Hawk
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3.9 • 8 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
In this dark dystopian tale, 17-year-old Hawk is growing up hard and fast in post-apocalyptic New York City—until a perilous destiny forces her to take flight and protect her home.
Where is Maximum Ride?
Ten years ago a girl with wings fought to save the world. But then she disappeared.
Now she's just a fading legend, remembered only in stories.
Hawk doesn't know her real name. She doesn't know who her family was, or where they went. The only thing she remembers is that she was told to wait on a specific street corner, at a specific time, until her parents came back for her.
She stays under the radar to survive ... until a destiny that is perilously close to Maximum Ride's forces her to take flight. Someone is coming for her.
But it's not a rescue mission. It's an execution.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Patterson and Charbonnet (the Crazy House series) reunite for this continuation of the Maximum Ride saga, set a decade after the events of 2015's Maximum Ride Forever. Hawk, 15, has eked out a scavenger's existence in the City of the Dead (a postapocalyptic New York City) for the past 10 years, hiding her wings and waiting for her parents to return. But when her found family, a band of mutant children, is kidnapped for further experimentation, Hawk encounters the Flock, winged freedom fighters bent on improving the world. Now reconnecting with her parents including legendary rebel Maximum Ride, secretly imprisoned for nearly a decade Hawk must rescue her friends and overthrow the City of the Dead's megalomaniacal governor, McCallum. For someone forced to grow up on her own, however, the hardest thing may be accepting a family she barely knows. This accessible novel offers a new entry point into Max's world of evil corporations and superhuman hybrids, splitting the narrative's first-person perspective between Hawk and her mother. While the novel doesn't bring anything new to dystopian fiction, it's a fast-paced, action-packed read, ideal for fans of the original series. Ages: 12 up.
