The Final Warning - James Patterson

I got to read this book thanks to Colin W. :)

Do you think it will really be the FINAL one? I doubt it. I enjoy this series a lot, so I won't mind if there are more, but I didn't think this was as good as some of the others in the series. Speaking of which...can I just say

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!

to James Patterson and the folks at his website for the TEN, yes, you read that correctly, TEN copies of the third book in the series that were sent FREE to our library courtesy of James and his website. They offered free copies to the first 1000 schools that applied, and apparently we were in the first 1000. That is SO cool.

If you have not read any of the other books in this series, you should probably start at the beginning, not with The Final Warning, and you're in for a wild ride. It's quite a series. It's also being made into a movie, I believe, which ought to be pretty interesting. I'm not sure how they're going to portray bird kids because I have a hard time visualizing them myself, but Hollywood has some great tricks up their sleeves, so I'm sure it will be good.

Science fiction fans, suspense fans and adventure fans will all love Maximum Ride. 1-3 currently available at the WOMS library; book 4 will be here in the fall.

Audiobook: Maximum Ride - School's Out Forever

While I was driving to and from my librarian's conference, I was listening to James Patterson's second book in the Maximum Ride series, which is a really strange series. Having said that, though, once I started this series, I HAD to keep going, even though it was so weird. It's about some mutant bird kids who have no parents, can fly, and keep getting attacked by erasers which are NOTHING like those pink things on the ends of your pencils. More like mutant wolf men. In this book the kids are looking for their parents, have been temporarily adopted by a woman in the FBI, continue to be plagued by the erasers, and one of them is controlling the leader of the free world just with her thoughts. Oh, and Max, the oldest girl in the story, has her first date. Sounds crazy, doesn't it? And I really didn't think I'd be so into it, but I gotta know what happens next. I think I'll go for a drive. This audiobook is available from Multnomah County Library (as soon as I'm finished with it...)