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! ( )

The arctic ice is melting... and only Maximum and her pack can save it.
Final Warning is a very intriguing novel which I consider to be the best so far in the Maximum Ride series. Lots of cliffhangers but could get a bit boring at times. ( )

My problem with the story wasn't so much that James Patterson used it as a soapbox for global warming -- after all, it's his book, and he can do what he wants.

The problem, as I see it, is there was NO WAY he started writing this series with a plan to make Max's "saving the world mission" one that had anything to do with this topic.

If you go back and read the series from the beginning, starting with THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT, we all knew that Max and the gang had a special mission, a mission that would save the world. We knew it would be big, and no doubt unbelievable, as most of Mr. Patterson's plot lines are. But if this had been his plan all along, you have to think that there would have been SOME advance warning.

No, what really ticks me off is that it seems as if he decided, with the current state of affairs, to change the whole point of the books at the very last minute, as a way to promote his cause.

THAT'S what makes me angry.

(The only good thing about THE FINAL WARNING? Total's "I prefer canine-American" comment, which made me laugh until I cried.) ( )

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. ( )

Max Ride: The Final Warning

Maximum Ride: The Final Warning is the fourth book in the Maximum Ride series. It’s about a group of six children–half bird, half human–running away from a group of scientists that want to study them along with trying to live their lives as normally as possible.
Usually, I’m a huge fan of fantasy novels, and at first I was a huge fan of the Maximum Ride series. Max–whom the series is based off of–was a great character. You could easily relate to her because of her teenage sarcasm and wit, which is something that we all have. At first I loved associating with her character because it was so easy. You wouldn’t have to worry about what you were thinking if you were put in her position.
As the books went on, however, I began to really dislike Max. Besides the fact that she doesn’t take outside help, which I understand, but she doesn’t like when someone else in the flock (her family) try to make orders either. She likes to do things her way, she doesn’t like listening to other’s opinions.
Also, the series ended up making a 180° turn when they decided that the reason they were created was to save the world. Once they added in the effects of Global Warming the books started to take a dive for me. They suddenly brought in the idea of Global Warming when the only thing they were worried about was surviving to see another day. Now they have to add in something uncharacteristically serious in a novel that was slowly making me loose my interest almost made me lose it entirely because of that.
The fact that the attention then switched to Max’s and Fang’s relationship was what sealed the deal and made me stop reading the books altogether. It was fine in little doses but the fact that it’s such a huge part of the book now is what killed the series for me.
The book is written from a fourteen-year-old girl’s point of view so the writing style isn’t spectacular. James Patterson did manage to keep the voice of a fourteen-year-old girl the entire time, which was one of the only good things he did to the book. The book is a little too fast paced, he jumps from one scene to the next. I admit that James Patterson is a good author, just not when it comes to the later works of the Maximum Ride series.
When it started out, the series was good. Who wouldn’t want to read a fantasy novel about a group of kids who are half human, half bird trying to fight to survive? That’s all the action I need in one book. Now add that they have to stop Global Warming and there’s romance dripping off almost every page, he stripped away the normal plot and went with a cliché, predictable plot instead. I’m not one to stop in the middle of the series so now I have to force myself to read the rest of it.