I really enjoyed this book!! The other books had taken place in a horrific world already devestated by sun flares and "the flare". This book went back 13 years, just a year after the sun flares charred the Earth and in the midst of "the flare" disease. There were also plenty of flashbacks, giving a lot of description to what had happened when the sun flares were hitting the planet as well. Seriously, thank you James Dashner for telling this story! It was as disturbing, if not more than I had thought it would be. So naturally I loved every minute of it!