*I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*

For fans of The Hunger Games and Game of Thrones? Right.

DNF this at about the 30% mark. The writing didn't capture my attention, the characters were bland, the world we were in was vague and, quite honestly, uninteresting. It was an effort to pick this up and force myself to read this. This was definitely not for me.

NO STARS FOR YOU. NONE. NO. BAD BOOK. BAD.


I legitimately had to force myself to get up to page 100-something before I completely noped out. WHAT WAS THIS BOOK and WHY DID MY DAD BUY IT FOR ME?

I couldn't even stick around long enough

see the girl wake up

. Really, you'd think that a book this hyped up would get at least a little bit interesting by the halfway point, but nooooooo, not this one. When I finally gave up on this last night, all I had to show for suffering through Thomas's whiny narrative was a huge stack of questions I'd collected since the first page and NOT ONE OF THEM HAD BEEN ANSWERED.

I tried to let my fondness for the movie cast fuel me, I really did. But I when I reached the point where

Thomas was stuck in the maze, surrounded grievers

and I was unable to feel anything besides profoundly bored, I knew that it was hopeless.

It's hard to enjoy a book when you simply can't tolerate the MC's bullshit. Literally all holier-than-thou, special little snowflake Thomas did was complain and whine and mope and gripe. GOD. I do think that maybe this would be better as a movie because a) None of Thomas's inner monologue. Yay. and b)I think the concept of the maze would translate well onto film. Idk though. This book just didn't do it for me.

I might pick it up again when I'm feeling more tolerant, but for now it's adios.

Read the full review here: http://sowereadthisbook.wordpress.com/2014/07/31/the-maze-runner-a-review/