Date: June 30, 2025
Author: James Dashner
Title: The Maze Runner
I remember when this book first hit the scene many years ago. At that time I knew a very special young lady that devoured every novel while watching every movie as they were released to the theaters Therefore, I wasn’t surprised at how great this book really is. I must say, cliffs and cliffhangers abound in this story.
Imagine waking up in some kind of weird elevator contraption thingy and remembering absolutely nothing of your life. Now imagine with your arrival the previous schedule that had been playing out like clockwork, every day the same, has been upset and now so are all the kids and they’re blaming it on you.
What the kids have determined in the previous 2 years of working as a team with the common goal of survival is there is a giant maze that surrounds the glade they now call home, and it houses some super-scary creatures called Grievers. Thus far they are mostly known to come out only at night, so it is fairly safe for the maze runners during the day to run around making a mental map of the maze. Hoping to decipher some hidden meaning in the ever-changing patterns, hoping one day soon it’ll lead to their escape.
This is not a 100% science that the grievers are never around during the day because sometimes they do pop up and they do attack the children with their ‘stingers.’ When this happens, it is very bad. Not only do they require a serum to not die but their memories return and with them comes the question. Is it really so bad living in this weird environment compared to where they came from?
With the newest addition of Thomas, strange things start happening. The biggest oddity is the arrival of a girl. She shows up eerily announcing the end. All involved are unsure of what to make of the grim message, or the fact the walls of the maze stop closing on their nightly schedule, or that the sun disappears, or that the girl and Thomas now can communicate telepathically.
Will life ever be the same again?