Angel by James PattersonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Book Review 6- Angel Maximum Ride
by: James Patterson
INTRODUCING...
Maximum Ride: Angel by James Patterson. It was published in February 2011. It’s fiction. So far this book doesn’t have any awards yet, but it’s predicted to win the best-selling award. It has 291 pages inside. It took me 2 days to read. Maximum Ride is the main character while Iggy, Gasman, Nudge, and Angel are the supporting characters. This book takes place in France in the present day.
The Story
The story takes place in France in present day. The protagonist is Maximum Ride. The main character had to actually make a lot of choices particularly in this book. She had to make the choice of either choosing Fang as the love of her life or the new member Dylan as the love of her life. She is still confused on who she should choose at the end of the book. Another choice she had to make was whether to have her sister and her brother disarm a bomb by themselves, or to have their whole flock escape while the city of France blows up. The major conflict in this book was whether Max could stop the Doomsday Group alongside her ex and his flock. The antagonist in this book is this “Doomsday Group” that plans to wipe out the human race and instead have the new generation of genetically mutated children take over the world. The other characters in the story are Fang and his new flock of genetically mutated teens.
Analysis
One theme I found in this book was about moving on. After Fang leaves the flock, Max is heartbroken. However in the book, Max learns to just move on with her life and stop moping around. Another theme I found was trust. After Max’s mom suddenly disappears out of nowhere, she is convinced that her mom is secretly in alliance with the Doomsday Group (Patterson 148). After Max comes to this conclusion, she learns to never again trust another adult. Before, she couldn’t trust anybody but her mom. She doesn’t even fully trust in some of the members of her flock. She makes a pact to never trust an adult ever again (Patterson 148). I believe in this book the message that James Patterson wanted to get across was to just keep moving on with your life. You shouldn’t stop yourself from living or stop yourself from enjoying life. The characters conveyed the message perfectly by showing how the two flocks differ from each other. They always argue and fight about things. But they learn to just move onto a bigger picture than just to get along. They fight for a greater cause which is saving the world. I did have a disagreement with the decision that Fang made. Fang decides to choose a clone of Max as his partner in crime. If I were him, I would have just stayed with Max and his original flock. The characters’ actions help better the understanding of the message because they are two very different groups of individuals. They have different personalities, powers, and attitudes. So, you wouldn’t think that moving along was possible for them. But in the end, they somehow do get along.
Recommendation
Reading this book will not just feed your hunger for action and romance, but it also leaves you with an open-mind on society in the real world. The book doesn’t actually seem too far-fetched. It could sometime happen in the future. Even today we’re already starting to mutate sheep and horses. How long before they mutate humans? I want the reader to read this book because it will start something in them. I know it did for me. It jolts you like Gatorade because it starts curiosity in you, it gets your brain visualizing, and it’s just so engaging. I would definitely recommend this book to others.
Conclusion
All in all, I loved this book to pieces. I’m glad I waited for this book to come out. I wished that it was longer too. I found this book to be just perfect. It wasn’t worse than the book before lik soe of the books I’ve read in other series. It just keeps gettin’ better and better. James Patterson will definitely be my all-time favorite author because of this series.
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