MaximumRideMonthlyReview

Sigh. This is our last monthly review on our tenth grade year. So sad. To make this last monthly review special, I will put more personality into it or something else to make it special. I will try. As you can read from my blogger my regular literature circle letters introduced and guided you along some of the moments of this book. Now is the time for the final review for the last book.

5. Find out about the author. How did they end up writing this particular book? Is the author's true life reflected in the book in any way(s)?
To start this question off, I will introduce the author's background. According to Wikipedia, James Patterson retired his everyday job of advertising in 1996. He then devoted his time in writing novels and series like Maximum Ride and The Women's Murder Club. "He holds the New York Times bestsellers list record with 55 New York Times bestselling titles." was stated in Wikipedia's article. I will have to say that that is a good achievement in life. James Patterson is sixty-three old and yet he amazingly achieved that in a matter of time. "Alex Cross" is his main series, it was his most proud series and also his first. "Alex Cross" is known to be one of his greatest works on his writing year. I couldn't find anything about why he wrote this particular book, but I read about the movie in 2013 and why he would want it. "James Patterson has had an "online rally" which has led him to arrange to have a movie based on his best selling teen series; Maximum Ride. The movie will be based on the first three books, but it is unknown whether it will also be based on the recently published fourth installment and newly released fifth novel, MAX."

7. If you've read other books in this same genre, how does this one compare?
You could guess what book I'm going to compare it to, yes, you are correct it's none other than The Hunger Games and it's second book Catching Fire. Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment is an exciting story about kids and teenagers on an adventure to save one of the youngest of them all. Maximum Ride is a thrilling, suspenseful fantasy book while The Hunger Games is a science fiction, thrilling, and suspenseful fiction book. As you can see, these two books are really similar but one is more of the fantasy side and the other you can relate to. In The Hunger Games, Katniss the main character doesn't have wings and is a full whole human. In Maximum Ride, Max is ninety-eight percent human and two percent bird. Katniss is more like us and we can compare our relationship with her, but with Max that's kind of hard to compare with. Both books are about survival of the fittest. The genre may be the same but the plots and characters are completely different.
But in my opinion, I enjoy The Hunger Games more. Yeah I enjoy fantasy and angels and vampires more but the entire story plot about survival amongst full humans in more interesting. I guess it does matter who the person is and what type of books they like to read. So to sum everything up. The Hunger Games Series < Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment. But I shouldn't judge by reading Maximum Ride's first book, I should at least try the other books in the series before I make a judgment like that.

8. Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth. You can also analyze a relationship between two different characters.
For this question I chose to write about Fang, one of the males in this book. Fang is fourteen years old in Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment. He becomes older by one year in the next book, referring to Wikipedia. So he's six foot three. "He is 6' 3". He has olive skin, dark eyes and jet black hair that matches his jet black wings. His wing span is 14 feet across." Quote taken from Wikipedia. Describe by the book, Fang is the strongest member of the "flock" and he takes near fatal wounds from protecting his fellow members from danger. Some say that he has a small amount of Raven DNA in him, because of the black wings and also his size. Fang is a loner, in my opinion, he doesn't show his emotions and he is the quiet type, but one person can get through to him, Max. I wonder why. I wasn't suppose to spoil the entire series for myself but by reading Wikipedia's article about Fang, I spoiled the entire other books for myself. And now I'll spoil it for every else, this is a warning if you don't want a spoiler then keep scrolling until the end of this paragraph. Warning. Fang and Max get into many relationships with each other. And Angel proved their love and tastes to each other, and who couldn't trust Angel with her amazing reading minds power. Later on, Angel sees Fang future and she predicted his death, later on she was right Fang is the first "experiment" to die from the "flock." And here's a quote on what Fang enjoys and part of his personality "From School's Out Forever and so on, it is shown that Fang takes great pleasure in seeing Max getting jealous over him... Fang also gets easily jealous when seeing other guys hanging out with Max, shown in The Angel Experiment, School's Out Forever and Fang: A Maximum Ride Novel." Who would have known that quiet Fang was the jealous type?

Well that's the end of the third question, and also the end to our amazing journey of blog posting for book reviews. The final blog post I'll have to do for this class is the Final Post, which is also a Semester Final like the previous one a few months ago. Hope you enjoyed this book review.