I enjoyed the series quite a bit until this entry. The author basically abducted this series to write about global warming awareness. It's so blatant it hurts. Are you telling me that all this time Max was supposed to save the world by talking about global warming before the audience, Greta Thunberg style? Yeah, right... And that was just the cherry on top of this disaster.

It's nice to be passionate about the good of the world, but changing the story of the series to fit the agenda is just going to leave the fans mad. You could have always written a new story or made this an optional side story novella...

I am not continuing with the series as from sequels reviews I learned there are some more questionable things happening further on. I will rather keep the good memory of the first three books and pretend that the story ended there. ( )

My review for the first book of this series still stands. I suppose I only kept reading after that point out of pure bile fascination, or out of some futile hope that the books would get better and that the plot might in fact go somewhere. I really wanted these books to be good. The original premise sounded good. Winged kids who fight evil overarching entities? Come on, that's cool. Or at least it would be if that was actually what went on, instead of what does happen in this series, which is close to nothing.

This book was where the series well and truly jumped the shark, and where I finally stopped reading. It dropped what plot it had left, turned all its characters into Sues (though they were already heading in that direction anyway), and turned into a thinly disguised tract against global warming. I agree with the author on this issue. That doesn't mean I want to be lectured to death on it. If I wanted that, I'd read blog posts on the issue. I DO read blog posts on the issue. In a work of fiction, I expect any such views to be handled with a little more grace and artistry, because literature is supposed to be an art form. If you make it nothing more than your own soapbox, people will not read it, they will not enjoy it, and ultimately it will succumb to the next hot-button issue. The Grapes of Wrath and A Christmas Carol give social commentary. But people have read them, and still read them, because they're good literature, and not propaganda. Learn the difference, James Patterson. ( )

Global warming propaganda! Though, if you think about it, a sci/fi book isn't really the place for it- if there are no real flying kids, why should global warming be real ( )

In general I do not enjoy James Patterson novels as I find them predictable and formulaic but for some reason I quite enjoy the Maximum Ride series. I found the characters to be interesting and I found the story to be fascinating. I liked how it was fantastical but also believable enough that it felt like the vents could maybe actually happen. The writing style is very readable if a bit simplistic. ( )

In the series this is surely the book I liked the least. The story wasn’t particularly captivating and I was quite disappointed by the way the Max/Fang relationship was handled, most of all considering what happened in the end of the 3rd book. ( )