I’ve always been hesitant when picking a school book that I’ve been told to read. I am even more prejudice when I am told the book is a series. Although I knew I would probably being sucked into another tedious assignment, I reluctantly picked up James Dashner’s, The Maze Runner. I was surprised. I was only able to put the book down after I read 80 pages. As I devoured the book. I realized it was the first book I liked reading since Bud Not Buddy in the 5th grade.



It made me feel uncanny in a good way. As the book would constantly switch from first to third person narration. Thomas a memory wiped teenager who is fast , on his feet, and even faster with head. It was easy to connect to Thomas throughout the book because you knew as much as he did: absolutely nothing.I couldn’t stop myself for having empathy for Thomas. He always seemed sad or emotional about everything wrong in the Glade. The book was immensely more mysterious and suspenseful than anything I’ve ever read. Even more so when the book introduced the Maze, and its colossal towering walls that covered the Glade like a prison.


The start of the book binds you to a box, and our main character Thomas. Once Thomas resurrects outside the box, you are finally introduced to the Glade. The Glade, is a WICKED test facility that sends the next generation of teenagers through a series of trials and tests. Being the only test to escape the maze. But it couldn’t be any easier could it? In a word, no, for the maze changed every night. Along with the Grievers, and the following words “everything is going to change”, after a girl shows up in a town full of boys.

My only real peeve about the book is the ending. For it led up to this massive climax of connecting Thomas’ memories to the maze, ultimately leading to the escape of the maze.
For the surviving characters to rest at this “resistance” base, which is fine. But after the reading the epilogue, the book repeatedly smacks you across the face. For the WICKED organization, only sent the group there to go through another trial. I adapted a fondness of the book, and I expect to be reading the rest of the series