The Scorch Trials
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SPOILER ALERT: Anything you can say about the first two books? :)
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I have loved this series so far and started reading the 3rd book, The Death Cure, Sunday!!! It is already a great book and I agree with you about the author not giving us a break!
Well.....I can honestly say I didn't read all that! lolI didn't really like The Maze Runner Series.
Although The Scorch Trials was really good, I didn't much care for the other books in the series, especially The Kill Order!
The first two books were okay, but I didn't care anywhere near as much for books two or three as I cared for book one.The whole zombie-- *coughs*-- I mean crank thing was just dumb, and the love triangle was absolutely horrible.
Mojoboy31 wrote: "The first two books were okay, but I didn't care anywhere near as much for books two or three as I cared for book one.The whole zombie-- *coughs*-- I mean crank thing was just dumb, and the love ..."
Totally agree with the love triangle thingy. LOL
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The first 25 pages of the book “The Scorch Trial” is breath-taking and it doesn’t give its reader a freaking break! The way that the Author narrates the scenes (including all those horrible yucky parts) are very vivid and most of the situations are too irrelevant and fairly just made to be plain cruel yet I’m aware that somewhat it’s an important fit/element for the big puzzle that may predict the survival of mankind against the FLARE virus epidemic that eats up the human capacity to be and stay human. There are scenes that gives me full blast headaches (already saw that coming) and sometimes I find them a bit too excessive (especially the part of the Crank party. So useless. Maybe the unwanted variable and the need for WICKED to interfere despite their strong necessity to abide their own established rule not to do anything to help the subjects so as not to spoil their responses hence, might affect the data for the planned blueprint which is only good as one course, one shot only…hence, they can’t afford to make mistakes. Now I will have to read the third book as an obligation to my nagging inner curiosity hoping that everything will be cleared out in there. lol).
This is why I love this book. Its full in action and less in dramas. Yes, there were times when the characters shed tears but that’s that and the next thing you know, they are moving again because they don’t have all the luxury of time to wander around in the “wuss-puss” corner. :PI find the scene where betrayal took place a bit…irrelevant (again) and as usual, the ending is still hanging like capital WTF?! Lol. I rated it 3.5-4.0 out of 5.0 because it keeps me going and thinking what to do next, what the WICKED facility is trying to point out in every experimental trial and the meaning of all Thomas dreams…or should I say, pieces of his lost memories (or maybe one of those positive variables embedded in the shuck brain of his to push everyone and keep them moving) and why there are only few of them that have specific special human ability. I still can’t figure out why WICKED have the intense need to jack down all their memories (I promise…every facets in this trilogy are unpredictable and yeah…plain crazy.) in order for them to get suitable data for success of the project.
Almost all characters practically evolved in this book! And yes, that includes Frypan too lol. I came to appreciate Thomas’ smartness even more and that makes me want to predict and weigh his every next course of action. Why do the WICKED team always give them rigid instructions yet means the other way? I understand why all the variables must be heartless (provided that they are aiming to make a blueprint out of their subject’s responses to levels of variables and in order for them to come up with a good blueprint, they have to make the trials above the limit of one’s capacity as to avoid failure or diminish possible errors during the execution phase…and to weed-out the incapables. Through this, it gave me the strong feeling that the blueprint might be in the mind pattern of someone or maybe the surviving Gladers and the Team B as a whole. Stuffs like that. Just a thought. Don’t know the big picture yet) though I don’t know yet why it should be that way and the assurance of Teresa from the beginning that WICKED is good. Having known her as a sensible person who knows and means every word she says…its just so damn confusing yet exciting. It’s really crazy to say all those stuffs especially many teens already lost their lives just to pass the Grievers test in Book 1. However, something ticks in me that maybe WICKED must also be good considering that Thomas used to work in that company before they wiped out his memory along with Teresa…and he was one of the creators of The Maze project. He may have had sacrificed himself for a greater purpose or maybe something went wrong that he just have to join to face that unsolvable variable himself because he’s the only one who holds the key. Well, I definitely can’t say that the WICKED forced him to join the Maze leading to the Scorch trial because when the WICKED medic team came for him to get rid of the infection caused by the unwanted variable, one of the staff talked to him like he’s really a part of the WICKED team. Even her laugh gave him the homely feeling. Hmmm (I’m having mixed feelings about The WICKED whether they are good or bad actually…can’t conclude yet.) Minho’s (Goodness!!! My Minho…How I love that guy since Book 1) character was already strongly established in the first book and his excellent leadership and humorous sarcasms makes my day. He’s always there for Thomas and always ready to clean up all his co-maze-runner’s mess lol. (Guys who knows what they want and how to get what they want really captures my attention and Minho is the one. Lol.) I still don’t know why Aris irritates me until now. I have a bad feeling about that guy. Let’s just see in the third book for any change of heart. One can’t really underestimate that Aris guy.
The only thing that I can’t seem to correlate is the “resources” part. Ratman made mention to the Gladers back in the WICKED facility that they have to understand the resources involved in every injected variable of which it wasn’t elaborated or made obvious throughout the book (I hope it’ll be explained in the third book) except for the fact that they appear in the scenes like magic. Lol…or maybe I’m looking at this angle the wrong way. Hmmm I doubt. There’s really something lacking in there.
Overall, this is actually a good dystopian series. The first book gives you the feeling of being trapped in a box where all you have to do is gather everything you got, don’t believe in everything that people are saying just to stop you from doing what your inner guts has been telling you and just get out from your comfort zone before it’s too late. This 2nd book talks about defying variables in life, playing your role…and playing it good. Looking forward of reading James Dashner’s third book: The Death Cure!
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