Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 1 Author: James Patterson | Language: English | ISBN:
B00AFGJ09G | Format: PDF
Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 1 Description
Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her "flock" - Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel - are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare. When the mysterious lab known as the "School" turns up and kidnaps their youngest member, it's up to Max to organize a rescue, but will help come in time?
- File Size: 125914 KB
- Print Length: 256 pages
- Publisher: Yen Press; 1st edition (October 31, 2011)
- Sold by: Hachette Book Group
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00AFGJ09G
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The title of the review sounds worse than I mean it to, but in all honesty I thought since at our library we have a whole shelf dedicated to nothing but James Patterson books, I thought I was investing in a good read when I picked up Maximum Ride.
Now I know this is the manga form, but the manga follows the book in a very well drawn adaptation. After reading the manga I decided to pick up the actual book, because I felt that going into the manga, I was already supposed to know these characters and understand their relationships. The story just kinda throws you in the middle of things and you have to just go along with it. I felt like I was supposed to know and care about what happened to the eraser called Ari, but he just pops in the beginning of the story, we understand Max knew him as a child and the reason why he's suddenly a 6 foot something wolf-man isn't explained...for a few books. There's some things explained in the book that aren't in the manga, such as what happened to Iggy (which the manga never touches on) and the ages of the characters. Speaking on that, Max doesn't really come across as 14, Nudge doesn't seem 11, and Fang doesn't look a few months younger than Max, they could all, sans Angel and Gazzy, could pass for middle/late teenagers.
I was hoping that reading the book would feel a little more fluid but the manga stays true. The scenes are just as jumpy in the text as it is drawn, so if you feel like scenes were cut short, or it was nothing but action scene after action scene or things were coincidentally fixed or assisted with by side characters (ex. Ella and her mother), don't worry, the book's the same way. I will give a fair warning to those wanting to read the book anyway; it's in first person.
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