The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4) | James Patterson

The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4) | James Patterson | Major Letdown

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	The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4) James Patterson Little, Brown and Company, 2008 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 112 reviews view larger image
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Lecturing

As an adult over 70 I have enjoyed this series. I was looking forward to another exciting story in the lives of these wonderful children. What I did not expect was a lecture from the viewpoint of the author. The whole book and story was ruined by this tirade from the author. Next time just give us a story. If the whole meaning of this series was just to get his enviromental viewpoint across he did his readers a great injustice.

Major Letdown

Ok, so I went to the library, like I do every couple of weeks or so, when I spotted James Patterson's FINAL WARNING. I loved the first three books, and was dying to read this one. I had almost bought the book earlier when it first came out, but had decided against it in hopes that maybe in a few months it would still be on the shelves and i could get it then. Boy, am I glad I didn't buy it.
The beginning of the book was promising, and I kicked back and relaxed, excited and content to be reading another great Maximum Ride novel that I was absolutely sure would fill me up and leave me waiting for the next one, or at least give me a promising and glorious conclusion.
What I got was about half a book with Patterson lecturing us wittle readers about Global Warming, which is vewy vewy bad! Seriously, though, I felt as if he had written the whole action packed, awesome series to end it with a lecture about how us humans are destroying the earth, blah, blah blah.
Don't get me wrong, we should take care of the earth and recycle about all that good stuff, but if Patterson wanted to get that out there, he could have just written it somewhere else. Spoiling the whole book, which had the potential to be a very good installment of the Maximum Ride series, with that much ranting about Global Warming was not a good idea. I was hoping throughout the rest of the book from the point where the Flock is in Antartica to the end that Max would remain by her own ideas, instead of going along with the "OHMIGAWSH, Global Warming is gonna KILL US!" theme.
Anyways, I am desperately hoping that after all these reviews, James Patterson will realize that Maximum Ride is not the place to sell his ideas on Global Warming and will bring back the old Maximum Ride ideas with a fifth book.

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Characters as sharp and sassy as ever, but book is a letdown

As usual the characters are still sharp and sassy, with excellent retort. But the book is too preachy of a message on Global Warming, and I'm someone who believes we do need to pay attention and behind on this issue and energy independence. The author IMHO mailed it in on this one. Fans of the series deserved better. Thank goodness I didn't pay full price for the audio book of this one.

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