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The Kill Order (Maze Runner, #4 or Prequel)
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So, does anyone think Thomas/Teresa will be in this book? I'll bet they will, though maybe not as much as the other 3
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Wait... you're saying Teresa was in Book 2+3 much? You've got low standards :D
Um... Lol? True that, but I meant will they be in them at all. I'm really excited about it!
Considering my one-star for the death cure: I'm not that excited.
That'd be nice... More answers that is... The Death Cure sort of left me with more questions than answers.
Same here :D
I'd like to know some more about Chanellor Paige... She seemed interesting but it didn't rele say much about her.
^Right? I was like, okay, you brought out these characters that could be really cool, and then you did virtually nothing with them.
Yeah... :) its like we need a book just full of files on every character, their stories, and what part they played. Maybr that's what well get... :)
actually, its about different characters.
Whered u hear that, just curious?
James Dashner said it a blog. I heard about his book, so i checked his site. Then he said it was about some of the same but mostly different
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YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! Ugh... if I don't get some answers my brain will explode. I didn't like The Death Cure at all, because we basically got no new information. And the ending basically said 'I hate Teresa and everyone in the earth that isn't immune so let's just let them all die and we can pretend chaos isn't all around us and start our own little universe' NO. Very UN-heroic. That is basically why i hate Thomas now.
I agree with JC. Brenda needs to die somewhere about a chapter after she was introduced. I hate that Thomas was so wishy-washy about his girls.... Like one second he's after Teresa (who was awesome but didn't know how to do the right thing) and then he's all around Brenda. (who... Kill her. Yes.) Lol.
Brenda is nice i guess and she is good at kung fu but i really liked theresa in The Maze Runner and now it's all about Brenda I just think that the last three important people left (other than thomas should've been Newt, Minho, and Theresa, not Brenda, Gally, and Minho. Wait, did Gally survive?
No, I'm pretty sure Gally died.
well wait i think brenda had a specific purpose (which i do not know) but i think the point was to do the whole betrail problem again and use that as a variable. but WICKED didnt plan this so it adds to the terror chaos(i think)
^could be. It's definitely got plenty of chaos and terror. Maybe Brenda did have a specific purpose, but if I had written the book, I would have either had Brenda sacrifice herself for Thomas or catch the Flare, and Teresa live. Cuz, like, in the first book you start out with Teresa and it would have been nice to end it with her and Thomas. Brenda was a fun distraction for a while, but I was waiting the whole way through the Scorch Trials and the Death Cure for Teresa to come back to Thomas and be forgiven. Kind of disappointing.
IKR! It was like thomas and teresa for the Maze Runner and its like "I LOVE THOMAS AND TERESA!" And then Brenda...
And then Brenda... Yep. Lol.
What are you talking about (SPOILER ALERT) Teresa's Dead she go pinned by a piece of the wall in the third book the only original people I know of that are still alive are Frypan Minho Thomas and Gally.
Jc wrote: "James Dashner said it a blog. I heard about his book, so i checked his site. Then he said it was about some of the same but mostly different"ugh... seriously? I have to read it though or I will die of not reading it. It BETTER BE GOOD.
The Maze Runner- **********The Scorch Trials- **
The Deeath Cure- ***
the kill order- ?????
On a 5 star chart
I actually think the 13th reality is better than the maze runner!
^ Yeah, seriously. The Scorch Trials was great but it was kind of... Kind of just another chapter between the Maze Runner and the Death Cure. It was really awesome how JD put each book in a different climate -- warm and temperate, hot and scorchy, freezing cold.
I'm so excited for this book! I've never liked Thomas and Teresa together (I think I'm the only person on the planet who loves Brenda/Thomas) but I think It will be cool to get more information about the disease and how the Maze was made. Brenda won't be in it though which makes me sad :(
I just finished reading The Kill Order and I am torn. On the one hand, this book filled in some of the information gaps that I felt after finished The Death Cure, but on the other hand I now have more questions. Having just finished The Death Cure, I had a lot of questions. A lot of readers thought that the open-endedness of the series was intriguing, but I thought that there were just too many questions left unanswered to be fully satisfied. One of my biggest objections to the end of the trilogy was the question of why exactly the Flare was released. We are led to believe that the release of the virus was intentional (which it turn out that it was), but there was no reason why. I anticipated that it might have been due to the people-to-resources-ratio, which turned out to be correct. The problem here is that the author doesn't gives a good reason as to why it was decided that a highly-contageous, airborn virus is a better idea than using good, old-fashioned bullets, missles, forest fires, etc. for population control. The PCC anticipated that the virus would spread, but thought that because the settlements were few and far between that it would eventually die-off. This seems like a huge gamble considering there was no antidote. I would have liked a better explanation as to why this virus was the best plan. We get a look at some memo's written between members of the PCC asking for ideas for population control. I wish we could have seen some of the other options and why they weren't chosen. All of that money and technology and the PCC couldn't figure out how to grow food and raise animals underground (aka like in the Glade/Maze) to avoid releasing a deadly virus for population control? Obviously the Flare is the whole point of this series, but I just wish there was a better, more intriguing reason as to why this was the ONLY option. In that sense, I think the author got lazy and was more focussed on repetitive fight scenes with Cranks than explanations.
Further, I was left wondering if DeeDee was Teresa. Based on the timing, I think we can conclude that DeeDee and Teresa are the same person, but I think a lot of people are not going to see this connection. Considering the lack of character development for Teresa in the last book, I wish the author had developed DeeDee's character a little more. I found that I didn't really have a connection to DeeDee. I wish the author had taken this opportunity to really remind us why we liked Teresa in the first book. I think that this could have been done in the Epilogue. Instead of writing about the day that Thomas was taken from his mother - which we already learned from Thomas's dreams in previous books - it would have been more instructive and constructive to tie up Teresa's story and really bring around that "EUREKA" moment where the reader realizes that we have been reading about Teresa this whole time.
I also found myself wondering is Mark was immune too. He didn't seem to be as far gone as Trina and Alec at any point in the book. The author kept saying that he had an urge to kill people, but he wrote similar feelings into Thomas's character and Thomas was immune all along. I guess his love for Trina would have meant more if he was immune and chose to die with her anyway.
I think that people are going to be disappointed that the author chose to write about totally new characters, but I think readers will be most upset with the lack of character development and repetitive, predicatble fight scenes with Cranks...again (didn't we get enough of this in the other three books?).
Overall this book was good and did shed some much-needed light on the release of the Flare, how Teresa ended up with Wicked, etc., but we are still left wondering about Thomas and Teresa, the special relationship they shared with each other and their role with WICKED and the trials.
I thought maybe Deedee was Thomas' mother? I was not really satisfied with the book either. How did all of these characters tie in with the Teresa and Thomas? It was a good book read on its own. But I really don't see how it ties to the characters we followed in The Maze series.
Deedee was Teresa. It was confirmed in the Barnes & Noble special edition of the book, in their special "last chapter".
You're friggin' kidding me. So on the whole we get three things that actually connect to the Maze Runner: The scene at the beginning where Thomas goes through the Swipe, The origin of Thomas's name, and the fact that DeeDee was Teresa?? Disappointing. That really sums up how I feel about this book after reading it. I spent 300 pages waiting for them to get to the point about how tthis was some big revelation about WICKED or something about Thomas and Theresa's past, even something about Brenda or the other Gladers. I got relatively nothing. And in the end, the characters I didn't even care about to start with died! Frustrating. I really expected better from such a phenomenal author.
Whoops spoiler there... Lol.
Did you get yours from Barnes and Noble or Kindle? I guess B&N has an extra chapter at the end about Teresa! I got mine on my kindle and I don't have it, I'm so mad!!
Kane wrote: "Deedee was Teresa. It was confirmed in the Barnes & Noble special edition of the book, in their special "last chapter"."I wish I could read that chapter! Can you tell me what happens?
Kane wrote: "Deedee was Teresa. It was confirmed in the Barnes & Noble special edition of the book, in their special "last chapter"."
HOW DO I GET THIS BOOK?
HOW DO I GET THIS BOOK?
Thomas is for the tiniest bit as a little kid, Teresa's in most of the book.
Teresa is in most of the book but as a little kid. Thomas is in it for a tiny bit at the end.Aazing book!
I think it was dumb. (spoiler) All the main Characters die in the prequel except Dee Dee (Teresa). Kind of a dumb love story! =( I liked the real series tho.
Robert wrote: "Gally Survived!"
Yes... but he's not in this book.
Yes... but he's not in this book.
I know. Someone said that They forgot whether or not he survived, so I answered them.....
Does anyone know which copy at Barnes&Nobles has the exclusive epilogue? Cuz I know that some books for example only have exclusive epilogues, etc in the hardcover versions. It would suck to buy a copy from online and then find out it doesn't have it :(
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