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The Maze Runner by James Dashner
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it was amazing

** spoiler alert ** Maze Runner

I decided to read this book because I had watched the movie and once seeing it was based on a best selling novel I urged to read it as I loved the movie.


This book was extremely good, and I strongly recommend reading this book if you have only seen the movie. The book stores lots of moments that aren't shown in the movie. This book a teenage boy Thomas waking up in a large elevator in the surrounded by a group of teens that have been sent into a place in the centre of mazes 1 by 1 with no memory of their life outside the maze or even of their names. They are placed in a square piece of land with 4 giant cement walls on each side. Each wall has a huge door and 1 opens every day to let the people chosen by the leader (Gally, the first person placed in the maze) called the maze runners roam the maze searching for an exit. However, it's not as easy as that as the doors close just before dark leaving you with a deadly mechanical animal which is programmed to kill called a Greiver.


A character I liked from this book was Minho as he is so brave and willing and would happily risk his life for his friends. An example of this is when Minho (a maze runner) was caught in the maze for the night after his partner was badly injured so he insisted on dragging him back to camp. The rules of camp are for no one that isn't a maze runner can never enter the maze which Thomas (main character) breaks when he runs into the maze narrowly missing getting squashed by the door. Thomas and Minho proceed to survive the night with the injured guy aswell.


I learnt in this book that to succeed you have to take chances and can't keep running with the same rules if they aren't working.


A quote from the book I found interesting was "No one has ever survived a night in the maze" which is interesting because Thomas, the newest member of society was able to survive a night in the maze soon after arrival showing how brave and physically and mentally capable he was.

By Josh
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October 17, 2015 – Shelved as: to-read
October 17, 2015 – Shelved
October 17, 2015 – Shelved as: to-read

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