The Death Cure

This is a great book, very addicting and hard to put down. This book by James Dashner is the final book of the maze runner trilogy. I would recommend this book to anybody. You would probably want to read the first two books, Maze Runner and Scorch Trials.

This book is about the flare, a horrible epidemic that makes people go insane. It was a man made disease, intended for biological warfare, that got released when sun flares hit the earth. That is why its called the flare.

To find the cure for the flare, all the nations of the earth united and formed WICKED (World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department.) Then they took healthy young adults that were not infected and ran tests on them through different trials. Their brains were wiped out so they would think the trials are real. This helped them study how the brain reacts to different variables, or challenges that they were faced with. They need to research the brain because that is where the flare targets.

Thomas hates wicked, and so does all of his friends that went through the trials with him. He can't trust them with all of the lies they have told him, and the horrible things they have done to him. Though WICKED is trying to find a cure to help save the world, they will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means killing innocent people. Thomas and his friends, and many other people in society that disagree with WICKED are willing to do whatever it takes to stop WICKED.

This book shows that government, or authority isn't always perfect, even when it seems their intentions are good. They may have the right goals, but not the right steps to get there. WICKED wanted to save people with a cure, but killed innocent people to try and get it.

Another thing this book showed is that the people should have just as much authority as the government. WICKED was controlling the people, taking away there family to study them, wasting money to torture people. More money was clearly needed to prevent the disease, because it was spreading so fast, but WICKED was hogging it all. The money WICKED had could have been better spent if the people had a say in it.

This was a great book. There are some very sad parts throughout the book because of how corrupt WICKED is. It is one of my favorite books though. It is a very addicting book, you can't read a chapter and then put it down. If you are looking for a good book to read, this is the one.