Kadomi reviewed The maze runner by James Dashner
Review of 'The Maze Runner' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
In this story, we begin with Thomas, a 16-year old boy, riding up an elevator to a place he doesn't know. He remembers very little to nothing of his previous life. When he arrives at his destination, it turns out that he's in an area called The Glade, inhabited by more teenage boys like him. Outside the walls of the glade is what is called The Maze. Everyone in the Glade has a job, and the most important one is that of the Runner, boys who map the dangerous maze outside in order to solve it, so that the boys can go back to their old life. The stakes of this game rise dramatically when just a couple days after Thomas' arrival a girl shows up in the elevator, proclaiming that the end has begun.
This book is written very well, and has an interesting cast of characters. I was …
In this story, we begin with Thomas, a 16-year old boy, riding up an elevator to a place he doesn't know. He remembers very little to nothing of his previous life. When he arrives at his destination, it turns out that he's in an area called The Glade, inhabited by more teenage boys like him. Outside the walls of the glade is what is called The Maze. Everyone in the Glade has a job, and the most important one is that of the Runner, boys who map the dangerous maze outside in order to solve it, so that the boys can go back to their old life. The stakes of this game rise dramatically when just a couple days after Thomas' arrival a girl shows up in the elevator, proclaiming that the end has begun.
This book is written very well, and has an interesting cast of characters. I was a bit put off by the weird Glade dialect but I was definitely entertained throughout. The ending gave a hint of the dystopian world out there that gave birth to the Glade as experiment, and I thought that was fascinating. If you enjoy decent YA dystopia, you might enjoy this book as much as I did.
