I mean, not only does Angel have gills, now Fang and Max have them too! Oh. Not only does Patterson totally forget and not use all the powers they randomly got before (like, where the hell did Max's super fast flying powers go?), but then he just throws a bunch of new, unrealistic, TOTALLY UN-SCIENTIFICALLY-POSSIBLE powers that just make me go, 'Uhh, REALLY?!?!' Ugh. Plus, I'm about ready to rip the book to pieces because of all the powers that they all KEEP FREAKING GETTING. They've just gotten annoying, and turned from complex personalities to flat ones. I used to love them, but now I'm pretty close to hating them. Plus she's the biggest Mary-Sue in the history or Mary-Sues in the world.

GAAAH I HATE THAT KID!!! She never listens to Max and thinks she can do whatever she wants and thinks she knows everything, and she's creepy and messed up, while everyone thinks she's such a sweet little angel!!! AAAH I HATE THAT STUPID LITTLE BRAT!!! Gaaah. Even calling the book 'FISH' would have been better and more original and creative than 'MAX.' *shakes head with incredulity* Okay, what is up with the title of this book? Why the heck did Patterson name the fifth book in the Maximum Ride series ' Max'? Couldn't he come up with a more original title? I mean, there are DEFINITELY better and more creative titles he could have chosen. It also really annoys me that Patterson had Max and Fang make out in front of Brigid and the flock, and he doesn't show their reactions AT ALL. You know, by the time he finally decides to tell us who it is, I'm not even going to care anymore. I love - excuse me, I mean hate - how Patterson totally forgets to tell us who the voice is in this one. Oh and what the heck was up with Devin? I don't even get whose side he was on, and who he was working for. at least the pile of brains wasn't a total idiot. And I thought Patterson had done the worst when the villain had been a pile of brains in the 4th book. I mean, who puts an illegal nuclear plant underwater and then LABELS IT WITH THEIR NAME? That's like screaming, 'HEY, LOOK! I'm producing illegal nuclear crap! Arrest me, please!' OMG. He's completely flat and boring, he literally has NO motive, plus he's really, REALLY stupid. And at the end, Patterson randomly throws at us a hint that Brigid is a traitor, but then he just ends the book like that.

Max just rescues her mom and then skips off into the sunset with the flock, totally forgetting that some really lame villain is still alive and at work out there. This book is basically a soap opera - a really badly done one with an attempt at action. There's just all these action scenes that have absolutely no point whatsoever. There are just a bunch of random subplots that are stupid, full of holes, and that have nothing to do with each other. It's not as bad as the fourth one, but it's still really crappy.

Max by james patterson