Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure (Book 8)

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Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure (Book 8)

Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure (Book 8)

Maximum Ride and her faithful friends stand ready to face the two greatest threats that humankind has ever known–now combining forces in an unbeatable plot to destroy life as we know it once and for all. And this time, the enemy truly can’t be stopped. The danger mounts just as the boy genetically engineered to be her “perfect match”, Dylan, has finally worked his way into Max’s heart–and just as her beloved Fang unexpectedly returns to the flock. An explosive confrontation between the two boy

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  • The Bluejay “J”

    10/06/2014
    165 of 175 people found the following review helpful
    1.0 out of 5 stars
    Quoth the raven nevermore: If it’s going in this direction thank you for ending it!, August 6, 2012
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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

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  • Sagittaria

    10/06/2014
    101 of 105 people found the following review helpful
    1.0 out of 5 stars
    What happened!?!, August 7, 2012
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    This review is from: Nevermore: The Final Maximum Ride Adventure (Book 8) (Hardcover)
    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~

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