Showing posts with label James Dashner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Dashner. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Waiting on Wednesday (3)

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine, where we share the books we are looking forward to coming out!


The Death Cure by James Dashner

The Death Cure is to be the third installment in the Maze Runner trilogy! I'm pretty damn excited for this to be released as I LOVED The Scorch Trails. 

Unfortunately there is no cover or synopsis out yet, but I will definitely make a post about it when it does!

Monday, 31 January 2011

Revisiting The Maze Runner

So as I finished my book today and have nothing new to read until tomorrow (when I'm going to get a book called Inside Out on my lunch break), I picked a random book from my shelf to read tonight. And therefore, I thought I'd talk a bit about it before I get started.
       This book is called The Maze Runner by James Dashner, I read it back in September. It's about a boy with no memories of his previous life, only his name -Thomas- waking up and finding himself in a lift that brings him up to a place called The Glade. Here there are about 30-something other boys, who all arrived in the same way once a month with nothing but a name. They live there, sorting out jobs and searching the maze (that the Glade is centred in) for answers to their strange situation. I enjoyed this book, it was a bit slow paced at times, but the concept, the action and the characters urged me on.
        Just after Christmas, I read the second book to the (soon to be) trilogy called The Scorch Trails. It's obvious when reading The Scorch Trails, that the first book hadn't intended to be a trilogy at first, as it's concept isn't as organised as the The Maze Runner. BUT, with all this said, I actually loved The Scorch Trails more than the The Maze Runner. It kept you asking questions, it had an exciting pace, was quite scary at times and I liked feeling as though I was with the characters as they went on this journey. I just absolutely can't wait until the third book, The Death Cure, comes out in October. I need to find out what happens!