ABOUT THE AUTHOR James Patterson is a number one international bestselling thriller writer. Since starting his career back in 1976, Patterson has wowed audiences with clever thriller fiction, chilling readers to the core, and being known for his outstanding suspense and twist writing. ABOUT THE SERIES 2005, brought his first teen fiction novel, 'Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment'. The book spawned a series, focusing on the lives of Max and her flock of human-bird kids, known to readers as the flock. They returned in 2008 with their fourth adventure; 'Maximum Ride: The Final Warning'. A fifth book was released in 2009, with a six ...  Read the complete review

The Maximum Ride books used to be one of my favourite series. They tell the story of a group of genetically-modified kids with wings and other "powers". Contray to popular belief, they are NOT sequels to James Patterson's other books, When the Wing Blows and The Lake House, but that is where he got the idea for the Maximum Ride series, which is for children. The Maximum Ride trilogy finished with a few loose ends, and so I assumed this book, in which Max and the "flock" travel to Antarctica to try to prevent Global Warming, was going to tie up the series nicely. It doesn't. I used to be a great fan of the books when I was younger, but ...  Read the complete review

James Patterson is perhaps more famous for his character Alex Cross than for any other character, but the author has also produced a fine series of books targeting a younger adult audience with the Maximum Ride books, featuring a group of six kids who can fly as the result of a government experiment. When the Wind Blows and Tha Lake House set the scene before Patterson started with the more toned down books in the series, all featuring one fo the six experimental kids as the title role of Max. in this installment of the series, which is the latest to date, Max and the other 5 kids end up working with the a group of environmental scientists to help ...  Read the complete review