School's Out - Forever (Maximum Ride, Book 2) | James Patterson

School's Out - Forever (Maximum Ride, Book 2) | James Patterson | Maximum Ride- Schools Out Forever

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	School's Out - Forever (Maximum Ride, Book 2) James Patterson Vision, 2007 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 117 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Maximum Ride

The book Maximum Ride School's Out Forever was a very exciting read. The book starts off right where the first book left off. Max, Iggy, Fang, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel are on a quest to find their parents. About a quarter of the way through the book, Iggy finds his family. He soon finds out that they only want him for the publicity that he carries with him. That is because all six kids are human-avian hybrids. This means that they are half bird, half human. I won't give anything else away, but that the book grabs ahold of you and won't let you go. I recommend that when you finish reading this review that you go and get a copy of this book. Enjoy!

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Maximum Ride- Schools Out Forever

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to fly? Do you like adventure books? If you do then, read Maximum Ride - Schools Out Forever by James Patterson. This book takes you inside Maximum Ride and her flock of six and a dog's life! This book is the second in a series of three. The first is Maximum Ride - Angles Experiment and the third one is Maximum Ride - Back to Saving the World. This series is science fiction.

The six kids Max, Fang, Nudge, Iggy (who is blind), Angel, Gassman and the dog Total were all experimented on in a lab in the first book and given wings except Total who can talk. Somehow they escaped from the lab when they were not supposed to. The erasers, who worked at the lab are chasing the kids and trying to kill or capture them. When ever they get into fights the kids always win because they are stronger and better flyers. In one of the fights, Fang gets hurt and has to go to the hospital. There they meet FBI agent and lived with one named Ann for two months. Then all the erasers came to Ann's house and attacked them, and forced them to leave her house. The voice inside Max's head talks to her throughout the whole book reminding her that her destiny is to save the world. At the end of the book she takes it to heart and flew off with the flock to do it! Overall, I loved the book and would recommend it to anybody, especially people who like action and adventure!

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Better than the first

The second installment in the Maximum Ride series allows for the characters to grow in a way that wasn't possible in the first. While other reviewers are dissapointed in the lack of beginning-middle-end type of storytelling, it was nice to see these kids get a chance to truly be kids for a while, even if it means they go to school and have Thanksgiving dinner with a shady FBI agent. While this hold over in Virginia doesn't make for the most exciting read, it gives these hard running, hard fighting kids a chance to regain their bearings and focus on the hunt for their birth parents. This was a fast fun read.

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i've reread this book, IT'S GREAT!!!

In the second book of the Maximum Ride trilogy the kids find themselves going to school for the first time. I think that this book was a little bizzare but good. I think that the author took the erasers to a whole new level of creepy! Max and her gang are all in school and being taken care of by a woman that they met at the hospital. Max and her gang find out that each one of themselves have a new type of power than before. I think that this book is very revealing about Max nd her gang.

Fun, Quick Read

James Patterson's second novel in the Angel series, Maximum Ride: School's Out Forever, is much better than the first one. Patterson is definitely going with a series here, and you can tell. The background to this series is that kids have had different DNA spliced onto normal human DNA, and in the case of the main characters, theirs is avian. These kids have wings and fly. In addition to that, they also discover that they each may have additional "powers," such as telepathy, acute sight, and other heightened senses.

In this novel , the characters are better drawn. I felt that this was due to the fact that Patterson allows the main characters to finally have some downtime, when they are not being chased/hunted by the Erasers (a human/lupine combination that are the warriors/hunters - the bad guys). Max and the rest of her flock actually attend a real school where they interact with normal kids. This time off allows the reader, and Max and Company, to catch our breath. Throughout the first novel, they were constantly running. They do a lot of running and hiding in this novel, but the break is well deserved. For all of us.

That said, you still don't know what this is all leading up to. Max still has a Voice in her head, guiding her, teaching her, talking to her. But who is the Voice? Where does it come from? Another point that was driving me crazy - how do the Erasers know exactly where they are, where they are heading? Do the kids have tracking devices planted in them? Are there spies everywhere? Also, for what purpose were they created? What is going on with these 'visions' that Max keeps having? And Jeb, the Father Figure, what is his role in all of this? Not one of these questions have yet to be answered, and we are on the second novel.

I really hope that Patterson sees fit to answer some of these annoying questions in the next novel. Perhaps he will take some time to read some other authors' serial novels to discover that each can stand on their own. I think that isn't too much to ask - give us some purpose as to reasons why there is an Angel Experiment. As you may guess, I was disappointed by this novel. The title includes "School's Out Forever," which I thought meant that there would be some answers. Not this time.

Even with these issues, it was an enjoyable, fast read. Patterson puts the main characters in some normal circumstances/surroundings; we get to see them interact with other kids their own ages, they date, and the kids get to go to Disney for a day. :-)

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