Max quickly sends out a message to the other four bird kids in their respective homes that they are in danger. But there’s no doubt that sooner or later the evil Kane will have his quarry caged, now in the company of the beloved protectors on whom they’ve imprinted for life, and will be crowing over them as he contemplates his plans for what amounts to world domination. Not only is the cast identical (except for the villain) to "When the Wind Blows" (namely, Kit, Frannie, and the six bird-children), but the plot is virtually the same as well, substituting the evil "Hospital" for the evil "School" that hatched the kids in the first place. I really enjoyed The Lake House by James Patterson i hadn't read him for a long time so decided to go for it. I really wish this would have been expressed somewhere in the synopsis or even on the beginning pages of this book.

Sadly, the herky-jerky nature of the book cannot be blamed on poor editing during the process of abridgement because this is an unabridged reading.

We would urge you to skip the original story else it will probably spoil this one out of sheer similarity. Exactly how his prey—Max and Matthew, older teenagers Ozymandias and Icarus, and four-year-old twins Peter and Wendy—fit into Kane’s nefarious, grandiose schemes is no more clear than why anybody hasn’t made inquiries about the hundreds of earlier victims he’s lured into his den at the Hauer Institute.

I had just read the book's climax, which was terrible in every way possible, and I just didn't have any desire to know what would happen in the last twenty pages. Even the title I would say isn't justified properly, there is a mention of the Lake House throughout but it is over-stretched to no end. The new bad guys came out of nowhere, yet Max somehow knows about them, supposedly from clues when she worked at the School.In this book, Oz is “the eldest after Max, the strongest, the alpha male,” and “younger by a few months than Max. So, I started off with the series opener, When the wind blows, which I thoroughly enjoyed - birdlike, flying kids running from evil men - whats not to enjoy? Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs. The sequel to When The Wind Blows, widens and broadens out the adventures of the flying kids, the FBI agent and the veterinarian in The Rockies. The memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling novel, and it's one that really soars!

Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival.Kit, Frannie and the children are on the run but the doctor has sources within the government that leads him and his minions to their hideout. This is a terrible book and shouldn't be read by anyone except in possibly a Mystery Science Theatre kind of appreciation for the kind of entertainment that is so bad it's funny. Anyways I had picked it up to be used as a filler but 400 pages of sheer pain was something that now I need a book which should bail me out of what this one has given me :). I'm not in favor of censorship, but I threw my copy away because I didn't want anyone else to make the mistake of reading this garbage.