Maximum Ride: School's Out forever Review

Book: Maximum Ride: School's Out forever
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers
Reviewed by: Kate (Age 20)
Amazon.com Price: $6.99
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In Maximum Ride: School’s out forever, the follow up book to Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment, the story takes up where the last book finished off. Max and her ‘flock’ of bird-kid mutants are still on the run from the sinister scientists the created them. When Ari makes a surprise return with a group of flying Erasers Fang is badly hurt and the group have no choice but to take him to a hospital. There they are taken in by an FBI agent who places them in the last place they expected – High School! Can the kids embrace a normal life or is it bound to be a short lived dream?

While I found The Angel Experiment an enjoyable book I was never overly enthralled, however, with School’s out forever I was instantly having difficulty putting the book down. The character development is better in the sequel, Max’s voice seems stronger and the story is continuing to grow in complexity.

Ari isn’t dead, in fact he can now fly and he’s after Max with the same hatred (and love) as before. The relationship between Max and Fang is continuing to develop and when both teens start dating in High School jealousy comes to the surface.

School’s out forever is definitely a book worth checking out. I loved it.