A good book to keep a young reader moving, Patterson uses short punchy chapters and a fast paced plot to tell the story of Maximum Ride, known as Max, and her family, the 'flock' of mutant bird children created in a laboratory: taciturn Fang, blind ingeneous Iggy, chatterbox Nudge, the pungent Gasman and the youngest, the etheral beautiful Angel. They are on the run from the lab that created them and trying to learn to live having never had a 'normal' upbringing.
Whilst the pace and plot are good, I found it all a little insubstantial and would have preferred more bite.
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