Jeb's dead, baby. Jeb's dead.*

Am I too much of a nerd? Because I've been listening to the audiobook version of Maximum Ride: the Angel Experiment and I'm really distracted by some plot holes.
Pretty Spoiler Space Picture from LOC

Plot holes like:

• No one wonders how they found the Flock's secret hideaway on the side of a mountain?
  
• Max hasn't connected the CHIP in her ARM to Angel's kidnapping.
  
• Does no one wonder if the rest of them have chips?
  
• Of course they're being tracked! They're big expensive secret government experiments! I'm building human/bird hybrids secretly, I wanna know where they are.
  
• No one is going to kill a mind reader. Unless she mindread some big government secrets. (But isn't my familiarity with various Judd projects why I'm having troubles here? I keep trying to build a damn universe, and finding out that there are all these other bird/kids in other Patterson novels that aren't here isn't helping much.
  
• Um, the adult disappeared 2 years ago. How are they paying for food, internet access, and, oh, gee, I don't know--ELECTRICITY?
  
• And who taught them to read the internet, anyway?
  
• Max looks in the fridge and makes a crack about "food fairies" visiting. Then, in the next paragraph, someone's eating an egg. Where'd the egg come from?
  
• Are they raising chickens?
  
• Isn't kinda gross to eat eggs if your genetic makeup includes bird DNA?

I don't think this is just an age thing; I'm betting TeenJessy would have the same questions. Of course, she was also convinced that Krychek from The X-Files was an android.

Now why can't I just sit back and let the story unfold? I don't have this kind of problem with the XMen; I just take it for granted that nothing makes sense, people come back to life, and I have no idea who half the characters are or why their outfits are a certain color.

*Actually, I'm kind of thinking Jeb isn't dead, but the title was too good to pass up.