Maximum Ride
James Patterson
p.163-p.440(end)
1hr.15 min.
rating: 7.5/10
This book continues with basically more of the same, and luckily "the same," is pretty good stuff. The book continues with the characters going to New York to investigate their origins while evading going back to the mutant "school" that engineered them.
There are more set-of-the pants adventure moments, but the book left too many questions unanswered for my taste. The book's ending feels out of place and somewhat rushed, although it does open the door for the sequel, which has already been released. Another thing that kind of ticked me off was, as it progressed towards the end, the book didn't get better. It started of great, and instead of picking it up from there and getting better, it kept a constant formula of chases and mystery, which isn't necessarily bad, but it is somewhat disappointing to read 400+ pages of a book and the story doesn't really go anywhere.
The book still keeps it's great characters, it's sense of mystery and adventure, and it's action-packed sequences( LOL, I wrote this, then looked at the back cover and it said " Adventure, mystery, and suspense in big lettering)but this is just barely enough to bring it to the end without it being boring. Hopefully the author will bring something new to the table in the sequel, which I will be reading. Overall, this book was, a pleasant surprise at first, and kept the same formula which was good, but not great.
James Patterson
p.163-p.440(end)
1hr.15 min.
rating: 7.5/10
This book continues with basically more of the same, and luckily "the same," is pretty good stuff. The book continues with the characters going to New York to investigate their origins while evading going back to the mutant "school" that engineered them.
There are more set-of-the pants adventure moments, but the book left too many questions unanswered for my taste. The book's ending feels out of place and somewhat rushed, although it does open the door for the sequel, which has already been released. Another thing that kind of ticked me off was, as it progressed towards the end, the book didn't get better. It started of great, and instead of picking it up from there and getting better, it kept a constant formula of chases and mystery, which isn't necessarily bad, but it is somewhat disappointing to read 400+ pages of a book and the story doesn't really go anywhere.
The book still keeps it's great characters, it's sense of mystery and adventure, and it's action-packed sequences( LOL, I wrote this, then looked at the back cover and it said " Adventure, mystery, and suspense in big lettering)but this is just barely enough to bring it to the end without it being boring. Hopefully the author will bring something new to the table in the sequel, which I will be reading. Overall, this book was, a pleasant surprise at first, and kept the same formula which was good, but not great.
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