The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel Mass Market Author: Visit Amazon's James Patterson Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0446194050 | Format: EPUB
The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel Mass Market Description
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"Adrenaline galore...action-packed chapters end breathlessly, with twists at every turn."—
Kirkus Reviews"A never-ending series of twists and action."—
Virginian Pilot"The Maximum Ride series is top-flight."—
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Join six extraordinary kids for their coolest ride yet . . .
In one of the world's most extreme environment - he freezing South Pole - Max and the flock are in serious trouble. The grotesque Uber-Director has put a price on their heads, and a worldwide auction for the genetically modified kids is about to begin. His mutant army is heading down south to track down the winged gang, and with no built-in function for mercy, the soldiers aren't about to take pity on anyone.
Oblivious to the Uber-Director's evil plans, the flock is on a special government mission to save the Earth. But in a brutal environment like the South Pole, being able to fly isn't always an option for escapingf rom your worst nightmares . . .
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- Age Range: 11 and up
- Grade Level: 6 and up
- Series: Maximum Ride (Book 4)
- Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition (February 1, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 9780446194051
- ISBN-13: 978-0446194051
- ASIN: 0446194050
- Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
I've read all of James Patterson's other Maximum Rides books and I loved them, they are clearly meant for teenagers without the effort you see other acclaimed writers make to make something appeal to children. Throughout those other novels, I had never really noticed that it had subtle things he thought would appeal to children, the children against the adults concept and so on...
So I really loved his past books and faithfully 'clicked' for the new Maximum Ride book over and over. Now that it's out I find it condescending and he seems to think that teenagers have no intelligence. James Patterson tries to blatantly sell the concept of global warming to his readers, which I understand at 14 I'm rather more well-versed in politics and important issues than other readers, but his writing about it made it seem like he was writing to a little five year old. Much of the book was him blatantly expressing the effects of global warming, and very little of the nail-biting action I've come to expect of this series.
I have absolutely no issue with authors trying to express their opinions through their books, however, when it's done as blatantly and boringly as this is it seems as if it's like an insult to my intelligence. Am I not supposed to notice that this book is basically him trying to sell the concept of global warming to the more impressionable readers? It wouldn't have been bad if he had bothered to be subtle, sort of like the Golden Compass by Philip Pullman (still getting off his controversial ideas to the younger set, yet leaving the chance for ignorance of the underlying themes there), but instead he chose to spend half the (small) book lecturing the reader on Global Warming by Max's sarcastic (for the most part) narration of it.
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