As this book takes place before Thomas's time, it follows two new characters named Mark and Trina. It begins by telling us a little background about them. One year prior to when the story takes place, sun flares struck the earth, bringing unbearable heat, dangerous radiation, and rising sea levels. Against all odds, Mark and Trina were able to escape the disaster and flee New York. Now, thanks to the help of a retired military worker named Alec and his friend Lana, Mark and Trina are living in a settlement in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina.
To Mark and Trina, life finally seems to be settling down. Things seem to be as normal as they'll ever be. But one day, that all changes. Upon hearing the roar of engines, everyone in the settlement runs outside to see a Berg, a giant flying machine, hovering above them. Before anyone can think, men dressed in funny suits step out of the Berg and start shooting people with darts. The town erupts into chaos. In an attempt to find out what's going on, Mark and Alec take down the men on the Berg and board it themselves. Before long, Mark finds a box with a warning label on it, saying it contains a highly contagious disease, or virus.
Suddenly, Mark and Alec are hit with realization. They realize that the darts the people were shot with were filled with the virus, but they can't understand why they would be. They decide to undertake a dangerous mission. They decide to go to the place the Berg came from and learn more about the disease. But there's one thing they are going to have to be careful about. The disease is still on the loose, and for all they know, they may already have it.
To start, I've heard very mixed reviews on this book. Most of them were negative. However, I thought this book was fantastic. At first, I thought the three books in the Maze Runner series would be better than this, but now I think that this book is just as good as the others. I loved how the book gave insight into the Flare and how it all started. I was interested to see that at first, the virus was used to control the population, but as it mutated, the government sort of ran away from it, and the world collapsed into downright chaos. In the book, Mark has strong feelings about this. He is angry with the government, and he is mad that they released this virus without thinking over all the possibilities of what could've happened. I too believe the government should've taken more careful action and maybe even done something different about the whole issue. Clearly, this is a very interesting issue. I also enjoyed in the book how Mark had occasional dreams about his past and about how he escaped the sun flares. This gave wonderful insight into the sun flares and the kind of person Mark is. Simply put, this book was just amazing.
In conclusion, this book was one of the best, most interesting books I've read in a while. I would highly recommend it to anyone. A+
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