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The Maze Runner by James Dashner
3.0

hmmmm.....where to start?
First of this book is good...it has a really intriguing plot and it has a lot of potential. I did enjoy it, I finished it within two days, and I was eager to find out what happened and I'm looking forward to reading The Scorch Trials.

But some things about the book fell short for me. The Grievers for instance,I had a really hard time imagining what they looked like exactly, basically are they ginormous slugs with spikes or something more like The Blob? Basically, they are a big pile of goo?

And the Maze and the Glade, I don't know everything was just that little bit hard to imagine at first. I'm pretty sure what I saw in my head was wrong but that's the beauty of imagination I suppose.

And when Thomas finally remembers stuff about what happened...nothing makes sense to me. Why do'the creators' think the surviving boys are going to find a cure? Like what's the point in putting them through all this shit to find a cure when they don't know whether there is one. I think the plot just gets messy there in that it makes no sense why these boys have to do all of these variables...if there is a cure at the end of it, why don't the creators just go get in themselves or are they sending the boys to the Andes to do that and why not just send the best to there instead of waiting two years and doing it...

Sigh...I just don't know...my head is so confused.