In Maximum Ride, volume 3 the flock actually have a chance at being normal kids, they go to school, get homework, make non-avian-genetically enhanced friends, and get detention. Someone needs to tell Iggy and Gazzy that bombs (even stink bombs) are frowned upon in school. Of course Max is keeping a wary eye on their newly acquired federal agent guardian because she's learned time and again that you can't trust strangers and she's also having a harder time than the rest of the group adjusting to being a kid since Anne has casually assumed the role of mother, a role Max has gladly filled since she and the flock have lived together. Whether Max can trust Anne is yet to be determined but we know who she can’t trust, the scientist and shape shifters that have been tracking her and her group since volume 1 and they of course do their best to let Max know that they are still around.

I think this is one of my favourite volumes in the series because the dynamic changed and it gave the storyline a nice fresh look instead of continuing along the same cycle of catch and release that had been happening in volumes one and two. The story also delves a little deeper into the past of the kids as they try to find their parents or clues to where they come from but sadly their searches mostly turn up nothing. Still the adventure continues even with a little detour this volume was still fun and allowed for a bit more character development for Max and Iggy.