I waited 4 FREAKING MONTHS FOR THIS BOOK (library copy) and frankley, I was disappionted. Sure, you gotta love the chibis (SO CUTE <3) and I love Max's smart aleck lines. But James P. has done better. I bet he wrote this book partially to piss off "Mang (Fang/Max)" fans. But it still is a good book- but it has flaws. Here is a detailed summary.
SPOILERS AHEAD
**Spoiler Alert**
So it starts off from when manga 5 ended (Angel holding a very scary scythe and saying "Goodbye" in a sorta psycho way). Ari appears and rips the cage open (in wolf form). Nudge freaks out, and says (actual quote) "Angel betrayed us! She's going to let Ari eat us!" Then Max is like "Um no, I sorta made a plan behind your guys back with Angel. If the worst happens, which it did, Angel would become a spy. Oh and I dont know why I didnt tell you guys. Teehee." *SMACK* She decides to take Ari with the flock, and completely overlooked the fact that he almost killed Fang, and tried to kill them like a hundered freaking times. Fang got p.o.'d by Ari, and seperates from the flock. Iggy and Gazzy go with him, leaving Angel, Max, Ari, Nudge, and Total. (Oh yeah, Total, the toto talking dog? Ari happened to have him in his coat for some reason.) Max's Flock head to Europe. They tour around having fun, and then they find a HUGE Itex Corporation, and sneak in. They get caught by the Director, and she claims she is Max's mother. [Why couldn't my mom be a nice hooker, or a crack addict like Fang's? -Max. xD Best quote everr.] Meanwhile, Fang's flock is in L.A., and Fang's blog is getting quite popular(roughly 972,000,000 kids visit it)
They (Back to Max's flock) are all locked in chains in a dungeon, and they eventually get out of the chains, e-mail Fang
and tell him to hurry up and come help them NOW. They are caught, AGAIN. Back in chains, Jeb
shows up. [I still wonder how the heck he gets around so fast.]
He tells them the Director isn't really Max's mother.
While Fang's Flock are in L.A., Fang gets Max's E-mail. He posts on his blog for kids
in Europe to literally attack the Itex building Max is in.
The Director brings everyone out into this big yard, and shows off the kind of people
that will make it in the "new world". One of them is Omega. The Director had Omega&Max
fight to the death. While they're fighting, Angel controls all the other experiments in the
yard [that were supposed o be terminated soon.] to start attacking stuff. Max is fighting Omega,
and Angel, Nudge, Ari&the other experiments are fighting Flyboys. All those kids
Fang told to attack the Itex building? They came. The Director sent Flyboys after them, but all the
Flyboys crashed into the fence, which was electrified, so they were all destroyed. The kids
bust in, Fang's flock shows up, and Max kicks Omega's butt, even though he was designed "perfect." Ari during this. :'( His expiration date came, and it was sad. So the Flock is back
together, and they had figured out Jeb is Max's father, Ari is[was.] he half-brother, and Dr. Martinez is her biological mom.
My thoughts: one, what is with all these bombs being dropped on us?!? CANT U GET IT STRAIGHT?!?! "O max, this psycho lady is ur mom. No she isnt, i am your dad, and your mom is a woman who looks NOTHING like you!"
Also, Jeb said he had no personal relationship with Dr. Martinez. AND YET YOU HAD A DAUGHTER TOGETHER?!? So u played the cards with a woman u barely knew just to make a bird kid?!? WHAT. THE. HECK??
So, read if you want to. Not the best Max Ride book, but fairly good. Ciao!