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    The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel

    Written by James Patterson

    Narrated by Jill Apple

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    Hold on tight for the wildest ride yet as Max and the flock take on global warming--Earth's biggest threat--in this #1 New York Times bestselling series.

    Maximum Ride and the other members of the flock are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true...until they're hunted by the world's nastiest villains.

    Max returns in a chilling adventure unlike any other. Safe havens for the six highly-sought-after winged kids have become increasingly hard to find, so the flock takes refuge in Antarctica with a team of environmentalists studying the effects of global warming. In this remote wilderness--whether pursued by corrupt governments, bioengineered bad-guys, or the harsh forces of nature--survival of the fittest takes a new twist!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMar 17, 2008
    ISBN9781600241567
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    The Final Warning: A Maximum Ride Novel
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    James Patterson

    James Patterson is the CEO of J. Walter Thompson, an advertising agency in New York. He has written several successful fiction and nonfiction books, including The New York Times best seller The Day America Told the Truth.

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    Reviews for The Final Warning

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    • 5/5
      Fast paced, fun read. The characters are very well developed at this stage so it's great. The ending felt like a cliff hanger, but a very small one. It was obvious there was going to be a 5th one, even though this was supposed to be the last.
    • 1/5
      Audiobook. I have enjoyed the series up until this book. It was boring, stupid and felt like an indoctrination for environmentalism. It will be a long time before I get around to any more of the series, if ever.
    • 4/5
      One of the things I love about the Maximum Ride series is the comic relief. The wise-cracks these kids (and dog) come up with are hilarious.  Spoiler:The crack about the habitrail and hamster was outrageously funny.
    • 3/5
      Of the 3 Maximum Ride novels I've read, this one was okay, but it just seems like a continuation of the same - abnormal kids are being chased by villians unknown and though lucky breaks and honed skills manage to thwart the bad guy and his evil machines, and find a safe haven.I realize Patterson's novels follow a formula - the characters are likeable and very human, but each page just gives you a little bit more of what you've already gotten.Entertaining for sure, but I'm already burned out on it. On to something by another author and a different kind of adventure.This book was written for the youth market.
    • 3/5
      I have enjoyed the snarky, humorous voice of Max in the Maximum Ride series; however, this installment did little to really capture my attention. Thankfully the chapters are short, so I breezed through to the finish. I personally did not like the global warming story line. I teach teens, and they are not concerned with this world issue. I really hoped that Fang and Max would have an intelligent conversation about their relationship, but alas, one still has to wait for this in the next book (I hope). I'll donate this to the media center at my school.
    • 4/5
      I've been enjoying the Maximum Ride series very much, but this book lacked something that the other novels have. It didn't seem as cohesive. The flock started gaining new skills for no apparent reason. I felt like issues were not resolved from following books, but rather a new one brought up. As usual, Patterson keeps up the action and the characters are charming as well.
    • 5/5
      The final warning is the 4th book in the Maximum Ride Series. Max and the gang go to Antartica to help fight globel warming and later on end up in miami in the middle of a catergory 5 hurricaine. I recommend this book to science fiction readers.
    • 3/5
      I just happened to grab this on audio book in the adult section of my local library. I knew it was a YA book and wanted to see what the series was about. I wasn't sure if I would be able to pick up on the story line this being my first book in the series. It was easy to understand the characters and enjoy the story. This book appears to be more of an isolated book in the series from what I've read of the reviews out there. I am interested in reading the three books before this one now so I can get the back story on all the characters. It was good book.
    • 2/5
      I've really been enjoying the Maximum Ride series, until I got to book 4. This book was a bit soap boxy for me and a platform for the author to preach his opinion on global warning. That's great, if the story doesn't suffer while your doing it, which in this case it did. The character development felt rather empty to me as well this time around, the villains just... existed, came out of nowhere, with no explanation or reasoning behind their course of action. You do get to connect with Max on a more emotional level, but there is just so much lacking in this book I can't write it all down.
    • 3/5
      I love the max ride series, but when i got to this book i was dissapointed. I was expecting max to be destined to have a huge calling that the other books were leading up to, but what i wasnt expecting was it to be about global warming. this to me was a big let down
    • 4/5
      I found that it was quite weird how The Final Warning was a lot shorter than the other three, and although I still found the book intriguing, the whole saving the environment thing was a big leap from trying to save themselves. I still thouroughly enjoy the series and was reeeeeeeaally happy to find out that The Final Warning was NOT the final book in the series! Although it seemed like it when you read the title... hmmm :) hehe nahh it was pretty good but just not as good as the other three in the series.
    • 4/5
      Great new series by James Patterson! I was looking for a series to interest my daughter in reading and I ended up reading them all myself before I passed them along. Safe for younger readers, a lot of action type violence but very little gore, with a pinch of romantic angst built in. I enjoyed them, and so did my 11 year old daughter.
    • 5/5
      Just like the books before this forth book in the series written by James Patterson. I love it. I love how James Patterson writes books. The way he writes makes you want to read this book and not move untill you finish reading.I think that you should have all the books near when you start reading this books because if you dont you might be sad.
    • 4/5
      Still good, still exciting but a little slower and a bit heavy handed on the environmental crisis plot. It's not that I don't agree, it just seemed a bit much.There didn't seem to be as much plot development overall for the series and this was more of a "one shot episode" feeling novel. The idea that Max is meant to save the world from global warning is certainly different than what I expected when I initally started the series. I liked this, just not quite as much as the first three.
    • 3/5
      Everyone said this book would suck, and it did, but not as much as I expected. Yes, parts of it are boring and preachy. Yes, it blatantly and relentlessly pushes its agenda. Yes, it reads like a Greenpeace pamphlet at times. However, it still wasn’t as terrible as I thought it was going to be, perhaps because I had such low expectations in the first place. It’s not good, but it’s bearable because there’s still action, humor, and a few cute Max/Fang moments. The plot can be summarized in a few sentences, and there’s not much character development or revelations about the big-picture mystery. Overall, it’s a skippable installment in the series for those who want to go straight to book five, but if you’re like me and you don’t like to miss anything, it’s a tolerable read if only because it’s short.
    • 2/5
      This is what happens when Patterson runs out of plot line but yet he still needs to make a book. What does he do? Just pick a hot topic and have the Flock wrapped up in it. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for saving the environment, but come on! Is that the best you can do, Patterson? I mean really?
    • 4/5
      Antarctica? Yikes! Max and the flock face lots of new challenges in this book and manage to muddle through with style. It's going to be interesting to see these characters develope as they choose their path in life. Lots of great discussion points for a group or parent/child.
    • 2/5
      I changed my rating from a 2 to a 3. Don't get me wrong, the book is good and I love some of the characters and the way they interact has me laughing out loud sometimes, but I have issues with the central idea behind this edition of Maximum Ride. Throughout it I sort of felt as though I was waiting for something to come along to give current events purpose. The enemy in this book doesn't really live up the hype given to them, I felt. The book didn't really deliver what I expected from the phrase "saving the world." That could possibly be due to my own opinions of politics though! The ending of the book gave me the feeling that we're tagging along on a story which has changed from one big disaster to avert, to "bird kid missionaries on loan." James Patterson has managed to base a whole series on a plot that has never been fully explained and shows no signs of ever being so, and yet, this was the only book that really showed up that weakness. The plot meanders, hypes itself up and then sort of trails off. I understand the concept behind the book, save the planet, join Greenpeace etc. And I'm an advocate of books having a message behind them, books spurring people on and the like...but I just don't think this was the time or place. I really worry for the next book, as I think we've overdone the evil scientists and obscure robot/mutant enemies now, and judging by the ending of The Final Warning, Mr Patterson isn't really sure how to fill that gap. The flock's gaining of random powers sporadically undermines the whole plot really. Even fictional worlds have to have boundaries, but it's almost as though the author couldn't think of anything to fill up a chapter and so just decided he'd whack in an extra new power or two. Are these evil scientists that have been messing with their genes, or supernatural Gods in diguise? It was all very random - events being thrown in for no obvious reasons or benefits.I love the Maximum Ride series, and even I'm rooting for certain things to happen, but this book just wasn't for me. I get the feeling it was a very lacklustre attempt at writing a Maximum Ride book, and I hope in an idealistic way, the reason isn't because he wrote it for the money rather than for the sake of writing. It was a funny book, with hilarious interaction between characters, but little else. To quote Pirates of the Caribbean, "Do you think he plans it all out, or just makes it up as he goes along?"
    • 3/5
      This book was ok, it wasn't one of the better books in the series, and I would have to say that it was actually one of the worst one! No offense! I didn't really like the ending that much, because the whole book was building everything up to this really amazing ending....and then it was totally lame!! I know that the concept that Max and the flock is saving the world by saving the enviroment, but it doen't really fit in with the story!
    • 5/5
      Max and the Flock embark on yet another adventure in the fourth installment of the Maximum Ride series--only they land in the most unexpected place...Antarctica. Along with helping the scientists there, the Flock discovers the negative effects of global warming. Iggy, Fang, and Angel also develop new abilites in the arctic. Their "vacation" from the Flyboys ends soon though, when they encounter a new enemy--Gozen and his army of robots.I think that this fourth book was a great adddition to the Maximum Ride series. Though the novel had too much global warming propaganda for my taste, Patterson really made me open my eyes to the dangers of global warming (other than Al Gore...). Nevertheless, Patterson manages to combine the fact with the fiction, creating excitement with every turn of the page.
    • 4/5
      The series takes an upswing. Max and her flock are now crusading with the "Green" team. Max and Fang's maybe-romance-maybe-not develops a little more. More witty comebacks. Highly enjoyable.
    • 5/5
      I am just starting to read this book a few weeks ago. So I think I am on page 20 something. Nothing has really happened so far except for the fact that Max is now reunited with her REAL mother and her REAL father.
    • 3/5
      If the next book isn't better than this one was, I wish he'd stopped the series at three books because up until then I loved the series. This book left me wanting much, much more. It wasn't a good adventure, and it certainly wasn't a good book on global warming.
    • 2/5
      SO disappointing after such a fantastic series. I'll still keep reading, though. I LOVE Max & the Flock!
    • 3/5
      I just finished the fourth book in the Maximum Ride series. The Final Warning is a quick -nearly pointless read. That being said, I suppose I'm glad I read it. I'm a romantic at heart so I'm all about Fang and Max getting together. These books are written for young adults though so I'm just going to have to settle for a few kisses. I picked up the first Maximum Ride book a few years back -all by accident. Really.A friend was pouring through James Patterson's Alex Cross books. I wasn't terribly interested in them (still aren't) so I didn't give it much attention. She got my attention when she mentioned a book about kids with wings. She talked a bit about the book and it peaked my interest. I'm not sure how much time went by but I decided to get the book. The book I was looking for was When the Wind Blows but I found Maximum Ride instead. It wasn't a bad thing at all because it was a fun, action packed read. So was the second book. The third book was when I started to lose interest. I don't know what happened but it seemed to get pretty tedious. Bird kids get captured. Bird kids escape. Bird kids get captured again. Throw in a talking dog and now a normal malamute for a little comic relief. Yeah, I love Total. Nothing wrong with a snarky dog. *SPOILER ALERT*This fourth book was pretty weak in my opinion. There is a message -and it's an important one - about global warming but the message doesn't come across very clearly. In the middle of an expedition to Antarctica, instead of learning of the work the scientists are actually doing there, the focus is on Max's jealousy, Angel's desire for a penguin, Total's crush on Akila, and then the whole capture thing. Thank goodness for that hurricane or the Uber-Director would have won. I'm all for saving the world. I've made changes in my own life to try to be a good steward of this planet we live on. I think that bringing the problems of climate change, renewable energy, and alternate fuel sources to the young adult audience is a great thing, but I don't think this book did much other than making people aware of the words being thrown around. It was a page turner like always but it wasn't like I didn't expect them to escape in some way. I was bored. What kind of title is Uber-Director anyway?
    • 1/5
      If you like propaganda about global warming, this is your book. If you were wanting a great action/adventure to continue the Maximum Ride series, this isn't it.
    • 1/5
      After reading this book, I began to wonder if Patterson actually had a full plotline in mind when he first started writing the series. The Uber-Director was set up as Mr Big And Menacing, but all he did was turn out to be a limbless flop. What happened to the New Age and Itex and taking over the world? If the American government knew about the School, why the heck didn't they do anything about it? Hello? We went from "I'm going to rule the world by creating the population of the New Age" to "Let's all be happy and recycle!" Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against going green, but Patterson pulled up his Al Gore soapbox at the worst time possible. The fourth book had potential up until, say, about page eighty.Patterson left so many strings dangling in this book that we were hardly any wiser than we'd been at the end of the third installment. We never knew what the whole Voice-thing was about, Itex is still at full force, the School is still operating, and there's probably another successor to follow in the Uber-Director's... wheelchair tracks.All in all, this book was a serious disappointment. I read the ending twice. In a row. Because I thought I'd missed something. But no, that was it. Horrible, Patterson. Just horrible. How could you?
    • 4/5
      Max and the flock are back in this 4th installment of the Maximum Ride books by James Patterson. Max and the flock are free of ITech and the school forever...so now what do they do. After spending time with Max's parents they head to DC to find out what their country needs from them. Some unsuccessful scheming by policticians leads them to leap out a window and fly to safety. Little do they know that the uber director has other plans for them as he sends his minions to capture the flock to be sold in an auction to the highest bidder.Sadly, this book lacks the purpose and lustre of the other 3 books. Without the drive of Max's voice and the tension between Max and Fang, which is still there but muted, it feels like it is missing something. The uber director storyline is not well backed up and seems like a last ditch effort at plot. Patterson leaves the ending wide open so maybe we will see him redeem these characters in another book.
    • 3/5
      You know, what I have appreciated most about this series was it was light fantastical reading. I adored the cute simplicity of it. And, I am all for putting a message in your books. I think it's something to be somewhat expected. Authors tend to put a bit of themselves in a book and sometimes when the characters need to learn something an author makes the reader learn it too. Sadly, I think this book took it a bit far. I believe we have to act against global warming too, but that message overtook the characters and the story. 'The Final Warning' became a warning to us as a people with characters along for the ride to preach it at us.
    • 5/5
      In this book max and the flock and Total go to the antarctic to do research on global warming. They are captured and brought to the Uber-Director. My favorite part was when the Uber-Director didn't know what to feed them and gave them bird seed because they have wings.