately starts calling mom. Remember Nina and her mom? Well the nice doctor/vet was a scientist with an evil corporation in this book, though she is still nice. She is, of course, Max's real mom.
Patterson can write anything and it will be lapped up with rave reviews, but don't be tricked. This book is not exciting/thrilling, the characters are dull, the villains cheesy, ad the overall lesson to be learned is that when Patterson gets an idea, he puts it in the book, no matter its relevance.
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Awesome! 2008-06-08
I think this is the best book in the series. Nonstop action-adventure, good vs evil, even some romance is involved. We really get to know the characters well in this book. All I can say is that this is a high octane book that you will not be able to put down, no matter what your age.
I bought this series for my son 2008-05-31
"Adventure, fighting, backstabbing and love abound" (VOYA) in this action-packed follow-up to the #1 New York Times blockbuster MAXIMUM RIDE: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT, now available in paperback. The heart-stopping quest of six winged kids--led by fourteen-year-old Max--to find their parents and investigate the mind-blowing mystery of their ultimate destiny continues when they're taken under the wing of an FBI agent and attempt, for the first time, to live "normal" lives. But going to school and making friends doesn't stop them from being relentlessly hunted by sinister spies, who lead Max to face her most frightening match yet: a new and better version of herself.
What A ride 2008-05-25
Here in book 2 of the Maximum Ride series The wonderful Mr Patterson takes us all on the Max ride of a lifetime . The Angel kids has some rough times and narrow escapes from the "Erasers" , A bad Max is created and the original Max is captured , this being the first time Max is really seperated from her flock finds her uncomfortable and helpless to some extent trapped in a tank .... The angel kids finds themselves living and healing comfortable with Anne at some point until they find out who she really is . ....
This book has plenty of twists and turns including to small children trying to help capture the Angel kids . These kids pretending to be lost in the woods and all alone but they are actually .....
Read the book and get the ride / flight of your lifetime !
Hats off to Mr Patterson for a job well done again .
By Andrew P., a 7th Grader 2008-05-21
"Sweeping, swooping, soaring, air-current thrill rides - there's nothing better. For miles around, we were the only things in the infinite, wide-open, clear blue sky. You want an adrenaline rush? Try tucking your wings in, dive-bombing for about a mile straight down, then woosh! Wings out, grab an air current." Everyone's favorite flying hybrid kids are back! In the sequel to the #1 New York Times bestseller, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment, Maximum Ride: Schools Out - Forever, The flock is back and more adventurous than ever. The flock is traveling all over, D.C., New York and more! You might think that the sequel to a book like Max Ride would be kind of boring, WRONG! This book is just as action packed as the first one, it may even be better. The flock fights everything from businesses to clones.
Max keeps her leader role and, well, leads the flock through the many hard times the flock face. Patterson keeps his notorious reputation of good books with this one. This book is an all around great book for anyone above ten.
This book is not just for adults even though Patterson. It is geared more towards teens and teen issues, though you adults will love it too. This is a great book, happy reading!
Maximum Ride - School's Out Forever 2008-05-14
All four of the Maximum Ride books are fun reading. You can't put the book down and when you are getting to the end, you can't wait to read the next one.
Gee, the flock just doesn't have good luck with schools... 2008-04-22
- A stunned doctor (learning of Max's wings): "You're a human-avian hybrid."
- Max: "I prefer Avian American."
Warning: Some SPOILERS here.
These poor, poor kids! Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel - six genetically-engineered kids, ages ranging from six years old to fourteen - have not had an easy time since birth. Imprisoned in cages, mercilessly subjected to agonizing experiments, and grafted with avian DNA (ergo, the retractable wings), they finally broke out of the School some years ago. But the School has been implacable in hunting them down ever since, and, somehow, it has the ability to always locate them. And the School, more often than not, sends out the Erasers, its vicious werewolf-like enforcers, to do its dirty deeds. So far, Maximum Ride (or Max) has been able to take care of her flock and fight off the Erasers and confound the laboratory whitecoats. But the pressure is slowly starting to take its toll. For Max, there's that weird Voice in her head and that burden of having to save the world, although she doesn't yet know from what. Not to mention, she has to face up to the gravity of a horrible act she committed in the prior book. As this second volume to James Patterson's awesome Maximum Ride series opens up, nothing much has changed.
MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT - FOREVER begins roughly 24 hours after the events in MAXIMUM RIDE: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT. Having infiltrated and then escaped from the Institution (which is directly linked to the malevolent School), the kids are flying enroute to Washington, DC to look for Iggy's birth parents when they are attacked in mid-flight by a new breed of Erasers - this time, Erasers with their own wings. The furious battle leaves Fang gravely injured and forces Max to take him to a public hospital, where his wings can't help but be noticed by the doctors. Soon enough, the FBI comes a-knocking, and Max is left with no choice but to cooperate until Fang recovers. An FBI agent coaxes the flock into staying with her in her sprawling Virginian home, and she even enrolls them in a school. But, even as the flock begins to relax into their new lifestyle, the Erasers make their move...and Max finds out that her deadliest foe may be...herself.
Meanwhile, is it such a surprise that the flock's new school turns out to be pretty sinister? And that the flock's former trusted friend, Jeb Batchelder, persists in testing Max?
MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT - FOREVER improves on THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT. This one is just as fast-paced but even more riveting, and Patterson manages to pack in busloads of character development (for one thing, we learn more of the Eraser, Ari, and what goes thru his head; also, Total the dog completely rocks). And, while the answers are still long in coming, there are some notable reveals. For instance, Max gets a step closer to figuring out her destiny, specifically, the how-to-save-the-world part of it (she actually discovers the entity which she's supposed to go up against). Meanwhile, this series continues to hit you up with the humor, the funniest sequence being when the kids were separately interviewed by perplexed FBI agents. I also enjoyed the flock's time at the private school. I guess it's not too much of a shock that these particular kids would so frequently end up in the Principal's office, no matter how much Max has pleaded with them to blend in.
Because the story is narrated mostly thru Max's first person point-of-view, the reader sympathizes with her the most. Max, always protective of her charges and gutsy and bold and funny, is a wonderful heroine. She tells her story engagingly and with warmth and drops in a lot of humorous and poignant Max-isms. She becomes even more real when she gets quite jealous of the FBI agent's growing maternal relationships with her flock and later at last breaks down from having shouldered so much responsibility for so long. She's such an appealing character. But then so are the rest of the flock (and Total).
From Virginia to Florida (where, of course, the kids have to make a pit stop at Disney World), MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT - FOREVER takes you on an exhilarating flight. The conspiracy, it turns out, is very real and on a global scale. The stakes are extraordinary. The peril is ever present; the odds against the flock, massive. And then there's also homework. And first dates.
James Patterson crafts another rapid, engrossing read guaranteed to keep you up nights, and, if you're a young adult, maybe even keep you from your own homework and dates. If the first entry to the series THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT was intriguing, this one'll get you hooked but good. And, as if Max isn't a cool enough person, she also discovers a new super power. Which makes her even cooler.
Just don't ask her to cook.
The Maximum Ride series (so far):
- Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment (Teen's Top 10 (Awards))
- MAXIMUM RIDE: SCHOOL'S OUT - FOREVER
- Saving the World (Maximum Ride, Book 3)
- The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)
