Fight or Flight by Serena

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	• Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment (Teen's Top 10 (Awards)) James Patterson, 2005 - 432 pages average customer review:based on 243 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An Exceptional Book

I found Maximum Ride a lovely book with the perfect amount of darkness to it. I mean, really, who wants to read a story where everything's always hunky-dory and nothing ever goes wrong? That's what I thought.

Anyway, Max, a fourteen year old self-proclaimed bird-girl (or Avian-American. Kind of an inside joke for people who've read Max Ride School's Out - Forever), and her winged, 2% bird Flock (all of whom are under fifteen yearsof age): Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman (Gazzy) and Angel are on the run from other mutants who want to capture them and bring them back to The School (The lab they were raised in, the School is located above the Badwater Basin in Death Valley). Max and her Flock have vowed never to go back to the School, but have no choice but to return when the youngest member of the Flock, six-year-old Angel, is kiddnapped by Erasers, half-wolf half-human mutants, who work as police, guards and exicutioners for the School, according to Maximum Ride herself.

Jeb Batchelder is father to Ari, the leader of the Erasers (Max didn't know Ari had been 'Eraserfied' yet until he took Angel and she saw him morphed), and used to be a friend and father-like figure to Max, but then he 'died', two years before Max and her Flock returned to the School. Something happened to Jeb, but he's not actually dead. You really want to know? You really have to read the Angel Experiment, then. :)

Max and Fang are close friends, and co-leaders, and they have many nightly talks about what to do with the Flock, and where to go next, and sometimes, just about anything. Max can find comfort in the black eyes of her right-hand man (Fang), even though she doesn't say it in so many words. One thing about them, is you're never quite sure about their relationship. Sometimes you might think they love each other, but then you turn around and they're fighting, or dating someone else, et cetera.

Max has other problems, too, besides finding Angel, saving the world (I forgot to mention that, huh?), and keeping her Flock alive and well. She also has a criptic Voice inside her head that gives her worse-than-a-migrane headaches. Max can't tell if the Voice is either male of female, friend or foe (albeit it says it is her friend) and it almost never shows emotion. As you might imagine, it gets annoying at times.

This book takes you into the action from the first chapter, and keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire read. I know. I started Maximum Ride, the Angel Experiment at midnight (I am a huge night-owl) and finished it four hours later.

Now, nearly five months later, I have read and repeatedly re-read MR one and two, written some fan-fiction on it, gotten two albums from two bands [...]
(I'm sorry for the length of my review, but it is very hard for me to write a short review about my favorite book.)

And needless to say, I give Maximum Ride (The Angel Experiment, and School's out - Forever) five stars.

Cheers to James Patterson and his first teen novel!

-DarkHawk09

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Fight or Flight by Serena

This is an amazing book about a fourteen-year-old girl who has to live with having wings in the real wold. Her name is Maximum Ride (Max) and she has to take care of five other kids like her. Their names are Fang and Iggy, both boys and are both also fourteen, Gasman (Gazzy) who's eight, Nudge who's ten, and Angel who's six. Max treats them like she would her own kids and asks like they are too.

All of them were created into human-avian hybrids (kid-bird freaks or just mutant freaks) by people who they call the whitecoats, or sceintists, in a lab that Max and her flock of kids call the School. When Angel gets kidnapped by Erasers (human-lupine hybrids or human people who can morph into wolves), Max leaves Iggy and Gazzy behind because Iggy is blind and she thinks Gazzy,even though he is Angel's real sister, is to small. on their trip back to California, Max helps a girl who is being bullied by guys and ends up getting shot. The girl who she helped lets her stay with her and her mother, who is a doctor. As soon as she can fly again, Max leaves them behind and goes in search for Fang and Nudge. They free Angel, after running into Iggy and Gazzy who say that there are to many Erasers up at there home to stay.

They end up on the run, while looking for the Institute, a building that has information about the flock and their parents, in New York. On their journey Max finds out that she has a voice in her head that isn't her own and it causes really bad headaches, so bad Fang has to carry her while they fly sometimes. They find the Institute and right after they get their info from it, they are discovered by Ari, an Eraser, and some of his gang. The flock run into a secret room, only to find more muntant freaks. They release all of them and make them run away. Max brings up the rear of the group and as they are about to escape the place, Max finds herself fighting with Ari. During the fight, Max brakes Ari's neck, killing him. As she is flying away, Max hears Jeb Batchelder (the man who saved her and the flock from the School, disappeared a couple of years later, discoved by Angel that he betray the flock and was working for the whitecoats, and he was Ari's father)scream after her, "You killed your own brother!" As she reaches her flock again she finds that all of the other mutant freaks were gone except for a dog that Angel wanted to keep.

This is a wonderfull book that leads into many surpises and fights that could kill the flock. I highly recomend this to anyone who loves adventure, fantsy, and mysteries all in the same book.

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A fun and scary ride!

I enjoyed this book so much. James Patterson tells another great story.
I recommend this trilogy about Max and her flock.

Maximum Ride

an Fantastic story join the flock Max the (leader) Fang, Iggy, Gsaman, (gazzy) Angle, Nudge. As they run from the school a evil lab that put Bird DNA in to them and cunducts experments on them. They escapied and are wanted alive or deadwouldnt bug the scientist now they are beging chased by easers half wolf killing meacieans so join them in their fights and filghts to survive.from the veary first page you will be kept on the edge of your seat

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