In a world where there is a massive labyrinth built in order to protect an isolated desert town one girl is about to wander into it in order to rescue her friend. This town is separated by “Blanks” and “Skilled”, blanks being people with no powers and skilled being people with abilities. If you are a blank you are viewed as lower class and essentially hated and mistreated by the other skilled. Zadie is a blank and has had to work as an indentured servant since the age of 6 in order to buy a pass to live in the town. Growing up her best friend is Landon, a skilled, popular, and beautiful boy loved by the town and known as the town’s hero. The labyrinth is known to be filled with monsters and a particularly skilled and feared boy known as the Devil of the town, also named Dex, is someone who has vast amounts of power but lives in the labyrinth. He is feared and dangerous and is known for trying to kidnap blanks into the labyrinth. However after Landon goes missing Zadie makes it her mission to enter into the labyrinth and she needs Dex to help guide her through it as he is the only one who knows it. Soon she uncovers secrets and finds that maybe the boy known as the devil isn’t as evil as he seems and maybe her best friend isn’t as heroic as he appears. This story started off pretty slow for me and maintained a slow pace and ends with a bit of a big open ending. It definitely leaves a LOT of room for more and seems as if there would be a sequel to the story. It kinda just ends at a cliffhanger. I couldn’t find myself caring for much of the characters and tried really hard to connect to Zadie. I did like Dex and felt sympathetic to what he had to go through and what he has to do in order to try and save his sister. In fact, I was more invested in Dex than any of the other characters. The whole Landon thing was meh at best for me. While this didn’t work for me, maybe it’ll work for someone else.