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The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride Series #1) by James Patterson

Mystery Book Club

The Angel Experiment Book Club Questions

1. What do you think of the first person narration? What do you think when it switches from Max?
2. What do you think of the Prologue, does it pull you right in?
3. What do you think of the Erasers?
4. What do you think of the bird kids and their family of six?
5. What do you think of Max?
6. The narration switches for first person to Angel, what do you think of her?
7. Why didn’t the Erasers take all of the kids or just kill the rest if they only wanted Angel?
8. Do you understand why Max left Iggy and Gasman at the house? What do you think of their idea of making bombs? 
9. What do you think of Ella and her mom?
10. Do Iggy and Gasman seem to be reenacting the Home Alone movie? However, they kill the bad guys, how do you feel about that?
11. Did you expect Jeb to be a bad guy again?
12. What do you think of Max being microchipped? Were you surprised?
13. What did you think of the prison escape?
14. What did you think of the kid’s trip to New York? Should they have stolen the van?
15. What did you think of the zoo as a hiding place?
16. What did you think of the subway tunnel and the emotionally disturbed hacker boy?
17. What did you think of the various battles between the flock and the Erasers?
18. Why do you think that the Erasers kept letting the kids get away
19. What you think of Ari?
20. What did you think of the scene in the restaurant? Did the kids make a mistake by flying off?
21. Why didn’t the kids go to the media earlier to request sanctuary?
22. What would you have done if you were one of the flock?
23. Who is your favorite character?
24. Why do you think Jeb did not take his son with him when he fled with the kids?
25. Do you think Ari is really Max’s brother?
26. Do you think Max really is going to save the world?
27. Who do you think the voice is?
28. What did you think of the ending?
29. Is it any type of real ending or just a lead into the next book?
30. Do you like the book?
31. Do you want to read more in the series?

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