IN THE BEGINNING,
THERE WAS MAXIMUM RIDE . . .
A GIRL. A FIGHTER. A LEADER.
A SUPERHUMAN WITH A MISSION TO SAVE THE WORLD.
SHE'S GONE TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
SEEKING HER DESTINY.
AND NOW, THE END ISN'T NEAR . . .
IT'S HERE.
Maximum Ride: Nevermore
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The final novel in the bestselling Maximum Ride series
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ONE LAST CHANCE . . .
FOR MAX, FANG, AND DYLAN . . .
BEFORE IT ALL ENDS.
Are you ready for the final chapter?
Are you ready for the ultimate flight?
Because THIS IS IT.
One last incredible, explosive adventure
with an astonishing ending that
no one could have seen coming.
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If you read the first 7 novels, you`ll probably buy this one as well. Just to see how it all ends. But please try to not get your hopes up too much...
Although I mostly enjoyed this book, it still leaves a bad feeling. We finally get the answer whether its going to be Fang or Dylan, who is behind the "voice" and it`s pretty well written.
However there are still A LOT of open questions (some of them raised in this last book, but I don't want to spoil anything), and the end is disappointing to say the least. In my opinion it passes for an average teenie love story, but somehow Patterson missed out on "saving the world".
Although I mostly enjoyed this book, it still leaves a bad feeling. We finally get the answer whether its going to be Fang or Dylan, who is behind the "voice" and it`s pretty well written.
However there are still A LOT of open questions (some of them raised in this last book, but I don't want to spoil anything), and the end is disappointing to say the least. In my opinion it passes for an average teenie love story, but somehow Patterson missed out on "saving the world".
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Das ist es also - das Ende von Maximum Ride. Ganz ehrlich: Es stimmt mich nicht wehmütig. Im Gegensatz zu Reihen wie Harry Potter oder Percy Jackson bin ich nicht im Geringsten traurig, dass es vorbei ist. Wäre ich nicht so verflucht neugierig, hätte ich Max längst den Laufpass gegeben. So genial das erste Buch war, so enttäuschend war alles danach. Der Stoff war höchstens für die ursprüngliche Trilogie ausreichend, danach hat Patterson einfach nur eine geldbringende Cashcow gemolken.
Gibt es überhaupt etwas Positives zu "Nevermore" zu sagen? Durchaus und das ist auch der Grund für die drei Sterne:
Nach dieser unsäglichen Katastrophe namens "Angel" ist "Nevermore" schriftstellerisch gesehen eine positive Überraschung. Es gibt zwar ein paar Tiefpunkte (ich denke mit Schaudern an Dylan der Max "Sugar Drops" nennt), aber immerhin bin ich dieses mal überzeugt davon, dass Patterson dieses Buch tatsächlich selbst geschrieben hat. Bei "Angel" hatte ich da noch das Gefühl, es könne sich nur um Fanfiction einer Fünfzehnjährigen handeln.
Auch inhaltlich scheint Patterson einige Fehler aus den Vorgängerbüchern wieder gut machen zu wollen. So wird Fangs Gang relativ schnell aufgelöst und es gibt ein Wiedersehen mit altbekannten Gegnern, die Patterson besser nie hätte verschwinden lassen sollen. Immerhin. Und auch die Charaktere ähneln eher wieder ihrem früheren Selbst als sie es in "Angel" getan haben. So ist Max nicht mehr depressiv, Fang kein halbstarkes A... mehr und der Rest des Flocks ist aus ihrem Trauergestaltendasein erwacht.
Um es mal zusammenzufassen. Das Buch ist durchaus lesbar. Und zwar selbst dann, wenn man der Zielgruppe inzwischen entwachsen ist.
Aber?
Der "Elephant in the Room" bei Nevermore ist ganz klar die Handlung.
Das Buch beginnt einige Zeit nachdem Showdown in Paris. Max und die übrig gebliebenen Mitglieder des Flocks drücken die Schulbank. Häh? War da nicht was vonwegen "Doomsday Group" die alle Menschen töten wollte, um die Welt zu retten? Ja, deren Anführer wurde im letzten Buch ausgeschaltet, aber bei einer weltweiten Gruppierung hätte ich gedacht, dass doch noch ein paar Wahnsinnige übrig geblieben sind, die man aufhalten sollte. Aber nein. Ich Dummerchen hab vermutlich die Lebensdauer von solchen über soziale Netzwerken organisierten Gruppierungen überschätzt. Facebook ist halt auch nicht mehr das, was es mal war.
Erst im Verlauf des Buches wird klar, dass es scheinbar eine Nachfolgegruppe gibt. Der originelle Titel? Die 99 Percenters. Steht für die 99% der Menschen die sterben sollen, damit die Welt doch noch gerettet werden kann. Aha. Anstatt Kinder mit "Kill the Humans"-Plakaten auf Demos rennen zu lassen, wie die Vorgänger das getan haben, geben führende Wissenschaftler Interviews und halten "rationale Vorträge" über ihr Vorhaben. Und niemand sieht ein Problem damit. Kein Geheimdienst, kein Militär, kein Präsident sieht einen Grund das Ganze aufzuhalten. Und Max? Die ist zu beschäftigt ihre aufkeimenden Gefühle für Dylan mit ihren Schuldgefühlen gegenüber ihrem Exfreund zu vereinbaren. So ein Liebesdreieck ist aber auch wichtiger als das Ende der Welt - das muss man schon verstehen. Und als besagter Exfreund dann auch noch wegen seiner einzigartigen DNA gejagt wird, und Max eine Spur der totgeglaubten Angel findet ist sie endgültig ausgebucht.
Die Wendungen, die folgen wirken häufig willkürlich, der Plot lieblos, so als wäre es dem Autor egal gewesen, wie seine Geschichte endet. Leute die tot waren, tauchen plötzlich wieder auf, Leute die mal "gut" waren, gehören plötzlich zu den Bösen und umgekehrt. Die Identität der "Voice" wird entdeckt und ich bezweifle stark, dass Patterson von Anfang an wusste, dass es diese Person sein würde. Wie gesagt, das ganze erscheint unheimlich willkürlich.
Und das Ende ist erschreckend. Vor allem weil es unheimlich nüchtern erzählt wird. Wer es nicht wissen will, sollte hier aufhören zu lesen. Und dringend, ganz dringend den Prolog des Buches überspringen.
Also: ACHTUNG SPOILER!!!
Unglaublich aber wahr - nach dem ganzen Trara von wegen Max sollte die Welt retten, stellt sich heraus, dass sie das nicht kann. Wissenschaftler haben bereits vor vielen Jahren damit begonnen, ein absolut tödliches, hoch ansteckendes Supervirus zu erzeugen, gegen das nur Mutanten immun sind. Und Max erfährt das erst als es bereits frei gesetzt wurde. Auf eine paradisische Insel geflüchtet bleibt ihr nur das Warten darauf das die "gewöhnlichen" Menschen ihr Ende finden und sie und ihre Mutantenfreunde die Welt dann übernehmen können. Das heißt, sofern sie die Explosion eines Meteoriten welcher tektonische Katastrophen wie Erdbeben, Tsunamis und Vulkanausbrüche verursacht, überlebt, was ich jetzt mal noch offen lassen will.
Die Moral von der Geschicht? Die kennt der Autor selber nicht! Max bietet zwar ein paar Vorschläge an, die aber alle nicht so recht passen wollen. Vielleicht meint sie, ist ihr Leben nur eine Metapher dafür, dass einer alleine die Welt nicht retten kann und dass alle Menschen sich dafür verantwortlich fühlen müssen um dies zu realisieren. Nur dass weder das eine noch das andere Weltuntergangsszenario verhindert werden könnte. Weder von Umweltschützern noch von Friedensaktivisten. Im Gegenteil: alle Die Aufklärungsmissionen des Flocks über die Globale Erderwärumg, all die Menschen die sie gerettet haben - es war alles umsonst. Bleibt nur die zweite Möglichkeit: Carpe Diem. Sch... auf alles, vor allem die Zukunft und genieße das Jetzt mit den Menschen die dir wichtig sind, ohne über die Konsequenzen für die künftigen Generationen nachzudenken. Das kann's jetzt doch eigentlich auch nicht sein.
Wie gesagt, es ist erschreckend. Das Ende gibt dem Leser zwar nicht das Gefühl eines Schlages in die Magengrube wie das etwa beim 3. Teil der Hunger Games der Fall ist, weil grausame Beschreibungen völlig fehlen. Ich bin auch sicher kein Fan von diesen, aber den grausamen Tod von 7 Milliarden Menschen (!) so dermaßen beiläufig und gleichgültig zu erzählen, ist einfach falsch. Denn das Schlimme ist: So wie das Ganze geschildert wird, ist es dem Leser völlig egal.
SPOILER ENDE
Was bleibt abschließend zu sagen? Wer sich durch die bisherigen Bücher gekämpft hat, dem kommt es auf das letzte vermutlich auch nicht mehr drauf an. Und wie gesagt, lesbar ist es eigentlich. Ich persönlich bin jetzt einfach froh, dass die Reihe endlich einen Abschluss hat. Besser ein Ende mit Schrecken, als ein Schrecken ohne Ende.
Gibt es überhaupt etwas Positives zu "Nevermore" zu sagen? Durchaus und das ist auch der Grund für die drei Sterne:
Nach dieser unsäglichen Katastrophe namens "Angel" ist "Nevermore" schriftstellerisch gesehen eine positive Überraschung. Es gibt zwar ein paar Tiefpunkte (ich denke mit Schaudern an Dylan der Max "Sugar Drops" nennt), aber immerhin bin ich dieses mal überzeugt davon, dass Patterson dieses Buch tatsächlich selbst geschrieben hat. Bei "Angel" hatte ich da noch das Gefühl, es könne sich nur um Fanfiction einer Fünfzehnjährigen handeln.
Auch inhaltlich scheint Patterson einige Fehler aus den Vorgängerbüchern wieder gut machen zu wollen. So wird Fangs Gang relativ schnell aufgelöst und es gibt ein Wiedersehen mit altbekannten Gegnern, die Patterson besser nie hätte verschwinden lassen sollen. Immerhin. Und auch die Charaktere ähneln eher wieder ihrem früheren Selbst als sie es in "Angel" getan haben. So ist Max nicht mehr depressiv, Fang kein halbstarkes A... mehr und der Rest des Flocks ist aus ihrem Trauergestaltendasein erwacht.
Um es mal zusammenzufassen. Das Buch ist durchaus lesbar. Und zwar selbst dann, wenn man der Zielgruppe inzwischen entwachsen ist.
Aber?
Der "Elephant in the Room" bei Nevermore ist ganz klar die Handlung.
Das Buch beginnt einige Zeit nachdem Showdown in Paris. Max und die übrig gebliebenen Mitglieder des Flocks drücken die Schulbank. Häh? War da nicht was vonwegen "Doomsday Group" die alle Menschen töten wollte, um die Welt zu retten? Ja, deren Anführer wurde im letzten Buch ausgeschaltet, aber bei einer weltweiten Gruppierung hätte ich gedacht, dass doch noch ein paar Wahnsinnige übrig geblieben sind, die man aufhalten sollte. Aber nein. Ich Dummerchen hab vermutlich die Lebensdauer von solchen über soziale Netzwerken organisierten Gruppierungen überschätzt. Facebook ist halt auch nicht mehr das, was es mal war.
Erst im Verlauf des Buches wird klar, dass es scheinbar eine Nachfolgegruppe gibt. Der originelle Titel? Die 99 Percenters. Steht für die 99% der Menschen die sterben sollen, damit die Welt doch noch gerettet werden kann. Aha. Anstatt Kinder mit "Kill the Humans"-Plakaten auf Demos rennen zu lassen, wie die Vorgänger das getan haben, geben führende Wissenschaftler Interviews und halten "rationale Vorträge" über ihr Vorhaben. Und niemand sieht ein Problem damit. Kein Geheimdienst, kein Militär, kein Präsident sieht einen Grund das Ganze aufzuhalten. Und Max? Die ist zu beschäftigt ihre aufkeimenden Gefühle für Dylan mit ihren Schuldgefühlen gegenüber ihrem Exfreund zu vereinbaren. So ein Liebesdreieck ist aber auch wichtiger als das Ende der Welt - das muss man schon verstehen. Und als besagter Exfreund dann auch noch wegen seiner einzigartigen DNA gejagt wird, und Max eine Spur der totgeglaubten Angel findet ist sie endgültig ausgebucht.
Die Wendungen, die folgen wirken häufig willkürlich, der Plot lieblos, so als wäre es dem Autor egal gewesen, wie seine Geschichte endet. Leute die tot waren, tauchen plötzlich wieder auf, Leute die mal "gut" waren, gehören plötzlich zu den Bösen und umgekehrt. Die Identität der "Voice" wird entdeckt und ich bezweifle stark, dass Patterson von Anfang an wusste, dass es diese Person sein würde. Wie gesagt, das ganze erscheint unheimlich willkürlich.
Und das Ende ist erschreckend. Vor allem weil es unheimlich nüchtern erzählt wird. Wer es nicht wissen will, sollte hier aufhören zu lesen. Und dringend, ganz dringend den Prolog des Buches überspringen.
Also: ACHTUNG SPOILER!!!
Unglaublich aber wahr - nach dem ganzen Trara von wegen Max sollte die Welt retten, stellt sich heraus, dass sie das nicht kann. Wissenschaftler haben bereits vor vielen Jahren damit begonnen, ein absolut tödliches, hoch ansteckendes Supervirus zu erzeugen, gegen das nur Mutanten immun sind. Und Max erfährt das erst als es bereits frei gesetzt wurde. Auf eine paradisische Insel geflüchtet bleibt ihr nur das Warten darauf das die "gewöhnlichen" Menschen ihr Ende finden und sie und ihre Mutantenfreunde die Welt dann übernehmen können. Das heißt, sofern sie die Explosion eines Meteoriten welcher tektonische Katastrophen wie Erdbeben, Tsunamis und Vulkanausbrüche verursacht, überlebt, was ich jetzt mal noch offen lassen will.
Die Moral von der Geschicht? Die kennt der Autor selber nicht! Max bietet zwar ein paar Vorschläge an, die aber alle nicht so recht passen wollen. Vielleicht meint sie, ist ihr Leben nur eine Metapher dafür, dass einer alleine die Welt nicht retten kann und dass alle Menschen sich dafür verantwortlich fühlen müssen um dies zu realisieren. Nur dass weder das eine noch das andere Weltuntergangsszenario verhindert werden könnte. Weder von Umweltschützern noch von Friedensaktivisten. Im Gegenteil: alle Die Aufklärungsmissionen des Flocks über die Globale Erderwärumg, all die Menschen die sie gerettet haben - es war alles umsonst. Bleibt nur die zweite Möglichkeit: Carpe Diem. Sch... auf alles, vor allem die Zukunft und genieße das Jetzt mit den Menschen die dir wichtig sind, ohne über die Konsequenzen für die künftigen Generationen nachzudenken. Das kann's jetzt doch eigentlich auch nicht sein.
Wie gesagt, es ist erschreckend. Das Ende gibt dem Leser zwar nicht das Gefühl eines Schlages in die Magengrube wie das etwa beim 3. Teil der Hunger Games der Fall ist, weil grausame Beschreibungen völlig fehlen. Ich bin auch sicher kein Fan von diesen, aber den grausamen Tod von 7 Milliarden Menschen (!) so dermaßen beiläufig und gleichgültig zu erzählen, ist einfach falsch. Denn das Schlimme ist: So wie das Ganze geschildert wird, ist es dem Leser völlig egal.
SPOILER ENDE
Was bleibt abschließend zu sagen? Wer sich durch die bisherigen Bücher gekämpft hat, dem kommt es auf das letzte vermutlich auch nicht mehr drauf an. Und wie gesagt, lesbar ist es eigentlich. Ich persönlich bin jetzt einfach froh, dass die Reihe endlich einen Abschluss hat. Besser ein Ende mit Schrecken, als ein Schrecken ohne Ende.
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Quoth the raven nevermore: If it's going in this direction thank you for ending it!
7. August 2012
Von The Bluejay
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Well folks, I had high hopes for this book. While I admit that they may have been unfounded since the series was starting to go down hill, I never expected it to be this bad. This is chock full of SPOILERS so if you want to waste your time or decide for yourself stop after this sentence and borrow it from a friend or the library.
It seems James has run out of new ideas, and the few smidgens that is new material is not unexpected, they are things that I at least contemplated as soon as he brings up the whole "Fang must die!" and how fang could be the next step in human evolution. Yep the immortality gene. While that aspect is slightly more thought through than the rest, which seems to be a bunch of previously done ideas at a third the quality, it still doesn't make the cut for me.
Now let's look at all the main plot sections
1) They go to school... yeah how ORIGINAL that is.... yet again a teacher with evil affliliation, Nudge getting all caught up in a 'normal' life (she's 12 and starts dating an almost 16 year old and gets dumped, big whoop), Dylan gets fan girled over, and they dissect a chicken.
2) ARI COMES BACK. Again. and tries to kill fang. again. and is in cahoots with the female portion (save maya who he kills) of Fangs gang. I don't think we need any more words on ari, and I'll only vaguely reference his new speech pattern (hey, sis)
3) Group wanting to kill off the humans. again. This time they want to get rid of 99% though... Who somehow have people everywhere, who conviently happen to pass by fang minutes after he gets out of the desert... James, are you paranoid or just to done with this to be at least mildly realistic.
4) Jeb is on the evil side but thats okay because he's only doing it to bring his dead mutant son back to life right? And after he tries to kill them all again and gets injured in the process (no duh) Max says how they have to help him. oh and Dr.Martinez is helping torture angel but magically becomes "unbrainwashed" as soon as Max and co rescue Angel, and has somehow managed to organize a practical utopia for them to live in as the world ends
5) Max has boy drama. Which isn't actually "solved". Basically she makes out with both of them and tells them how much she needs them while they drool over her like love sick puppies that then glare at each other when she is gone. Oh and if you havent already realize, Fang came crawling back after Ari killed his precious Maya (they exchanged words of love as she died in his arms and he then goes after another girl. pathetic.)
Then when it seems that the world is completely over and nothing can be done, the world is even more over because a huge meteor goes and destroys their utopia. Yeah. And then whole dramatic death scene, about how she doesn't regret it and it's all fine (ugh) and then wakes up alive. ANd then practically mid idea the series ends, only saying that Angel, Max, FANG AND DYLAN are survivors of the whole thing.
Dear James Patterson,
I loved your book series Maximum Ride and I would like you to know that I do not acknowledge this alleged finale book's existence. Write a proper ending and satisfy the people. For the vast majority, this book is substandard. We will not hold this against you if you write a proper book ( I don't even care if it's a whole drama about who Max picks, as long as you sway me to your point of view for the guy for her). Your efforts are appreciated, and I feel like a jerk writing this since I have never even finished writing one book and this is one book out of so many, and the only I am truly disappointed in. But if you do have the spare time, write a new ending. This one just didn't seem to have it's own plot or shine. Not because it wasn't a happy ending though, I'm okay with unhappy endings, but they require the highest standard of writing. Not many people can pull off the unhappy ending, so I sympathise. I may revise this once I cool off, and read it again (only for the purpose of reevaluating), but for now these are my feelings.
Your faithful reader,
The Bluejay
It seems James has run out of new ideas, and the few smidgens that is new material is not unexpected, they are things that I at least contemplated as soon as he brings up the whole "Fang must die!" and how fang could be the next step in human evolution. Yep the immortality gene. While that aspect is slightly more thought through than the rest, which seems to be a bunch of previously done ideas at a third the quality, it still doesn't make the cut for me.
Now let's look at all the main plot sections
1) They go to school... yeah how ORIGINAL that is.... yet again a teacher with evil affliliation, Nudge getting all caught up in a 'normal' life (she's 12 and starts dating an almost 16 year old and gets dumped, big whoop), Dylan gets fan girled over, and they dissect a chicken.
2) ARI COMES BACK. Again. and tries to kill fang. again. and is in cahoots with the female portion (save maya who he kills) of Fangs gang. I don't think we need any more words on ari, and I'll only vaguely reference his new speech pattern (hey, sis)
3) Group wanting to kill off the humans. again. This time they want to get rid of 99% though... Who somehow have people everywhere, who conviently happen to pass by fang minutes after he gets out of the desert... James, are you paranoid or just to done with this to be at least mildly realistic.
4) Jeb is on the evil side but thats okay because he's only doing it to bring his dead mutant son back to life right? And after he tries to kill them all again and gets injured in the process (no duh) Max says how they have to help him. oh and Dr.Martinez is helping torture angel but magically becomes "unbrainwashed" as soon as Max and co rescue Angel, and has somehow managed to organize a practical utopia for them to live in as the world ends
5) Max has boy drama. Which isn't actually "solved". Basically she makes out with both of them and tells them how much she needs them while they drool over her like love sick puppies that then glare at each other when she is gone. Oh and if you havent already realize, Fang came crawling back after Ari killed his precious Maya (they exchanged words of love as she died in his arms and he then goes after another girl. pathetic.)
Then when it seems that the world is completely over and nothing can be done, the world is even more over because a huge meteor goes and destroys their utopia. Yeah. And then whole dramatic death scene, about how she doesn't regret it and it's all fine (ugh) and then wakes up alive. ANd then practically mid idea the series ends, only saying that Angel, Max, FANG AND DYLAN are survivors of the whole thing.
Dear James Patterson,
I loved your book series Maximum Ride and I would like you to know that I do not acknowledge this alleged finale book's existence. Write a proper ending and satisfy the people. For the vast majority, this book is substandard. We will not hold this against you if you write a proper book ( I don't even care if it's a whole drama about who Max picks, as long as you sway me to your point of view for the guy for her). Your efforts are appreciated, and I feel like a jerk writing this since I have never even finished writing one book and this is one book out of so many, and the only I am truly disappointed in. But if you do have the spare time, write a new ending. This one just didn't seem to have it's own plot or shine. Not because it wasn't a happy ending though, I'm okay with unhappy endings, but they require the highest standard of writing. Not many people can pull off the unhappy ending, so I sympathise. I may revise this once I cool off, and read it again (only for the purpose of reevaluating), but for now these are my feelings.
Your faithful reader,
The Bluejay
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What happened!?!
8. August 2012
Von Sagittaria
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Okay. Now, I just want to say that I have waited for this book, and I am a teenager, for nearly a year now.
I went to the bookstore today and asked for the book, waiting for three hours until they received a shipment, and then fangirled out when I bought it. Like I was half-crying and fanning my face.
On my walk home I started reading it and as soon as I hit the first chapter I knew something was up.
Now, in past books, I know that Angel can communicate with others from far away with her mind.
Did she suddenly stop now? Did she never even consider her probably greatest power?
And then it never occurred to Max that Angel might be back at the School, where they'd been captured countless times.
Come on.
And then, Fang's Gang? What?!
More like Fang, some traitors, and two guys who'll leave the plot and you'll just assume turn out fine.
Y'know, cause that's how James Patterson rolls.
Kate and Star were traitors, and what the heck happened to Ratchet and Starfish? Does it automatically make it 100% okay if they're cast out of the plot like idiots?
NO.
That was a massive gaping plot hole right there.
Next, when Ari came back, I literally said, out loud, "OH DEAR JESUS NOT AGAIN."
He died in the first book.
Then James Patterson was like, "Psyche! Haha, he's not dead yet!"
He came back to life again in the third book.
Died again. WAS BURIED.
Now is another clone.
Killed Maya. WHAT THE-
Maya, I thought, was actually a nice little tertiary character! I thought she was actually going to end up with Dylan! And then I'd be happy!
But nooo.
And then, when he dies again, it was like you couldn't trust him to not come back.
And speaking of coming back, when Fang did, back to the flock, instead of questioning him responsibly like she should, Max will throw A PARTY.
A party. So your long lost love comes back presumably from the dead, and then you make a cake and assume that it's a band-aid.
Oh, abandoned me and your practical family? Here, have some cake. It'll make it all better.
Please.
Then, the Erasers and Ari come back and it's all a crapfest and a massive fight, Fang nearly dies, and then Ari dies and so do the rest of the Erasers.
Boom. There's another plot hole missing right there.
And then we find out that Fang's DNA holds the key to immortality? How would almost fifteen years of being experimented on in the School not reveal that? It's like going to the doctor's in the next, uhm, I don't know, month, and they say this:
"Oh, you just have the key to Immortality, yeah it's normal."
._.
And since this is ridiculously long, I'll just say my feelings on the ending.
Now, Max talks to Fang and then Dylan goes insane and smashes cars because he looooooves her, yeah, no.
IT WAS FAX IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE FAX IT NEVER WAS ANYTHING BUT FAX. Get that through your head, James.
So then when Max and Fang got back together I was saying: "Awh, yay."
Because if she would have ended up with Dylan I would have thrown the book across the room.
So then, when I thought they were gonna go save the States from the 99% group,
THE SKY EXPLODES!?! WHAT!?!
Who the heck told James Patterson that that was an acceptable ending? Riddle me that.
AND THE WORST THING WAS THAT IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MAIN AGRESSOR OF THE BOOK, THE 99% GROUP!
Then there's the tsunami, and then there was the chapter when Max said that she died with Fang, and she was happy that it ended that way.
I was torn between crying, screaming, sobbing, and punches various items near me like a lamp while reading that chapter.
Then Dylan comes in and saves everyone, and I was like,
"TELL US THE TRUTH. DID YOU DIE OR NOT?"
Then it said that she developed gills, and I was happy at least if she didn't die.
And then it ends with her saying that it's, quote, "The Time Of Maximum Ride."?!?!
Oh no, I'm sorry, the last seven books weren't?! Are you KIDDING?!
The last 7 books were the time of Maximum Ride! Who are you kidding! No one!
The world has ended, and now you're saying that it's your time?!
Ugh, I JUST CAN'T EVEN.
I honestly wish that I could give this book less than a star, because I've spent the last five hours watching my entire childhood, tweenhood, and teenhood go up in fire.
I know you'll buy it and read it, but then you'll end up writing a review like me. Believe it.
Sorry I had to write that, but it's true.
~Sagittaria~
I went to the bookstore today and asked for the book, waiting for three hours until they received a shipment, and then fangirled out when I bought it. Like I was half-crying and fanning my face.
On my walk home I started reading it and as soon as I hit the first chapter I knew something was up.
Now, in past books, I know that Angel can communicate with others from far away with her mind.
Did she suddenly stop now? Did she never even consider her probably greatest power?
And then it never occurred to Max that Angel might be back at the School, where they'd been captured countless times.
Come on.
And then, Fang's Gang? What?!
More like Fang, some traitors, and two guys who'll leave the plot and you'll just assume turn out fine.
Y'know, cause that's how James Patterson rolls.
Kate and Star were traitors, and what the heck happened to Ratchet and Starfish? Does it automatically make it 100% okay if they're cast out of the plot like idiots?
NO.
That was a massive gaping plot hole right there.
Next, when Ari came back, I literally said, out loud, "OH DEAR JESUS NOT AGAIN."
He died in the first book.
Then James Patterson was like, "Psyche! Haha, he's not dead yet!"
He came back to life again in the third book.
Died again. WAS BURIED.
Now is another clone.
Killed Maya. WHAT THE-
Maya, I thought, was actually a nice little tertiary character! I thought she was actually going to end up with Dylan! And then I'd be happy!
But nooo.
And then, when he dies again, it was like you couldn't trust him to not come back.
And speaking of coming back, when Fang did, back to the flock, instead of questioning him responsibly like she should, Max will throw A PARTY.
A party. So your long lost love comes back presumably from the dead, and then you make a cake and assume that it's a band-aid.
Oh, abandoned me and your practical family? Here, have some cake. It'll make it all better.
Please.
Then, the Erasers and Ari come back and it's all a crapfest and a massive fight, Fang nearly dies, and then Ari dies and so do the rest of the Erasers.
Boom. There's another plot hole missing right there.
And then we find out that Fang's DNA holds the key to immortality? How would almost fifteen years of being experimented on in the School not reveal that? It's like going to the doctor's in the next, uhm, I don't know, month, and they say this:
"Oh, you just have the key to Immortality, yeah it's normal."
._.
And since this is ridiculously long, I'll just say my feelings on the ending.
Now, Max talks to Fang and then Dylan goes insane and smashes cars because he looooooves her, yeah, no.
IT WAS FAX IT WAS ALWAYS GOING TO BE FAX IT NEVER WAS ANYTHING BUT FAX. Get that through your head, James.
So then when Max and Fang got back together I was saying: "Awh, yay."
Because if she would have ended up with Dylan I would have thrown the book across the room.
So then, when I thought they were gonna go save the States from the 99% group,
THE SKY EXPLODES!?! WHAT!?!
Who the heck told James Patterson that that was an acceptable ending? Riddle me that.
AND THE WORST THING WAS THAT IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MAIN AGRESSOR OF THE BOOK, THE 99% GROUP!
Then there's the tsunami, and then there was the chapter when Max said that she died with Fang, and she was happy that it ended that way.
I was torn between crying, screaming, sobbing, and punches various items near me like a lamp while reading that chapter.
Then Dylan comes in and saves everyone, and I was like,
"TELL US THE TRUTH. DID YOU DIE OR NOT?"
Then it said that she developed gills, and I was happy at least if she didn't die.
And then it ends with her saying that it's, quote, "The Time Of Maximum Ride."?!?!
Oh no, I'm sorry, the last seven books weren't?! Are you KIDDING?!
The last 7 books were the time of Maximum Ride! Who are you kidding! No one!
The world has ended, and now you're saying that it's your time?!
Ugh, I JUST CAN'T EVEN.
I honestly wish that I could give this book less than a star, because I've spent the last five hours watching my entire childhood, tweenhood, and teenhood go up in fire.
I know you'll buy it and read it, but then you'll end up writing a review like me. Believe it.
Sorry I had to write that, but it's true.
~Sagittaria~
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I'd give it 2 of 5 stars, maybe 2.5 IF I was being generous, and it's still a failing grade (no spoilers here.)
6. August 2012
Von TheBookEnthusiast
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"Nevermore" by James Patterson was...disappointing. To say the absolute least.
For a while there I thought that I was reading some bad fanfiction. For a while there I HOPED that I was reading some bad fanfiction. Nope. But at least now I can see why it's ages TEN and up!
The only reason that this book will even have an average rating that's over 3/5 stars is because everybody was giving it 4/5 and 5/5 stars even before they read it. Guess that's what happens when you have high expectations.
Into the meat of the review.
The lack of character development...Strange for Patterson. I feel like every character UNDEVELOPED, save for a certain un-dead person with new enhancements, Angel, and Dylan. I even think /sob/ that I lost some of my love for Fang. How does that happen? How do you stop fangirling over the one character that you've probably, for the last two or three if not more years, been the MOST fangirl-y over? I didn't think it was possible!
IMHO and mofo were included in Patterson's WIDE range of vocabulary. IMHO? MOFO? What...the...heck...Patterson? Are you fourteen now, or what?
I didn't even read the preview to his next book. I was just like - "NOPE. I've paid my dues, I've finished the only two series that I was ever invested in of his, and now I can easily leave him in the dust for actually competent authors. Yes-sir-ee."
The writing was horrendous. Worse than anything else that I think he has ever produced prior to now. The ending was...I don't even...No. It was just terrible.
The fact that the world was ending and the Flock was enjoying their time hanging out with humans, partying, chilling...It was kind of like - I need to take a step back here and reevaluate this.
Then Maya...Fang only seemed to HALF-CARE about her. Like, he was all lovey and then there was an "accident" he was like, "Oh...whatever." I don't even like Maya, and I was pissed off at how insignificant she became at that point.
DON'T FORGET THE PLOTLINE WITH THE GANG. What even happened to everybody in Fang's gang? That plotline was just completely DROPPED! ??? I mean, I didn't even like the plotline there, but a bit of closure please...
Not to mention that I came to hate all couplings by the end of the novel. I even came to dislike the Fang and Max pairing, for they were MUCH too cute-sy in this novel. Fang and Max are not good together because they are CUTE-SY. Fang and Max are good because they are harsh, and rude, and levelheaded, but also because they can level each other out. I'd think that they'd only be more-so when, you know, the end of the world was nearing. Which, throughout the entire book, it didn't feel like it really was.
I wasn't surprised about the Voice. Maybe just a little bit, for just a second, but overall, they were the ONLY person that even remotely made sense. I'd theorized about them before, and stuck with it for like the first three books, but then I hit the fourth book and was like, "Meh," and then I though about it again in "Fang," but I dismissed the idea. So. Yeah. Pretty predictable.
The prologue was MISLEADING. It was well-written, and led me to believe that there would be a bit more urgency to the book and lots more damage to the world. No. I can't even...BUT at least I started and ended this novel liking Angel. The fact that she WAS (censored so as not to spoil anything) made her even more compelling to me.
After all of these years yearning for the Voice's identity, by mid-point in this book, I didn't even really care. I wanted the torture over with.
When I started the book, I had disliked everybody suddenly. Even-kind-of Fang. Even Total. Even Max (well, I never liked her much...) Even - sort of - Iggy. At the end of the book...I still disliked them. Even more than previously.
And the Iggy/Ella action. A SENTENCE WHEN THEY HUG. A SENTENCE WHEN THEY HUG. I'm not even that into the Iggy/Ella action, but PATTERSON? You cheated your fans there, buddy.
He really should have killed off Dylan. Really. But Dylan's transformation for, like, the last twenty pages of the book up to the last part where he becomes everybody's, like, "savior," I was rooting for him, I think. He went from pretty-boy to I'll-do-what-I-want boy. I think, in fact, it made him better...It made him able to stand alone as a person, and accept stuff.
Another thing - The Flock was treating the end of the world like Mardi Gras! Going to SCHOOL, conversing with NORMAL PEOPLE WHO KNEW THEIR SECRETS, CELEBRATING things! Meanwhile, Fang was off getting his butt kicked! He almost died - TWICE - before meeting up with the Flock. When he arrived, did they worry? NOPE. They PARTIED. Also, in one part Iggy went - "The end of the world?" Max, in return, said "Yeah, same old, same old," with a grin. Excuse me, but...this is NOT exactly a 'joking matter.' What book are you even a part of anymore, Max-y, because it's not this one?
Max needed to make up her mind. "I loveeeeeeeeeeee him. But...I don't know!" Kissing Dylan one day, Fang the next. I'D even be emotionally stressed from that, if I were either one of the boys!
I laughed out loud when Max, at the beginning of the novel, was talking about how Dylan had kissed her in the rain at the top of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris at sunset previous to this novel, because the number of things that Fang did for her - LIKE SAVING HER LIFE NUMEROUS TIMES AND ALWAYS BEING THERE FOR HER - Didn't...seem...to...matter...anymore?
Also, I LOVE how they just automatically assumed that Angel was dead from the end of the last book. -___-
I made a note at one point, just kind of summing up the beginning of the novel (and it would go on to summarize the rest of it) - "THIS IS SO WRONG. SUCH A BAD ENDING NOVEL, SUCH A BAD BEGINNING TO AN ENDING NOVEL. TERRIBLE. THINGS ARE NORMAL??? This is a simulation or something, right? James Patterson's going to be all like, `JK!'"
There was also the bit where Fang was in the sleeping bag with Maya (CLOTHED, THANK YOU,) and he felt guilty, and I was just like - "DAMN RIGHT YOU FEEL GUILTY. Even YOU'RE sub-par in this book!" Because it was/is true. ALTHOUGH I did like the part when Maya was hurt and all like, "I love you," and Fang was like, "...I know..." but he never said the words back, MEANING MEANING MEANING that he probably didn't actually love her and realized it in that moment.
Then I went on to note that Patterson is the equivalent of Moffat as a novelist, but the difference is that Moffat knows a good plot and can write one.
My favorite character award HAS to go to the random guy at school who saw all of the girls crowding around winged Dylan and went, "I'm gonna have to get some wings." He was the only one who didn't piss me off. Thank you, random stranger, for giving me a few seconds of sanity.
Patterson was absolutely ORIGINAL, as always, in naming his newly-founded doomsday group. The Apocalypticas, also known as the 99 Percenters. GOOD JOB. Because my doomsday group would have JUST as stupid of a name!
I love one comment in which I wrote - "I may start to cry tears...of blood. This novel is terrible."
I even made this one note on my Kindle - "James Patterson, you will die if I do not get my money's worth...I swear it." I didn't get my money's worth. At all. But I'll settle for killing him off in my mind. Brutally.
I'm still disappointed that Dylan and Maya WEREN'T evil (I don't count this as a spoiler, because...well...Everybody knew that there was a, like, .0000001% margin of chance for it to even be that they were.)
When Max started sobbing into Dylan's shirt and he was all like, `You don't have to be strong all the time,' I was like, STOP IT. STOP IT ALREADY. MAX, YOU STOP CRYING, DYLAN, YOU START FLYING OFF TO WHEREVER YOU WANT YOUR LITTLE CRY-FEST TO BE, BUT YOU TWO BREAK IT UP. Because they totally "broke character," you could say, in this part...They weren't even ACTING LIKE THEIR OWN CHARACTERS.
The dialogue was more unrealistic than ever, in truth. I rolled my eyes at 99.9999999(repeating)% of it.
And nobody else foresaw the end-Jeb, whether he would become good or bad...? Like, nobody saw him being what he was in the end? Okay, then...Just me. But it was pretty blatant.
When Max made the FANG/DYLAN compare and contrast sheet, I was just like, "HERE WE GO." The thing was, she was basically really focusing on the pessimistic things about Fang and the optimistic things about Dylan. For Fang, she noted that she "doesn't know how to act around him anymore." Well, your fault honey. Your fault. But it's time to make a DECISION ALREADY. Seriously, you're being worse than Bella Swan...
I appreciate how even Max was evaluating how pitiful and low-life she was at one point in the book. When the character themself can acknowledge that, however...That's just sad.
The ONE SCENE, the ONE SCENE that I would have spent $1.50 on the book for at the max, was the Fang/Max scene where he's just like, `We need to talk. About you. And me." Followed by everything else that happens between them. I'd probably pay another $1.50 for the scene where Dylan goes insane after seeing them. But seriously - Dylan was going, like, suicidal. Not to the point of suicide, but...to the point of physically harming himself. And I was just like - WAIT A MINUTE HERE. THIS IS RANDOM, THIS IS NOT GOOD, THIS IS BAD, PATTERSON, NO. This is NOT how you do character development!
PATTERSON RIPPED OFF HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. Thought I'd mention it in case nobody else caught that. Fang was all like, "I heard a Voice, Max," and then said it told him to find her. WHAT? NO. I saw this in The Deathly Hallows, no need for me to see it again.
LET'S PLAY THE FINISH DYLAN'S SENTENCES GAME NOW.
"Not spying, just seeing..." he notes. I finish with - "Not STALKING, just...BYSTANDING."
The thing that enraged me the most about this book? Oh, let's see. How about the fact that the reason that Max was preparing for everything, the reason that everybody WANTED FANG TO KILL OR EXPERIMENT ON, was the most IDIOTIC REASON...EVER. It didn't even make sense! What? How does that even fit in with anything...? It felt totally and completely random.
And the ending. That ending was utter and complete...well, I want to keep this review kid friendly. It was just terrible. I thought that I was going to cry when I got to the last page and it was done...Half of joy for being over with it, half out of sadness for the fact that I felt like my childhood had been ruined in the course of one 370-some paged novel.
Patterson ruined everything. Even Fang. Even Fax. I...I just...feel like my childhood's gone up, up, up, into eternal flames.
I actually...almost...wish that Fax hadn't happened. Not this way. But Fax...became all about cuteness. And not about...being strong. Being complimentary to one another.
So, in short, I don't know what the hell I was thinking in spending...nay, WASTING...my $10.00 pre-ordering this and then staying up all morning (1:00am - 4:00am EST) reading it, because frankly, I already had my low expectations, as after the third book everything had gone downhill by a LOT. This was just a new kind of bad, though. Even for Patterson, it was just...wow. I'd say that it rivals Twilight in writing. And maybe how badly the romance was written. Otherwise, it was better than Twilight in dynamic, just...not delivered well.
Off to make a meme that says, "I eat whitecoats for breakfast." If you haven't already, don't buy the book. It's a waste of your time and money.
For a while there I thought that I was reading some bad fanfiction. For a while there I HOPED that I was reading some bad fanfiction. Nope. But at least now I can see why it's ages TEN and up!
The only reason that this book will even have an average rating that's over 3/5 stars is because everybody was giving it 4/5 and 5/5 stars even before they read it. Guess that's what happens when you have high expectations.
Into the meat of the review.
The lack of character development...Strange for Patterson. I feel like every character UNDEVELOPED, save for a certain un-dead person with new enhancements, Angel, and Dylan. I even think /sob/ that I lost some of my love for Fang. How does that happen? How do you stop fangirling over the one character that you've probably, for the last two or three if not more years, been the MOST fangirl-y over? I didn't think it was possible!
IMHO and mofo were included in Patterson's WIDE range of vocabulary. IMHO? MOFO? What...the...heck...Patterson? Are you fourteen now, or what?
I didn't even read the preview to his next book. I was just like - "NOPE. I've paid my dues, I've finished the only two series that I was ever invested in of his, and now I can easily leave him in the dust for actually competent authors. Yes-sir-ee."
The writing was horrendous. Worse than anything else that I think he has ever produced prior to now. The ending was...I don't even...No. It was just terrible.
The fact that the world was ending and the Flock was enjoying their time hanging out with humans, partying, chilling...It was kind of like - I need to take a step back here and reevaluate this.
Then Maya...Fang only seemed to HALF-CARE about her. Like, he was all lovey and then there was an "accident" he was like, "Oh...whatever." I don't even like Maya, and I was pissed off at how insignificant she became at that point.
DON'T FORGET THE PLOTLINE WITH THE GANG. What even happened to everybody in Fang's gang? That plotline was just completely DROPPED! ??? I mean, I didn't even like the plotline there, but a bit of closure please...
Not to mention that I came to hate all couplings by the end of the novel. I even came to dislike the Fang and Max pairing, for they were MUCH too cute-sy in this novel. Fang and Max are not good together because they are CUTE-SY. Fang and Max are good because they are harsh, and rude, and levelheaded, but also because they can level each other out. I'd think that they'd only be more-so when, you know, the end of the world was nearing. Which, throughout the entire book, it didn't feel like it really was.
I wasn't surprised about the Voice. Maybe just a little bit, for just a second, but overall, they were the ONLY person that even remotely made sense. I'd theorized about them before, and stuck with it for like the first three books, but then I hit the fourth book and was like, "Meh," and then I though about it again in "Fang," but I dismissed the idea. So. Yeah. Pretty predictable.
The prologue was MISLEADING. It was well-written, and led me to believe that there would be a bit more urgency to the book and lots more damage to the world. No. I can't even...BUT at least I started and ended this novel liking Angel. The fact that she WAS (censored so as not to spoil anything) made her even more compelling to me.
After all of these years yearning for the Voice's identity, by mid-point in this book, I didn't even really care. I wanted the torture over with.
When I started the book, I had disliked everybody suddenly. Even-kind-of Fang. Even Total. Even Max (well, I never liked her much...) Even - sort of - Iggy. At the end of the book...I still disliked them. Even more than previously.
And the Iggy/Ella action. A SENTENCE WHEN THEY HUG. A SENTENCE WHEN THEY HUG. I'm not even that into the Iggy/Ella action, but PATTERSON? You cheated your fans there, buddy.
He really should have killed off Dylan. Really. But Dylan's transformation for, like, the last twenty pages of the book up to the last part where he becomes everybody's, like, "savior," I was rooting for him, I think. He went from pretty-boy to I'll-do-what-I-want boy. I think, in fact, it made him better...It made him able to stand alone as a person, and accept stuff.
Another thing - The Flock was treating the end of the world like Mardi Gras! Going to SCHOOL, conversing with NORMAL PEOPLE WHO KNEW THEIR SECRETS, CELEBRATING things! Meanwhile, Fang was off getting his butt kicked! He almost died - TWICE - before meeting up with the Flock. When he arrived, did they worry? NOPE. They PARTIED. Also, in one part Iggy went - "The end of the world?" Max, in return, said "Yeah, same old, same old," with a grin. Excuse me, but...this is NOT exactly a 'joking matter.' What book are you even a part of anymore, Max-y, because it's not this one?
Max needed to make up her mind. "I loveeeeeeeeeeee him. But...I don't know!" Kissing Dylan one day, Fang the next. I'D even be emotionally stressed from that, if I were either one of the boys!
I laughed out loud when Max, at the beginning of the novel, was talking about how Dylan had kissed her in the rain at the top of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris at sunset previous to this novel, because the number of things that Fang did for her - LIKE SAVING HER LIFE NUMEROUS TIMES AND ALWAYS BEING THERE FOR HER - Didn't...seem...to...matter...anymore?
Also, I LOVE how they just automatically assumed that Angel was dead from the end of the last book. -___-
I made a note at one point, just kind of summing up the beginning of the novel (and it would go on to summarize the rest of it) - "THIS IS SO WRONG. SUCH A BAD ENDING NOVEL, SUCH A BAD BEGINNING TO AN ENDING NOVEL. TERRIBLE. THINGS ARE NORMAL??? This is a simulation or something, right? James Patterson's going to be all like, `JK!'"
There was also the bit where Fang was in the sleeping bag with Maya (CLOTHED, THANK YOU,) and he felt guilty, and I was just like - "DAMN RIGHT YOU FEEL GUILTY. Even YOU'RE sub-par in this book!" Because it was/is true. ALTHOUGH I did like the part when Maya was hurt and all like, "I love you," and Fang was like, "...I know..." but he never said the words back, MEANING MEANING MEANING that he probably didn't actually love her and realized it in that moment.
Then I went on to note that Patterson is the equivalent of Moffat as a novelist, but the difference is that Moffat knows a good plot and can write one.
My favorite character award HAS to go to the random guy at school who saw all of the girls crowding around winged Dylan and went, "I'm gonna have to get some wings." He was the only one who didn't piss me off. Thank you, random stranger, for giving me a few seconds of sanity.
Patterson was absolutely ORIGINAL, as always, in naming his newly-founded doomsday group. The Apocalypticas, also known as the 99 Percenters. GOOD JOB. Because my doomsday group would have JUST as stupid of a name!
I love one comment in which I wrote - "I may start to cry tears...of blood. This novel is terrible."
I even made this one note on my Kindle - "James Patterson, you will die if I do not get my money's worth...I swear it." I didn't get my money's worth. At all. But I'll settle for killing him off in my mind. Brutally.
I'm still disappointed that Dylan and Maya WEREN'T evil (I don't count this as a spoiler, because...well...Everybody knew that there was a, like, .0000001% margin of chance for it to even be that they were.)
When Max started sobbing into Dylan's shirt and he was all like, `You don't have to be strong all the time,' I was like, STOP IT. STOP IT ALREADY. MAX, YOU STOP CRYING, DYLAN, YOU START FLYING OFF TO WHEREVER YOU WANT YOUR LITTLE CRY-FEST TO BE, BUT YOU TWO BREAK IT UP. Because they totally "broke character," you could say, in this part...They weren't even ACTING LIKE THEIR OWN CHARACTERS.
The dialogue was more unrealistic than ever, in truth. I rolled my eyes at 99.9999999(repeating)% of it.
And nobody else foresaw the end-Jeb, whether he would become good or bad...? Like, nobody saw him being what he was in the end? Okay, then...Just me. But it was pretty blatant.
When Max made the FANG/DYLAN compare and contrast sheet, I was just like, "HERE WE GO." The thing was, she was basically really focusing on the pessimistic things about Fang and the optimistic things about Dylan. For Fang, she noted that she "doesn't know how to act around him anymore." Well, your fault honey. Your fault. But it's time to make a DECISION ALREADY. Seriously, you're being worse than Bella Swan...
I appreciate how even Max was evaluating how pitiful and low-life she was at one point in the book. When the character themself can acknowledge that, however...That's just sad.
The ONE SCENE, the ONE SCENE that I would have spent $1.50 on the book for at the max, was the Fang/Max scene where he's just like, `We need to talk. About you. And me." Followed by everything else that happens between them. I'd probably pay another $1.50 for the scene where Dylan goes insane after seeing them. But seriously - Dylan was going, like, suicidal. Not to the point of suicide, but...to the point of physically harming himself. And I was just like - WAIT A MINUTE HERE. THIS IS RANDOM, THIS IS NOT GOOD, THIS IS BAD, PATTERSON, NO. This is NOT how you do character development!
PATTERSON RIPPED OFF HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. Thought I'd mention it in case nobody else caught that. Fang was all like, "I heard a Voice, Max," and then said it told him to find her. WHAT? NO. I saw this in The Deathly Hallows, no need for me to see it again.
LET'S PLAY THE FINISH DYLAN'S SENTENCES GAME NOW.
"Not spying, just seeing..." he notes. I finish with - "Not STALKING, just...BYSTANDING."
The thing that enraged me the most about this book? Oh, let's see. How about the fact that the reason that Max was preparing for everything, the reason that everybody WANTED FANG TO KILL OR EXPERIMENT ON, was the most IDIOTIC REASON...EVER. It didn't even make sense! What? How does that even fit in with anything...? It felt totally and completely random.
And the ending. That ending was utter and complete...well, I want to keep this review kid friendly. It was just terrible. I thought that I was going to cry when I got to the last page and it was done...Half of joy for being over with it, half out of sadness for the fact that I felt like my childhood had been ruined in the course of one 370-some paged novel.
Patterson ruined everything. Even Fang. Even Fax. I...I just...feel like my childhood's gone up, up, up, into eternal flames.
I actually...almost...wish that Fax hadn't happened. Not this way. But Fax...became all about cuteness. And not about...being strong. Being complimentary to one another.
So, in short, I don't know what the hell I was thinking in spending...nay, WASTING...my $10.00 pre-ordering this and then staying up all morning (1:00am - 4:00am EST) reading it, because frankly, I already had my low expectations, as after the third book everything had gone downhill by a LOT. This was just a new kind of bad, though. Even for Patterson, it was just...wow. I'd say that it rivals Twilight in writing. And maybe how badly the romance was written. Otherwise, it was better than Twilight in dynamic, just...not delivered well.
Off to make a meme that says, "I eat whitecoats for breakfast." If you haven't already, don't buy the book. It's a waste of your time and money.
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