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And this book is not written for the young teen I was back then.

Hawk lacks the magic that the early books held for me, but I think I was at exactly the right age when I encountered those. It left me with numerous questions about the world and timeline.

Overall, the book gave me what I expected. Fifteen years after an extinction-level event, the world’s population is evidently thriving, with (nightmarish) infrastructure and a booming population of criminals and drug addicts. We get the basic answers of “What happened to Hawk,” but other questions are left to the imagination. It's an odd sort of limbo - not quite a new series, but still disconnected from its predecessors. I expected Hawk’s friends to be a new Flock for another generation, but they ended up being more in the background. It's mostly just violence, "gotcha!" cliffhangers, and the occasional “oh, hey, here’s a character we know.” Max and the Flock do feature in the book. Discovered the first three books in a school library, fell in love with the superpowers and humor and adventure, then watched as the series shambled on and on. Now, I happen to be part of the generation that grew up with Maximum Ride. It was rolling along fine until the last section of the book. I work in a library and received an ARC of this book through Edelweiss. It just feels like really, REALLY dumbed-down YA sci fi that was churned out for money, which is also apparently why Hawk was also published. I'd love to see him actually finish the When the Wind Blows/Lake House story, the ending of the duology made it seem obvious there should have been another book, but he apparently abandoned that.įuck Maximum Ride. He seems like a okay guy overall, he's a big supporter of charity-related literacy (donating to universities, libraries, independent bookstores, etc etc) Good on him and I certainly don't wish him poor health or anything, but god fucking damn it, he really needs to slow down as far as his writing goes because the quality of it really suffers. The author really needs to retire, or at least take the time to develop his stories more. I expected it to be crappy, but I'm a rubbernecker and I wanted to know what the fuck this was because I thought the series was supposed to be over? I DNFed when I ran out of the sample that I downloaded from Amazon. I grabbed Maximum Ride #1 from the grocery store shelf years ago when it was newly released because it looked interesting, but the story was choppy and crappy, like so many of the author's other books. Patterson chose to not continue the When the Wind Blows story, that had much more depth. Patterson, can you just please fucking stop? I read the original When the Wind Blows duology, and that was much, much, MUCH better than the Maximum Ride series.