I've had an ebook of The Maze Runner for well over two years now and for some reason I just never felt the need to read it. I had seen the film before reading this but couldn't remember a single thing about it, needless to say that I will watch it again now that I've read the book.

This is your classic young adult dystopian and I think I arrived to this series a little too late to really be captured by it. Don't get me wrong, I did enjoy this book. I thought it was a well crafted story and a unique idea. It just doesn't seem to have the exciting and addictive thrill to it that I had when I first read series such as The Hunger Games or Divergent. Granted, I read those a few years back and I definitely think that my feelings towards The Maze Runner are strongly linked to missing my peak time for reading this.

I really liked the world that Dashner has created here. There is no doubt that this is a well thought out novel with plenty to keep the reader guessing and moving swiftly through the story. The short chapters were really useful in creating more of a rhythm whilst reading this and I often found myself thinking 'just one more'. I really, really liked the fact that Dashner created his own dialect for the Gladers. It struck me as odd and disjointed when I first started reading the book, however, similar to Thomas, it did not take long for me to catch on and soon I was reading the dialect as if I used it myself. I thought this was a clever way of engaging us as readers to Thomas' new surroundings. We're just as new to this as he is.

I thought there was an interesting array of characters. I did like Thomas, although he seemed a little too perfect at times. I was really interested in Teresa's character (a female, finally!) and I'm looking forward to learning more about her and Thomas' connection as there is definitely a lot more to them. I liked how it turned out that the boys' names linked with different scientists, another clever element. Chuck was probably my favourite character. I just thought he was completely adorable and I loved his loyalty to Thomas.

There is certainly plenty to like about this series, I just wanted something more exciting. It has definitely given me enough of a flavour to continue with this series at some point and I'll definitely be watching the film again to see if I actually understand it this time!