AUTHOR: James
Dashner
PUBLISHED: August
2012
GENRE: YA, Dystopian,
Post-Apocalyptic,
SERIES: Prequel
to the Maze Runner Trilogy
WHERE I GOT IT: ebook
borrowed from library
READ FROM: February
21 to 24, 2013
ABOUT BLURB: Solar
Flares destroy the earth and cause a multitude of problems forcing
those left to fight for survival. Mark and his good friend Trina are
lucky to be alive, having escaped New York City from flooding caused
by the flares. Now they have settled into a community with other
survivors trying to piece back together a life empty of family and
loved ones. Unfortunately disease is spreading quickly. Mark and
Trina are convinced that there is a cure and race to find it before
it is to late.
EXPECTATIONS: I
was getting set to read the Maze Runner trilogy but discovered that
he had written this prequel as well so I thought I would read it
first.
CHARACTERS: I'm
sad to say that I never really felt too much of a connection to any
of the characters besides Mark. I felt like some of them were only
there so that something could “happen” to them, sort of like the
red shirts in the original Star Trek series.
WHAT I LIKED: I
liked how we are thrown into the mist of the story after the flare
and how we are slowly shown through flashbacks of Mark how they came
to that place. The book really sucked me in right at the beginning.
I really liked how the whole thing was like a puzzle slowly coming
together.
WHAT I HATED: I
didn't like how it seemed to drag on after awhile. I was really
hooked at first but there is only so much that I can take a character
getting knocked down, punched in the face, getting into a fight or
defending himself before it becomes really repetitive. After all of
that I want to know why nobody ever commented on the bruises he must
have had on his face! It just seemed like it was run here, get into a
fight, get away, run here, get into another fight and so on. I get
that this is how it probably is in Mark's world giving the
circumstances but still it made the book drag on and on.
I also found some interactions between characters, mostly between
Alec and Mark to be very awkward and fake. It mostly happened when
they were joking with each other. It made me start to hate the
characters because of it. By the end I didn't care what happened to
them which makes me sad because I really want to love the characters.
HOW IT ENDED:
The ending was okay but it
seemed to take forever to get to that place. I was relieved when I
knew the end was near because like I said before they were constantly
in a fight it seemed. I get that it is a chaotic world and that most
people have been infected with a disease that made them go crazy but
still!
FINAL THOUGHTS:
The world they live in is a very interesting place. I view it as a
potential future for the world that we live in today if we don't take
care of our planet. While I didn't really love this book I am looking
forward to reading the Maze Runner trilogy.
RATING:
3 out of 5 stars
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