Maximum Ride

Maximum Ride is probably one of the most famous fantasy books now a days. The saga, written by James Patterson, is the epic tale of the young girl, Maximum Ride, and her adventures has a half bird kid. According to her she and her five friend were born in a laboratory called the school, and experimented on all of their lives, resulting in the fac that the children have wings as well as other powers. Before the book starts they escape from the school and begin living with the scientist who helped break them out, Jeb Bathchelder. The books mostly consist of the six children flying around the U.S. running from the schools assassins, called erasers, and trying to discover if they really had parents or were just "grown in test tubes".

I really enjoyed the first book, and the second was ok, but as the series continued it got more and more ridiculous. Things would happen for no reason, characters would get powers and then never use them, and the main character became very ridiculous. I found that they characters were very unrealistic, and didn't change at all throughout the story, the plot, while it was a good original idea, lacked the necessary threads to tie it up nicely, and things happened for no reason and was left unmentioned for the duration of the book. I really do not know what James Patterson was thinking when he wrote this, because his other books are really good (minus Daniel X). In addition to the books there is also a manga (pronounced mon-ga) or comic book of Max Ride (which is released monthly in Yen+ magazine), and rumors of a movie have popped up here and there. In the end though I would give the Maximum Ride saga a 4/5 for originality, and a 1-2/5 for a good sci-fi novel.

Lucky Day.
~Jonesy

Inkheart

So I thought I'd start off with a bang, so I thought I review the Inkheart book and movie.

Although Inkheart was written by a German woman, Cornelia Funke, it's pretty darn good. Inkheart is the story of a young girl named Meggie who gets caught up in her fathers twisted past. Along with her father Mo, her Aunt Elinor, and the two mysterious figures Dustfinger and Farid she must find a way to defeat the evil baddie Capricorn and find her long lost mother Teresa. The book was very enchanting, but personally I thought it was a little slow. the charaacters and plot twist were enthraling, but there was so much potntial for the story that wasn't used. It could have had so much more action, but Funke-san kept it in the 'light' and just made it alittle more than a fairy tale. But even with all of the slowness I still thought it was pretty good. I'd give Inkheart a 3/5 for fantasy books.

But that's not all, we can't forget the movie! So normally when you think book goes movie you sigh and ask God why he allowed such a crime to occur, especially in the case of Eragon. *shutter* And unfortuneatly Inkheart was one of these. Not only was it not true to the book, but it wa like land mines going off, boom! boom! boom! boom! and the whole movie was like that. Fortuneatally it had a great cast. Brendan Fraiser (Mummy), Andy Serkis (Lord of the Rings), Paul Bettany (A Knight's Tale), and Helen Mirren (?) all portrayed their characters beautifully. Personally I liked the movie better than the book, thee book was just a little to slow for me. Also Paul Bettany makes Dustfinger look hot. So For being true to the book I'd give Inkheart a 2/5 for by the book trueness, but a 4/5 for being such a great movie.

Well I hope you enjoyed my first review.

Long live Paul Bettany!

~Jonesy

Konnichi wa!

Hello my name is AnnessaJones or Jonesy. I created this blog to review movies, books, tv shows, animes, and mangas. I don't really know why, I just felt like it one day.

Well, thats about it.
~Jonesy