The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner by James Dashner is an amazing book and it really sparked my creativity. Picture waking up in a strange place. How would you feel? Would you be scared? In James Dashner’s exciting fictional book it's going to keep you up until one in the morning with your eyes glued to the page. The maze runner is the first book in this thrilling series that has two sequels, The Scorch Trials and The Death Cure.

Thomas (the main character) arrives in this strange new environment in a metal box in which they all arrived in, to a group of boys, that call themselves the Gladers, who teach him to survive in the giant maze where they live. One of the many things Thomas learns is the Glader language with weird words like shuck, and shank. The most important rule the boys explain is to Not go into the maze at night.

Weird creatures called Grievers come out at night in the maze and inflict an extremely painful sting to anyone who is unfortunate enough to get left out in the maze at night. If the inflicted does not get the cure, nicknamed “the grief serum” then death is inevitable. For the people that do get this special cure, they start going through “the changing.” " The changing," is a side affect to the grief serum and it happens to be the only way to get some of your memories back.

One problem the boys understand is that they need to quickly solve the maze. In effect to that they have special group of boys called runners that run through the maze all day trying to figure it out. The runners have only two problems grievers and they can't make any progress because the maze changes every night.

When two important leaders go to check on a dead Griever and don’t come back, the Gladers become even more suspicious of Thomas because they think he's involved somehow. As the gates to the maze start to close that night Thomas see’s the missing leaders, Minho and Alby. The problem is that Minho is carrying what looks to a be a injured Alby. Thomas of course runs into the maze as the doors are closing to try and help save his new friends. When the Grievers come, Minho takes off while Thomas climbs the ivy covered walls with an unconscious Alby.

There happens to be a major twist to the ending that makes it perfect for leading up to book number two. This is one of the most interesting books I've ever read I mean the ideas in this book are a little out there which makes it actually really good. One interesting thought this book gave me was what if something like that could really happen in our future world? I also think the author may have done that purposely to show what could eventually be in store for us.

I thought this book was maybe a little creepy at times but over all it was really good. I'm not sure if I would want my nine year old brother reading this book but if you're more mature than a nine year old you should be golden.