Let’s move on, before I start crying and banging my head against the keyboard. In short: From the first page of the book, it can already be inferred that Patterson has no idea what age group he’s writing for. I understand that it’s supposed to sound mysterious and create suspense to draw readers in, but it just really fell flat.Īlso? It’s not all you can say right now.

Patterson, you just wasted an entire page on a useless statement. Trust me, teenagers do not have the attention span of a squirrel. In all three locations, the series was classified as YA. I went to two libraries and a major bookstore this weekend just to check this out.

It’s the thing that maybe could draw in a ten-year-old.īut this isn’t middle-grade. You know, if James Patterson was writing, say, middle-grade fiction, I could see him getting away from this. I know that sounds a little mysterious, but it’s all I can say right now If you dare to read this story, you become part of the Experiment. The story starts off with this note from Max:

While I don’t claim to have read every single one of them, I know enough to say that Patterson can definitely do better. James Patterson is a Big Name Author, with almost a hundred books published. This series had a lot of potential to be great, and that’s exactly why I’m sporking it. I’ll admit it: The premise of the Maximum Ride books really excited me at first. The Angel Experiment Sporkings: Introduction and Prologue

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