Rose Reviews....The Maze Runner

 Title: The Maze Runner
Author: James Dashner
Genre: Dystopian/YA
Published: October 2009
Rating: A-  A slow starter but otherwise a captivating read

The Maze Runner is a dystopian novel where the main character Thomas wakes up in the middle of a giant maze with no memories about anything except his name. He begins transitioning into life in the Glade a mysterious place which is inhabited by the Gladers, boys who like Thomas have no memories of life before the Glade except their names

Within the Glade the boys perform different duties in order for life to proceed in a strange kind of normality, but the mian goal never changes to find a way out of the maze. But that isn't a simple task. Every night the walls of the maze move and Grievers giant part slug machine roam the maze searching for victims.

As Thomas works with the other boys as a Runner to uncover the secrets of the maze he realizes things may not be as simple as they first appeared.

Although I came to love the language the Gladers use, they speak in mainly slang which made the first few chapters of the book difficult to understand. However you soon learn the terms and begin to see them as normal words. However this caused me to spend several days struggling through the first few chapters

However once I got passed that stage in the book I was totally captivated by Dashner's dystopian world and I couldn't stop reading. I finished the rest of the book within a day and proceeded to order the sequel ''The Scorch Trials'' immediately on Amazon.

If you liked Divergent or the Hunger Games I would recommend this book but we warned getting past the few sections is a struggle but well worth it!

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Rose xx