World Famous Comics: The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)
The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4)
By: James Patterson Publisher: Little, Brown and Company Average Rating: Binding: Hardcover Label: Little, Brown and Company Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 272 Publication Date: March 17, 2008 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: March 17, 2008
Product Description: A breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson: a girl who can fly has to save herself from the scientists who want to control her--and maybe save the world in the process.
It Just Keeps Going On and On Max and the flock are back again in another wild adventure. Unknown enemies are still trying to kill and/or capture them to use the flying mutants to gain power, and other influential people want to control them. But lately things have been calmer. Max and the flock join up with a team of scientists in Antarctica studying the effects of global warming. But even from the remotest place on earth, Max and her flock are still targets - because whoever controls the flock controls the world.
I was hesitant to read the fourth book in the Maximum Ride series because of mixed reviews that I read and also because I had thought the story was over after the third book. For me, The Final Warning was pretty disappointing. The plot was just not as exciting as in the previous books and sadly, Max's snarkiness got a bit annoying. I also felt that the rest of the flock wasn't as important an element in this novel as in the previous ones. Everything was too centered on "saving the world" and global warming, which although it is a good cause, it didn't make for a fantastic story. I really thought the series should've ended with Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports, the third book, because by the fourth, everything just started to get too repetitive.
Dedicated fans of James Patterson and the Maximum Ride series may want to check out this fourth installment, but I would not recommend it. I think if you stick with the first three, you're all good.
A let down....... Well I have read all of the other books in the series and absolutely loved them and I couldn't wait to get this one but it was a let down. It wasn't nearly as good as the other books and I really was wishing that something would happen to make it more interesting. I read it in about an hour because to tell you the truth it was kind of boring. I think he should write another book after this one and then end the series with a book five. I mean I want to know what happened at the end when they said they have another mission to go on. It kinda leaves you hanging a little bit. ~ IM DISAPPOINTED.....
Disappointing Fourth book in the Maximum Ride series.
This book seemed disconnected from the rest of the series.
Max and the flock are back and settled with Ella and her mom. They join an expedition to the arctic where a group of scientists are studying global warming. The focus on global warming could have been both interesting and thought-provoking. However, the theme was overbearing and I felt like I was reading a textbook. Obviously, the issue of global warming is a serious one, but I didn't appreciate getting beaten over the head with it when I was reading a fluffy action book!
Flock's back... buuuut It was ok. Just ok. I loved the Maximum Ride series just until the whole Global Warming was introduced. I get it, global warming is bad bad bad. And yes I understand that we can do something about it. But it's been hammered into our heads waaay too much! Please Mr. Patterson! Better next time pleeeease?? Love ya! ~Marie
The Maximum Ride books are going downhill fast This is truly the worst book I have ever read. I read the first 3 books and loved them. This one however was terrible. It has the saddest beginning of all the books (A funeral). And now one of the main villians is dead (though he wasn't the main villian when he died, it makes more sense if you've read the previous books), and the other main villians are pretty much defeated, the books have really lost their purpose. It's all about global warming now. It's all global warming's fault, blah, blah, blah. I DO care about global warming, it's just that, when you have a good series going, don't try and ruin it by adding in all this "Global warming is bad" stuff. Oh, and the book is REALLY REALLY boring. I only got to page 101 before I just quit reading it. If you liked the first three books, don't bother with this one. Just assume that now everything is happy because Max already saved the world in the third book (I honestly have no clue why James Patterson bothered writing a fourth if the problem was already solved in the third book).
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