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The Final Warning (Maximum Ride, Book 4) | 
 enlarge | Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $20.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  69 reviews
Sales Rank: 237
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0316002860
EAN: 9780316002868
ASIN: 0316002860
Publication Date: March 17, 2008
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Product Description
A breathtaking new story from the astonishing imagination of James Patterson: a girl who can fly has to save herself from the scientists who want to control her--and maybe save the world in the process.
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 Where did they plot go? May 10, 2008
So I love the series and that is why this book didn't get one star but two. If you haven't read the series go ahead and read all of them and just skip this one. This book was more about global warming (yes, we need to care for the earth) than the story that so many readers have been wanting to continue. We were wanting to read about Max and the flock, not about anything else. Why sacrifice a fun and exciting story to just totally trash it for the "green" marketing craze? I'll do my part in helping to keep this planet clean, James do you part in sticking with a good story instead. Dumping the real issue of global warming in a fantasy/fiction book hardly makes for a good and engaging read.
 A horrible addition to the series. May 7, 2008
I have read most of James Patterson's work, most of them are great, but this one was horrible. I don't know about you, but I read for entertainment, not so another treehugger can whine about Global Warming. I understand it is an issue in the world, but don't stuff it in our entertainment. The story, at some points, got like a text book lesson. Other parts, they were getting new abilities left and right. There was only one good scene in the book, a escape at the end. But even that was tied to Global Warming. In conclusion, it's a treehugger book. It's just a author who shoved a global warming lesson in our face.
Final Warning not up to snuff May 4, 2008
Was probably too excited to read this, the 4th edition, of Maximum Ride. The entire story-line was very much out of the ordinary for Max and Co. No big fights for the kids, just more running scared, unknowns trying to kill them, and the ever constant 'Voice' telling Max to do one thing, her listening, and it being he wring thing to do. The series is too much of a hit for JP to stop writing about the bird-kids, but I sure hope the next one is better than this anti-climactic rendition.
Waste of time May 1, 2008
I enjoyed reading the first three Max series but this one was a disaster. Lets face it, Patterson is not Chricton and should leave the mixing of Fiction with No-fiction to the experts who spend years on a subject before publishing. Don't get me wrong, I like Patterson novels but he is an assembly line novelist. He probably wrote this book over a weekend. Mr. Patterson please stick to what you are good at and leave the teaching to other writers.
Very Dissapointing May 1, 2008
I loved the previous Maximum Ride books... but this one was perhaps the worst. It was filled to the brim with redundancy, unrealistic "Mary-Sue" like powers, and a meandering plot with little conflict to drive it forward. I never felt concerned for Max, because I always knew that she would come out ok despite her own lack of self-confidence towards her chances of survival. Furthermore, Max COMPLETELY changed her goals from one thing to another... since when did she decide to abandon the fight against Itex and all that she had faced in her life just to stop global warming (as important as the concept may be to society and humankind today). The theme failed to be subtle, but was rather screamed in reader's ears, and couldn't have been more obvious if Patterson had scrawled KEEP EARTH CLEAN in big letters on the front page.
If you don't mind this sort of thing and loved the last books enough to stick with it, go ahead and buy the book... I have had some friends who still enjoyed it and thought it was funny in places. As for me, I think this is one book that I'll probably be giving away in a garage sale soon...
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