The Maze Runner by James Dashner Why did I read it?
This was the title for our TeenBookWorms group in July, but it took me a while to get a blog post up about it.
What happened?
After waking in an elevator, Thomas finds himself in The Glade, with no memory of what brought him to that point.
The Glade is a society, made up of entirely teenage boys, that depend on their own strength, wit, and ordered existence to survive in the center of an ever-changing maze, inhabited by the mysterious and deadly Grievers.
Their only chance of escape is to explore the maze, hoping that an exit presents itself. But,
their society is turned on its head when a girl arrives only days after Thomas, and claims that everything is going to change.
As if that wasn't strange enough, she is the only person that Thomas can seem to remember...from whatever happened before...
What did I like or not like?
While the book takes a little while to get going, it is totally worth it once it does. The plot is something that you aren't expecting, and the mystery surrounding what is going on keeps you guessing the whole time.
Like many Dystopian books, the characters inhabit a dangerous world, full of high-stake choices and situations, where one false move could get you dead. This excitement is coupled with the mystery, right up until the book ends, leaving you begging for the second one, The Scorch Trials. That is what happened with me anyway hehe.
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