ALERT: ALERT: NEW SERIES

People have been trying to get me to read this series since seventh grade and I just never had the time, but I saw it in the school library and figured I'd finally get a chance to start it since they never have Sweep #12, dang it. So I checked out MAXIMUM RIDE #1: THE ANGEL EXPERIMENT. (by James Patterson.)
What I didn't expect was for the print to be huge and for the book to be written from ages anywhere between 8 and 18. I thought it would be science fictiony, and it was, but there was a lot more to it than that.
We start off with these kids living in a house. Max, the main character, explains how she and her fake siblings, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, and Angel, are all escapees from a place called the School where they experiment DNA mutations. That's how Max and her "siblings" ended up being two percent bird. They've escaped from the School with the help of their sort-of-foster-father Jeb, who has mysteriously disappeared for four years, and now they live on their own, dreading the prescence of the other mutation group the School uses to track down and hunt people like Max: the Erasers. (Yes, sort of lame name, but they're kind of like hybrid werewolves, how awesome!)
One day Erasers show up at Max's house and kidnap the youngest of them, Angel, and take her back to the School. It's up to Max and her siblings to track Angel down and break her free again. The thing is, Max gets sidetracked, then captured herself. And THEN, once the tearful reunition scene is over with, she starts hearing a voice in a her head... and the voice is ALWAYS RIGHT.
This book has huge print and the longest chapter is like four pages. How cool is this? It's like an extremely long EZ Read book, which is a nice break when you've been reading a lot of John Grisham and annotating The Pearl by John Steinbeck for the past month.
And Melissa said she didn't like this series so much, but I find it kind of good, and it's quick and easy to read, it's not something heavy that becomes a burden to follow. I can't wait to check out the next book, I think there's five total right now.