Great scecond part to the series. Good read for the teens in your life. Exciting,Good read from James Patterson. Leaves you wanting to read more on the characters. Written for the young (teens or tweens) to read. Keeps up with the James Patterson reputation. Even though written for the younger some of James Pattersons followers will enjoy reading the series too. Easy read!

My favorite of the three Max Ride books that I've read. THis one seems less repetative and actually made me laugh out loud several times. I give high marks for that. It kept my attention the entire read.

A less well written "Twilight-type" fantasy series, mostly harmless for the young adult reader. I wouldn't be thrilled if my son read books like this exclusively, though I've read the first three books pretty quickly so there must be something to them. If it weren't so cold I'd call them good "beach books". Fluff with a lot of action and likable characters. The writing is just not demanding or enlightening in the quality of descriptions or the smoothness of the plots. I've read a lot of fantasy and some of them feel real. These plot turns and histories are awkward and artificial. Kind of like a comic book without pictures. THis third one is particularly choppy.

In sum. Easy to read, harmless, and mildly entertaining.

A much better series for young adult and adult fantasy is the Bartameus Trilogy. Deep Character traits that grow with each book.

Ah... a Patterson book with only his name on the cover. Don't see that very often these days! I love the bird kids, okay? I admit it. I actually like Patterson's very short chapters style, it makes it easy this time of the year when I have to grab my reading in short little bursts. These books are easy reading and a lot of fun. This one was no different. A must for bird kid fans :)

I bought the Max Ride series for my preteen grandchildren. I read them first and had some concerns about the level of violence but realize reading a book allows the reader to adjust the violence. My 9 year old made through thefirst Book(Angel Experiment) in less than a week and loved it. She passed it on to her sister and is devouring the next one.

Thank you James Patterson!

This book was the thrilling (see above) sequel to `The Angel Experiment'.

Ari is back, and thirsty for Max's blood. While the Flock is traveling, Fang gets deathly injured by the Erasers, and they are forced to accept help from FBI agents that know suspiciously a lot about them.

It's a wonderful, enjoyable book that you can read again and again. As always, there are a few flaws, but everyone is willing to put them aside to enjoy this book.

But I would like to list the flaws, and see if anyone else is also thinking them.

One, why didn't Max be a BIT more suspicious of the FBI agents? They knew tons of stuff about them, and yet they hadn't done anything about the School or the Erasers of Jeb Batchelder. Either they were cold, callous agents out for no one but themselves, or they were fakes.

Two, why didn't Max just go ahead and use Jeb and **** as punching bags after the huge confrontation scene, just to let them know why they didn't want to go after her again?

Three, why didn't the Flock leave after they found out about the School being a ***** before it was a School? The secret tunnel? Come on! They should have left long before they did.

Four, how does Total know so much about culture, even before he started watching tons of TV while they were at school? Is he a traitor too?

Five, what up with Max II? First she understands Max's loneliness, next she hates her because she was made to be Max, not the original one.

And last but not least, why did Fang kiss a girl when he knew Max had feelings for him?

Beside all that, it was a perfect book, and I excited about the fifth one!