Monthly review

Q#7 If you've read other books in this same genre, how does this one compare?
Q#8Pick a character that interested you and write about them in depth.


In the novel Maximum Ride: Schools Out Forever, by James Patterson, the novel continues with Max and her flock head toward Washington D.C. to try and find answers about there past that they have no memory of.After had just escaping the clutches of the "school" the group is ambushed by Ari, who has rose from the dead, with his gang of flying erasers. After witch they must head to the hospital where there worst dreams had been realized, there secret has been discovered and is now open to the security agencies. Unlike the previous book , Maximum Ride : The Angel Experiment, the story is seen through both Max and Ari's perspective, so that we can peak in on the plot of the book and also learn of Ari's hidden feelings for Max, and how he wants to have max for himself and try to get her to stay with him. Along their way, Max and the others must be brought under protective custody by the F.B.I under custody of Anne where they must stay at her house and live there.As they spend more and more time with her, they come to like and think of Anne as their new parent like figure, Anne even files for an adoption for them. They then later get enrolled at a private school. While at the school, trying to fit in and get a feel for it, Max and Fang Find love with their new class mates. While at the school, snooping about is Iggy and Gasman, who find old news articles on there school and its corrupted ways. Along the way Max, gains an incredible new power. Meanwhile the cooperation, Itex plans to destroy the world and who to be the leader of the cooperation, Anne surprisingly,  someone with access to the F.B.I and the leader of Itex. With their goal in mind, Max and the others head toward Itex to destroy the cooperation from the inside.

In the previous book , Maximum ride :The Angel Experiment, Max had been the main character. But this time the two characters who stood out the most to me was Fang and Ari. In the previous book he was just this quite character who had stood in the corner and never talked, just gave the occasional nod or smile toward Max to confirm or deny something. But this time he was pretty social, He even started his own blog in the Book called Fang's blog, Witch turned out to be a real blog on blogger.com. If you want to go check it out then here you go. Its pretty cool how he actually talks like Fang inside of the book on his blog. In the book Fang stirs up things between himself and Max romantically. In the last book, Max had kissed Fang thinking that he was going to die on the beach after being mauled by Ari and a group of erasers. So now they have UN resolved issues. And Fang wants to get closer to Max and become and item with her, unfortunately Max dose not feel that way about him. Another weird love angel is coming from Ari. Ari and Max have always been arch enemies in this book, and now he's going to go and ruin that by wanting to be with her. The plot of the book is to capture Max and replace her with a look alike eraser Max and destroy the flock. Once Jeb and Ari had gotten a hold of Max they would kill her, but Jeb has no interest in that, so Ari was going to keep Max caged up and try to get her to like him. There are so many reasons why that is wrong, one is that Max is double the age of Ari, even tho he looks like a completely grown man. Another thing is that, that kind of sounds like what a rapist would do. Luckily, Max's flock can tell when something is up with her, and they expose her for the fake that she is. Ari's plan doesn't work out so well either, Max escapes and confronts the fake Max. After the epic battle between the two, Jeb tells Max to kill the copy because she is obsolete, and yet Max dose not. She spares the copy and flies away after destroying Itex.Kind of a weird love triangle?

Another book that i am currently reading is The contest, by Matthew Reilly. This book is filled with action and excitement throughout the whole book. Steven Swain is a leading doctor at a hospital, where a month ago gang members had come in trying to kill and opposing gang member. Instinctively, he fights the gang members punching one in the face severely and wrestling the other one for a gun. While the two wrestle for the gun, the gun discharges a shot into the members head and is killed. One evening Swain is at his house with his daughter holly and a ring around him is formed where he is teleported into a dark room, which turns out to be the public library. Before him appears a man in white named Selexin, who is his guide in the presidian, which is a fight to the death arena.Now Swain cannot escape the arena, and if he dose he has fifteen minutes to get back in, if he dose not, the watch on his wrist will detonate and kill him. Along the way he encounters big and strong aliens and meets a companion or two along the way to help him fight off the strongest contestant of them all, Bellos,with his previous generations winning three of the seven presidian. Bellos has cheated by bringing his hoods, dog like aliens, with him to eliminate the other contestants and the kranadon, the strongest alien beast in the universe, tall as twenty feet and the strength of thirty men.