MAXIMUM RIDE
BOOK REVIEW | Summer reading has gotten a lot better since the last time I was an eighth grader. This being the second year that I was supposed to read Maximum Ride by James Patterson so that I could lead a student discussion about it, I decided that it was actually time to read the book. As a librarian, you'd think that I would've read it the first time around.
I admit it: I didn't. But I led a really good discussion about it.
I am glad that I read it this summer. I was a little skeptical of the premise at first... genetically engineered kids with wings escape lab, get chased by genetically engineered kids that can turn into wolves, fighting ensues. Despite having a good taste for science fiction, this one seemed a little too weird for me.
Far from it, I find out. I picked it up on the book rack at a Stop 'n Shop on Long Island and finished it a couple of days later. The story and characters had a depth I wasn't expecting, and the situations and dialog were more real than I thought possible, given the whole wings and wolves thing. I found myself laughing out loud a few times at the situations the bird kids found themselves in and the way they handled themselves and the people around them. It was interesting to be inside Maximum's head and to hear her thoughts about life, her creators, and her "flock."
Turns out this "weird" premise was more real to life than a lot of the books I've read recently.
I admit it: I didn't. But I led a really good discussion about it.I am glad that I read it this summer. I was a little skeptical of the premise at first... genetically engineered kids with wings escape lab, get chased by genetically engineered kids that can turn into wolves, fighting ensues. Despite having a good taste for science fiction, this one seemed a little too weird for me.
Far from it, I find out. I picked it up on the book rack at a Stop 'n Shop on Long Island and finished it a couple of days later. The story and characters had a depth I wasn't expecting, and the situations and dialog were more real than I thought possible, given the whole wings and wolves thing. I found myself laughing out loud a few times at the situations the bird kids found themselves in and the way they handled themselves and the people around them. It was interesting to be inside Maximum's head and to hear her thoughts about life, her creators, and her "flock."
Turns out this "weird" premise was more real to life than a lot of the books I've read recently.
