Monthly Review

8. Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.

The character that interests me the most in my book, Maximum Ride is Max. Max is a fourteen year old girl who is intelligent, strong, and caring. Max is the oldest in her family of six. She lives with Fang, Iggy, Nudge, the Gasman, and Angel. They call themselves the flocks. They were being experimented when they were born and they turned into mutants with wings. The flocks had escaped from the scientists lab with one of the scientist Jeb. He brought them to the hills where there is a house for them to live in. He raised them as his own kids and taught them how to fly, learn how to behave, and defend themselves when they being attacked. The flocks loved Jeb especially Max, but four years later he disappeared. Max has to take care of her family and make sure they are safe. He would do anything to make sure they aren't in danger. When they escaped the lab erasers were after them which are half human and half wolf mutants. They have to be aware that the erasers will come and it's been four years they haven't hunt them down yet. Later, some erasers found them and the flocks were ambushed. The flocks tried to battle them off but there were too many of them. Max tries to fight for her life to keep the flocks safe, but the erasers took Angel, the youngest in the family. Max blames herself because she was responsible for her family. Max makes a plan to rescue Angel with the flocks. They went off flying towards the scientist lab held in a school. As they were flying Max sees a girl in trouble and she knows that she needs to save Angel before the scientist will start experimenting on her again. Max decides to make the others wait for while she goes to save the girl. When max is down there she beats up the guys and she got shot by one of them. Max was brave enough to protect this girl. The girl, Ella, thanks Max for saving her and Ella wanted Max to come over to her house so Her mom can help her with her wounded shot. After Max feels better she continues with the flocks on their mission to save Angel from the horrible scientists trying to collect DNA from Angel to make more experiments.

2. For what audience(s) is this book intended, and how can you tell? (In other words, for whom would you recommend this book?)

The audience for this kind of book should be a level for twelve or thirteen years old and up. This book has action and adventure. The kind of book people who like to read books that similar to this one and should start reading Maximum Ride. Some people don't like to read like me and it could be boring. In my opinion, reading can be fun when you are into the book or you want to read the topics that interest your. I would say this book is a good starter for people who enjoy reading and should continue the series. As you read more and more about the story you just want to continue to see what will happen next. This would help younger kids read better with at the images that pop up into their heads while they read. They have good imagination and it would help them understand what's going on in the book. The book involves a lot of flying parts and some fighting scenes. There is actually a lot of fighting scene with the erasers after the flocks. In some parts of the book takes a while to get to the point like when Max got shot and she went Ella's house to get help from her mom. It took about 23 chapters (the chapters are short)until she started to continue her mission. There was another one were it took the flocks about two chapters from California to New York. I find that weird and interesting when the author wrote it that way. If you a friend who likes to read these kind of books tell him or her to read Maximum Ride. I would recommend this book and feel free to check it out.

9. Why did you choose this book? What do you think about this book?

Why did I choose this book Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment? When we were assign to pick a book and reading partners who are Bobby, Brandon, and me. We went to the library to pick out a book. I was browsing around for books until Bobby suggests we should read the book Maximum Ride because he said it was a good book. I went to go take a look at the book and read the summary. I thought it was an interesting book to read and it's good to try out new variety book. Since I am not a reading kind of person it would be good for me to try out this book. When I first started to read this book the beginning caught my attention with some intense action while adding images in my mind. When I was reading, I found out that Maximum Ride is a girl and I thought it was a boy. It was interesting when I read the part where Max and Jeb were talking. Max could choose any name for herself. I was wondering why her name was Maximum and that was when I did not know she was a girl in the beginning of the book. Throughout the book it's awesome the character has some cool powers with their mutation especially Angel. They can all fly and they have like triple the size of a normal human's stomach so they could eat a lot. I would like to have wings to fly where ever I want to go and a huge stomach to feast off of delicious food. Angel is a tough six year old girl. She can read people's minds and talk to them. Later in the book, she discovered a new ability that she could breath underwater when the flocks went to the beach. Since, I have finish reading my book I think this was a good book.