Maximum Ride: Cause/Effect

The climax of Maximum Ride: Nevermore is that the sky is literally falling on them, and Max (the main character) and Fang (her boyfriend) go to where a huge tsunami is happening to try to stop it. They wind up getting hit by the tsunami and get washed up on the shore. Now, the reason that they even survived in the first place is because they have gills, and were able to swim to the shore underwater, and survive. Then they go to the other survivors of the tsunami (it was massive), and talk over all that happened. Which, in my opinion, is a lame ending.

One of the only reasons this all happened in the first place was because of a laboratory that Max called the School. At this place, they illegally experimented on kids, making them have 2% avian in them, so they have wings. The names of the people that got these wings are named Gaze, Angel, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, and of course, Max. They form a group and run away from the school to a safe haven, and are safe for about 2 years, before a gang of other mutants come to drag them back to the school for more experimenting, and that’s where the story starts. But as the series progresses, Max realizes that she has to save the world from something, she doesn’t know what it is, but it’s something.

After the tsunami crashed onto the island that they were on, that was full of other mutants like them, they look around and see all the damage that it caused. They know that only a handful of the people that were on the island survived, and the book ends with them going to look for them.

Here’s some surprise information: Angel (The youngest of the group), was the one who told everyone the end of the world was coming. If she hadn’t told anyone that it was happening, and that they were all going to die, they probably would have. Also, if the flock (All the people with the wings) didn’t have gills, the book would’ve ended right there. Which in my opinion would have been better, because the ending of the book makes it seem like there could’ve been more to it, but there wasn’t. The ending should have been Max dying with Fang. A lot of the questions that were asked throughout the book weren’t answer, and I think the entire book could’ve been re-written with a better ending.

Furthermore, the ending of Maximum Ride was unsatisfactory. If the ending had been written better, the whole book would’ve been better, and I personally wouldn’t be so upset with it. The ending was terrible, and if the things that happened weren’t like how they were, I probably would have considered re-reading the entire series, because the books weren’t bad, up until the end.