I've struggled with this entire series. For the most part I like the book and the previous books and had no problem getting through them. But there have been several things that have bothered me about them too. The Death Cure was no different and I knew that going in to it. Mainly, I have a problem when too many things are conveniently explained and when other things are never explained or explained poorly. These things have been constant throughout the entire series. I'll be honest, I never really ended up hating WICKED as much as I think Dashner wanted me to. It was never really fully explained why they were so bad. The explanation for everything seemed to be that they 'lied.' I get that Thomas was just a kid when he started working with WICKED, but was he forced to? It seemed that he was recruited for the greater good and so he agreed to go through the trials to help find a cure, but now that's a bad thing? I don't get it. Am I missing something? I kind of think this calls for a discussion. If you were asked to basically be a research subject in order to save the human race and find a cure and no one else could do it quite as well as you could, would you agree to it? I guess, toward the end of the series I was just sick of the whining and complaining and poor explanations for everything. I was never fully convinced of anything in these books.