Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

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By the time I got to grade 7 and read it in class, I had already read the first 3 books in the series. In fact, his writing reads like an old man trying to sound young: "Angel stared and stared and stared at Jeb Batchelder" (p.

Booklist described it as "an action-packed cross between Gertrude Chandler Warner's Boxcar Children and Marvel Comics' X-Men. Initially I thought I had picked up the series on the second book because of constant references to what has happened before.I usually really enjoy YA books but this one was more young than it was adult and occasionally irritating because of that. I'd seen the celluloid adaptation advertised in Nintendo Power, but it flopped, and, as I now know after seeing it, for good reason.

All the way back in 2007, I discovered the Alex Rider series by listening to an audiobook version of the first book, Stormbreaker. They are taken in by a former FBI agent and placed into a regular school system to live as "normal kids.I feel like I can relate to him and how sad he must feel to have lost his eyesight to those white-coats.

Some questionable actions (that these kids exhibit to survive) that most parents probably wouldn't want promoted or justified to their kids, such as stealing and destruction of property. I listened to the audio of this book, the narrator is Evan Rachel Wood and she’s pretty excellent so if you wish to listen to this book I recommend it.Not unlike her, i would do anything to protect my brothers and would even give away my life if it made them safe. His characters were also very poorly drawn which made it difficult to be concerned about any of them.