Never-More!

MAY CONTAIN SOME SPOILERS!

Never-More by James Patterson

I have recently finished Never-More by James Patterson, the last book in the Maximum Ride Series (Great series, in my opinion-you should read!). It’s about how Maximum Ride (Or Max) must save the world; she’s been told that the end of the world and it’s up to her to save it, that, or perish along with the ones destined to die-some mutants can only live. Max could probably save the world or some of it anyway, but there are many things stopping her. One thing, which is a big problem, Max must decide if she wants to be with either Dylan-new flock member, considered Max’s ‘perfect other half’- or Fang-Quiet independent guy who Max has known all her life. Now, I know what you’re thinking (Yes, I’m a mind reader, and I possibly know what you’re thinking) Why is romance so big when the world is about to end?  

But, think of it this way, Max can save the world, but she needs someone with her, she would have her other flock members-Iggy, Nudge, or Gazzy-with her to fight, but she feels they’re too young. (Also, it’s mentioned in the others books-so it might be really important, no?) So, Max needs to choose between the one made for her-Dylan-or the one she thinks is made for her really-Fang, before the whole world ends, or they all die. But there are problems with that. For one, Fang is gone; he thought that it was best for him to leave since he’s been told that he can danger Max and the whole Flock, leaving Max heart-broken. But, he comes back-but that’s bad too, since Max has already had complications with him leaving, so coming back, she just won’t be able to take it-especially since she’s gotten closer to Dylan.  (Way to go Fang…)And for another, Fang is destined to die-the School scientists-where they were trapped and experimented on since they’re kids with wings-want to kill Fang, because while doing an experiment, they found out that Fang has something in his DNA that could lead the world ending, or something more disastrous. 

Okay, stop right there! I may know what you’re thinking, Fang has something that could kill the world, and Max has to save the world from being killed, doesn’t that mean that Fang has to be killed or something? Well, no, Fang does not have to die! (Kill him; there will be hell to pay-he’s a good person!) Fang may hold something that could kill, but it doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how to use it (he doesn’t, he only knows) also, Fang isn’t bad; it’s the scientists that want to test with his DNA. And because of that, Fang is being hunted down by Erasers-half men, half wolf, super vicious-and other people, insisting that he must die before anything bad can happen.

Okay, let’s go to Dylan, enough about Fang. Firstly, Dylan was made for Max, he was programmed to love her and her only, and he’d do anything for her (Sweet, right?). He follows her anywhere, protects her, and tells her things that the School tells him. (No, he’s not working for the School, the School wants Dylan to be with Max, as much as he does-it’s part of the whole Saving-the-world Game.) Now, remember when anything meant anything, and how Dylan had contact with the School? Well, Dylan has been given a mission from them-something he could possibly benefit from-killing Fang. Dylan knows as well as Max Fang could kill the world if people got his hands on him, so he’s like, killing Fang won’t be so bad, the world is being saved, right? Also, killing Fang gives Dylan an increase of winning Max’s heart. (Just so you know, Max kinda likes Dylan but not as much as she loves Fang so…) So, Dylan teams up a bit with the School when the major battle is taking place-and tries to kill Fang-only being stopped by Max’s pleas and fleeing from the scene, leaving a shocked Max, Flock, and injured everyone, crying in pain. 

Max, now, has made her choice, though she’s kinda liked Dylan; he crossed the line trying to hurt Fang, plus, she feels more comfortable with Fang-she’s known him all her life, Dylan only for about 2 months, feeling the pressure of him wanting to be with her.

And now it’s the end. Max and Fang must save the world, though, they also need to keep Fang safe, which they kinda do by going to some Island which was designed to save them, and keep them safe while the world is destroyed. Fang and the Flock want to relax on the island, but Max feels like she doesn’t feel herself…if she doesn’t save the world, she feels she was designed to the save the world, relaxing isn’t gonna cut it for her. So she has to take action. Which she does when the sky to go on fire and fall down upon them, now Max has to do something, Fang choosing to help her while the others on the island go into a cave that’s so superior it can protect them from all of it. This is around the time where Dylan comes back. Though, Max hates it, it’s Dylan who tells them about the sky, who gets some to safety, and it’s Dylan who still wants to help Max, even though he knows she will never choose hm.  But, sadly, Max cannot save herself from the fiery-sky, she and Fang try, by flying but they end up failing, burning together…dying…

Or so it seems. Dylan comes back, saving Max and Fang from death, from death of the burning sky, just as Max is saying (she’s talking to the reader): ‘before I go, even if you’ve rolled your eyes at every bit of cheesy advise I pulled out my butt when the flocked needed some pep in their patooties these last few years, know that I mean this last little nugget from the bottom of my not-really-cynical little freak heart: Save your world. Love it, protect it, and respect it, and don’t let haters represent it. Don’t leave the saying to anyone else, ever, because exhibit A-why, hello there!-it’s way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life-and death-will have been in vain. It’s yours. It’s all yours for the taking! You’re not going to waste it now, are you?’ Patterson is basically telling the reader, that you shouldn’t let ‘bad people’ take over the world, and experiment on it which could be bad for the world; you have to help change it, before everything happens to what happened to the Maximum Ride people. And basically that whole romance thing he put in there, he put that in there to show, that you can’t help save the world alone, it’s too much, just like Max said, people need others to survive…or everything just crumbles…so it’s time to step up…help save the world…before it’s too late...before no one can fly anymore.