The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, #3) in Shut Up & Read

Apr 07, 2013 Marla rated it liked it

Shelves: young-adult, back-to-back, adventure, boys, series, zz-2014, middle-school, science-fiction, horror, audiobook

Okay, but not great. I just wasn't a huge fan of this series. I didn't love any of the characters and too much sadness and betrayal.

Likes:
* WICKED was trying to save the human race with a cure - the good of the many over the good of the few
* Friendship and loyalty

Dislikes:
* Abducting teenagers for experimentation
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Jun 15, 2012 Jessica Payne rated it liked it

The Death Cure by James Dashner opens at the headquarters of WICKED. The subjects have been rescued from the Scorch and it’s finally over. The Trials have ended at last - at least, that’s what WICKED keeps telling Thomas and the other “subjects” who made it through the Scorch. But Thomas isn’t so sure, and he can’t find it in himself to trust WICKED or anything they say. They’ve lied about having a cure for the Flare. Some of the subjects are immune to the disease, but a few of them are not, and ...more

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Apr 10, 2014 Meran rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: apocalypse, science-fiction, novels, fiction, mystery, fantasy, ya

THIS IS THE STORY OF A NARCISSIST-WITH-A-SAVIOR-COMPLEX, who, regardless of what happens to good people, gets all the rewards instead of a proper comeuppance.

At the end of Book 2, the desk had the barrier around it - here, he can get to the desk. End of Book 2, his clothes were clean, 'colorless', like the wall; now, they're the same dirty ones he's been wearing all along. Inconsistent. And it didn't turn out to be a mind trick.

Written VERY simplistically and definitely not sophisticated, the sh THIS IS THE STORY OF A NARCISSIST-WITH-A-SAVIOR-COMPLEX, who, regardless of what happens to good people, gets all the rewards instead of a proper comeuppance.

At the end of Book 2, the desk had the barrier around it - here, he can get to the desk. End of Book 2, his clothes were clean, 'colorless', like the wall; now, they're the same dirty ones he's been wearing all along. Inconsistent. And it didn't turn out to be a mind trick.

Written VERY simplistically and definitely not sophisticated, the short chapter interrupts the 'action', chops events up irrationally. Sometimes the action follows a second by second recounting of very mundane matters, which, again, slows down the action, instead of moving it along.

The reasons and methods given for this grand experiment are faulty and certainly NOT how a scientist or psychologist, et al, would carry on such a project. Some of the correct keywords are used, in an attempt to appear authentic, but it fails. If any doctor or scientist truly followed their experiment in this manner, not only would he be fired, no one would every hire him again!

One more thins that has bothered me in this entire series: if someone dies, it's noted that if Thomas didn't know him (in a group of 30, that's not very likely), then it's okay. No problem. Sympathetic the boy is not! and who doesn't get to know people in that small of a group?

Flawed series, so flawed. And I'm disappointed, not something I usually admit to. Iv'e read worse series, worse books… but not many.

5 stars among 3 books; that's just over 1 star each. And I have the Prequel yet to read. I don't expect much at this point, but I have this "thing" about reading ALL the books in a series…

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[for some reason, the author is really big on 'the stench of his own body…' -- It's been proven that, after a couple of days of feeling this way, your nose deadens to your own smell. So this perception is just something the author needs to research better. This lack of knowledge of a simple thing calls into question any of his knowledges he may present.] ...more

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Jul 02, 2012 Talai rated it liked it

Shelves: adolescent-books, guy-book

This book reminded me of a blow-em-up guy movie; a lot of action and not a lot of plot development. I felt like the author was more concerned about it being fast paced then about providing an explanation for all the crazy twists. In the last two books it drove me mad that there were never any answers, but I held on thinking that by the end of the series everything would be wrapped up for me. The book's cover even shouted that the time for lies was over. Ummm, I'm still not satisfied! Still a fun ...more

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May 30, 2012 Elise rated it it was ok

ugh never picking up again

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Mar 16, 2013 Stephanie rated it liked it

I'm not sure this series was entirely plausible, but the action was enough to get me through 3 novels. What I enjoyed most about these novels were the memos from WICKED. When I envision this as a movie (and I could definitely see this being a hit), I think that the script would be based on those memos. I guess that means I liked it in some way right? ...more

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