It's like socks-and-sandals - sometimes you just know when something ain't gonna work. I mean, how serious can I take an uber-evil government when their grand scheme was to build a maze with slime-monsters to combat a disease. Honestly, Dashner keeps trying to make WICKED a thing but it just doesn't work for me. I'm absolutely torn as to whether I disliked the lazy writing or the shoe-horned romance more.Īnyone else notice that every twist and turn plays perfectly into WICKED's Evil Grand Plan.īut don't worry, whenever things become absolutely hopeless.there's convenient reemergence of essential memories so that they can continue along WICKED's path.Īnytime something inexplicable happens (which happens a lot), Dashner throws out the either the memory-wipe or the all-knowing-government excuse. Whiplash.Įssentially, we have a few hundred pages of running, panicking, poor decision making and filler. What the mess is happening to this plot? Instead of a giant maze, we are faced with the zombie apocalypse and a desert. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. “Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?” Thomas's innermost thoughts have this je ne sais quoi. The lyrical genius of Dashner brings out such heart-wrenching emotions that I often have to pause to collect myself. If someone figures it out, please tell me.ĮDIT: P.S I think I get that Frypan is a nickname now thanks. He's also about as smart as that which I don't understand since all the Gladers were suppose to be extremely smart children who where put in the maze from the last book because of their high IQs.Īpart from the few inconsistencies in this book, the one thing that never made any sense to me was that if everyone in there is suppose to be named after super smart person (like Isaac Newton, etc), then who is Frypan named after? This compared to other characters like Thomas who had about as much personality and emotion as a burnt piece of rat meat on a stick. This is mostly referring to Newt and Minho since they seemed the most real and fleshed out. I gave this book 2 stars only because James Dashner was able to create such real characters by giving them actual human qualities. Then try to tell me you didn't notice it.Īlthough this book was fast passed, a lot of it was filler and this book could really just have been shrunken into about 100 pages at the max. If this didn't annoy you at all, reread this book (NOT RECOMMENDED) and realize that this dude spent most of his life passed out. During this entire book, I counted how many times Thomas ended up passing out or sleeping either at the end of a chapter or paragraph and did you want to know what the finally count was?Ģ9 times this guy blacked out!! Out of 360 pages, Thomas left you with the cliff hanger of "and finally he slept" 29 times.
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