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A review by bookish_words
Hawk by Gabrielle Charbonnet, James Patterson
3.0
I don’t know what happened but in the process of writing this review, I just had so many thoughts that I ended up completely unable to form one coherent sentence about my feelings towards this book.
To put it in the simplest of terms, I had very low expectations for this book and it actually surprised me in a good way. While it does have its flaws, Hawk was a fun read that I genuinely enjoyed reading.
Now, I have been following the Maximum Ride series since like 2007 or 2008, so you can say that I have been at all the ups and downs of the series. There has never been a book that has made me want to abandon the series all together. There are plot points that I wish didn’t exist but that’s beside the point.
What I find to be the great thing about Maximum Ride, is that the characters never fail to leave an impression on me. When I’m reading, these characters are so familiar and it is so nice returning to them, which is why Hawk wasn’t all that bad. I think it is very possible to have good characters within a bad plot
Starting this book though, my main goal was to really try and have an open mind about everything. I didn’t want to have my mind made up to essentially hate the book before reading it and then going through looking for evidence to back that up. I think I did a good job at that. Mostly, it was just reminding myself, Hawk isn’t Max and her group of kids is not supposed to replace The Flock, basically don’t make comparisons where there doesn’t need to be.
Read full review here: https://betweenthoughtsandwords.com/2020/09/18/hawk-by-james-patterson-book-review/
To put it in the simplest of terms, I had very low expectations for this book and it actually surprised me in a good way. While it does have its flaws, Hawk was a fun read that I genuinely enjoyed reading.
Now, I have been following the Maximum Ride series since like 2007 or 2008, so you can say that I have been at all the ups and downs of the series. There has never been a book that has made me want to abandon the series all together. There are plot points that I wish didn’t exist but that’s beside the point.
What I find to be the great thing about Maximum Ride, is that the characters never fail to leave an impression on me. When I’m reading, these characters are so familiar and it is so nice returning to them, which is why Hawk wasn’t all that bad. I think it is very possible to have good characters within a bad plot
Starting this book though, my main goal was to really try and have an open mind about everything. I didn’t want to have my mind made up to essentially hate the book before reading it and then going through looking for evidence to back that up. I think I did a good job at that. Mostly, it was just reminding myself, Hawk isn’t Max and her group of kids is not supposed to replace The Flock, basically don’t make comparisons where there doesn’t need to be.
Read full review here: https://betweenthoughtsandwords.com/2020/09/18/hawk-by-james-patterson-book-review/