Angel

Yay, another book! I actually recently finished After and still have yet to review The Bell Jar (or more, type it up). But here's Angel. :D

{Before reading review}

No.
 
I will NOT let myself get excited for these books, ever again.
Okay, this is completely stupid. Angel? The frigging six year old that betrayed them like a bajillion times? (So, maybe it was about 6, but whatever; I've never been able to count.)

Really, James Patterson? Are you seriously going to let Angel, a mastermind six year old that can F*CKING KILL THE REST OF THE FLOCK JOIN THE FLOCK AGAIN?

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?

Ugh. All this series has done is gone downhill, and I have not been happy with it, at all. Nothing that the flock does makes sense anymore. Hell, FANG was:

"Oh, Fang, I wuff you!"

"I wuff you, too, Max!"

"Let's make out!"

"No, I have to go. Go make out with Dylan."

"But I don't like Dylan! FANNNNG!"

Oh, yeah, and Angel betrays them. Again.

I don't think the book can get any more meaningless, but I'm not counting on it.

I mean, why couldn't James Patterson just stop after he wrote the third book? Everyone loved the first part of the Maximum Ride series; but there are only few who really love it now.

And yet, this series is so addicting. I hate it now, but it's SO ADDICTING THAT I JUST HAVE TO READ THE NEXT BOOK.

Meh.

{After reading review}

I was wrong. So wrong.

Angel was a lot better than I expected it to be. No joke. I expected terrible crapola but instead, I received puppies and unicorns.

Not really. But I still got happiness.

I was completely intrigued. I didn’t want to put it down, and if I hadn’t had a volleyball tournament today and Daylight Savings ending yesterday, I would’ve finished it in a matter of hours.

Unfortunately, Jenn here still needed her WTF stickies.

On the bright side, Jenn only needed 11. 11! And like four of them were examples of the same thing.

Is this amazing?

Screw yes, it is!

But just so you guys are left on a happy note, I’ll say the cons first, most of which relate to Angel. Of course.

Minor spoilers

Max is always on Angel’s side. She thinks that Angel deserves a second chance, blah blah blah blah blah. Dude, the girl tried to take over the flock! She’s betrayed you over and over and over again! And you just go, “Aw, she’s so cute. Let’s forgive her again so she can just hurt us more or whatever.” In the end, Angel sorta saves them, but hey, whatever. The little freak gets what she deserves.

Angel acts like a little know-it-all. She’s a little too perfect right now. She knows Max, she comforts her, and another thing: her vocabulary is like, huge. For a seven year old. Dude, when I was seven, I was running around the playground pretending I was a Powerpuff girl. And writing short stories. But that doesn’t really count, because they were about unicorns named Ruby. (No, I’m not kidding. I’ll upload the manuscript if you want.) And did I mention that her vocabulary is HUGE? She talks like Max. And Max talks sort of normally, though I have been noticing that she’s been eating thesauruses in her free time.

They’re not fugitives anymore. That seriously bothered me. Max has a cell phone and everything, and I’m thinking, “What? What happened to ‘Let’s not bother anyone in case we really need to and stay under the radar instead of shaking a tambourine and going “Come on! Watch us do stuff!” Whoopee!’” (That’s a lot of quotation marks. But you get the point.) I seriously miss that. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but I don’t like the new “LET’S SAVE THE WORLD AND PRANCE IN FLOWERS!” thing. And Fang’s blog is just a part of that. I questioned this, but never too much when I read the first few books: A BLOG? REALLY? WHAT. THE. HECK.

Bye-bye old villains and global-freaking-warming, hello Doomsday Group.

‘Nuff said.

Dylan. Again: ‘Nuff said.

(Because you know Fang is sexier.)

PROS

The Flock is still hilarious as ever. Max, however broken and idiotic she is, is still her old, sarcastic self, Iggy is so hot as awesome as ever, and Total is still his epic self. So things really haven’t changed that much. :D

The Doomsday Group is a lot better than the other villains. Seriously. These people want the human race to die! Kaboom, all that stuff! It’s better than people killing Max Ride and her gang. Because really, that just gets boring after a while. The end was completely thrilling with all of the intense action and roundhouse kicking and Chuck Norris training videos and intensity and roundhouse kicking and action and I feel like I’m repeating myself. I’m not gonna spoil it too much, so I’m just gonna say that it. Was. Awesome.

The love triangle isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. Max is indecisive, but Fang has run away with Maya!

NOT MAYA!

And so the screaming continues.

Did I mention that I love this?

Angel finally isn’t being a butthead. She’s basically sacrificed herself so she could save the whole freaking world. That’s gotta count for something, right?

Right?

And so has Gazzy. But he lives, so that’s not as much awesomeness. But he’s still epicsauce, I have to tell you that.

And some other notes:

-The DG was like CESSNAB from Going Bovine.

-This was a bit similar to SWOES. Not that that’s bad or anything.

-Max/Maya was totally Fringe. Just saying.

(OMG, PETER JUST HAD SEX WITH FAUXLIVIA)

-James Patterson is… weird. It’s nothing wrong with the book- definitely not with the book. It’s scary. He portrays a teenage girl almost… well, perfectly. And no offense, but he’s a lot older than Max and yet he shows her feelings about Fang and Dylan really, really realistically. In the way that it’s not realistic, but like a girl. If you know what I mean. O_o It’s creepy. Creepy, I tell you.

-So what IS Max's hair color?

-WHY DIDN’T IGGY AND GAZZY BLOW ANYTHING UP?

Spoilers over

So in the end, did I love the book?

Sorta.

Did I hate it?

No way, Jose. (Or whatever your name is.)

I liked it- that’s definitely true. And I would definitely recommend it; just skip the fourth, fifth, and sixth book.

Happy reading!

My rating: 3 stars