If I had I wouldn't have read this, but I'd bought it cheap based on my like of Patterson's Alex Cross series.

Despite the fact that I felt it did the reader a disservice by existing, it was a work of fiction that had a tiny bit of merit based on the characters and their emotions. The characters are believable, explains just enough science for it to be real but not confusing and plot is fast paced and keeps you interested. Despite her fear that someone is spying on her, Max tries to relax, going out on a date with a classmate only for him to grope her and then mock her. Great chunks of action happen with shorthand writing and then Patterson spends nearly an hour of the 7 1/2 hour book describing two of the characters' first sexual experiences.Like I get it that they are part bird so they're a little different, BUT STILL THEY ARE FREAKING TWELVE!

Max quickly sends out a message to the other four bird kids in their respective homes that they are in danger. We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006).

Visually too the entire book is so weak that I had a sad time imagining the teenage kids with ten feet of wings flying out in open, some times to have fun and at times to save each other from the bad men.