Hardcover, 489 pages

English language

Published Sept. 5, 2007 by Thomson Gale.

ISBN:
978-0-7862-9887-7
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The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, to try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.

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Why the hell did I read this? Iā€™m a 25 year old bitter adult with a grudge against hack writers like Patterson. This book isnā€™t for me. Iā€™m not the audience. Teenagers are.

If thereā€™s one thing Iā€™ve always hated about Pattersonā€™s work, itā€™s his trademark two page chapters. It makes the pacing of an already bloated and overwrought book unbearable to slog through. And on top of all that, the reader has to endure the most precocious and obnoxious narrators.

ā€œMaximum Riderā€ reads like a 40 year old trying to take on the voice of a teen. Said narrator is surrounded by a gaggle of misfits including the black-clad edgily names ā€˜Fangā€™.

Reluctant readers in the pre teen age range would probably enjoy this ā€˜kid powerā€™ story. Not me though, definitely not me.

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Subjects

  • Large type books
  • Genetic engineering -- Fiction
  • Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction
  • Science fiction