The flock members are getting WAY to many new powers. James Patterson has taken the whole 'special human' thing WAY too far. I mean, come ON! Where has the totally cool Max gone? And who is this new freak? She's turned into this weak, lovestruck, mopey, pathetic softie who falls for anything and does what anyone tells her to. Now there's no Max anymore, but a completely different person stuck in her body. She used to be such a great narrator- her voice had been great and strong, and she used to be tough, funny, sarcastic, cynical, and kick-butting. series- their personalities were so complex and awesome, and they were so fun to watch. The flock used to be the reason I loved the M.R.

The characters, I deeply regret to say, are dying. It's not only the plot that has totally flumped in this book. Now, what Max and the flock are fighting against are lacking-depth, two-dimensional, robotic, 'evil' freaks who go 'Mwa ha ha I'm going to kill you and take over the world! GRR!!' Ugh. Now that Ari is dead, the 'bad guys' are ceasing to be complex. There are no true, great villains anymore. NOT.Īs for the conflicts of the story- there are basically none left. Instead, the MCs are stuck in Antarctica - of all places - trying to help stop the climate change. There were no action-packed chase scenes, no thrilling fights that Maximum Ride used to always be full of. This book was boring, full of lecturing global warming yapper (all of which I already KNOW) and lacking any adventure. I declare the Maximum Ride series as now officially RUINED. James Patterson seems to have a talent for making every next book in this series worse than the one before. (The only good thing about THE FINAL WARNING? Total's 'I prefer canine-American' comment, which made me laugh until I cried.)Įew. No, what really ticks me off is that it seems as if he decided, with the current state of affairs, to change the whole point of the books at the very last minute, as a way to promote his cause. But if this had been his plan all along, you have to think that there would have been SOME advance warning. We knew it would be big, and no doubt unbelievable, as most of Mr. If you go back and read the series from the beginning, starting with THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT, we all knew that Max and the gang had a special mission, a mission that would save the world. The problem, as I see it, is there was NO WAY he started writing this series with a plan to make Max's 'saving the world mission' one that had anything to do with this topic. My problem with the story wasn't so much that James Patterson used it as a soapbox for global warming - after all, it's his book, and he can do what he wants.

Maximum ride the final warning