Nama [Naya] Masoud's Reviews > The Maze Runner

Ok so I am totally screwed good-readers.

Totally !

I am one hundred and ten percent fully saturated with a poisoned crap that had a very sweet amusing taste that gave me the feeling that I am actually a one hell of a SHUCK-FACE individual who has a paradoxical personality, almost turning into schizophrenia, -i dont know if i make sense here- anyway, this is what i really felt Alright? Positive charges and Negative charges were both boosting me up during the last 10 chapters. I was actually begging to the LORD who is upstairs to make this book reach the ultra awesomeness it deserves. The whole actual fan-base it deserves. To make it clear, I wanted to completely fall in Love with this shit, because I LIKE IT and LIKE here is without an "ed", I still like it. But this is who i am, I won't be forcing myself to be this book's date. You SHANKS, I was completely up in arms with THE MAZE RUNNER.


Away from the dramatic psychotic emotions of mine and So you shanks wont judge my mental health, allow me to bring my crush on THE MAZE RUNNER into focus,


I was totally hooked with the first chapters. It obviously sounded confusing and mind twisting to Thomas himself (the main character) and to the readers, but I did not feel it in a messy or misplaced kind of way. It was perfectly narrated and the plot was full of excitement and makes you literally die of curiosity, LITERALLY ! It, without any doubt, gave me goosebumps at the end of each chapter where, most of the time, every breath-taking event reveals. It is like the place where the story took place is a whole empire the "Gladers" actually built, their different sections, the most suitable tasks for them, their keepers, their homestead, even their own freakin SHUCK language, and..... their Runners. Then, there is the maze. I might be over-analysing, but their freedom has taken away, they are prisoners. Prisoners of a deadly game.


The maze itself is what grabbed my attention in the first place. It gave me the feeling of "mystery-solving" kind of thing when I first picked up the book.
It actually was, and to just add fuel to the fire, the walls of the maze where actually moving every night. So then the maps were introduced and how they were forming words all this time, finally leading into a code. There had to be an exit. An exit from their miserable unstable life, as they claimed. But is it really that miserable comparing of what is actually outside?

Reaching the hot spot, the ones who are carrying the story, the characters:

I publicly announce and confess that I am head over heels in love with my boys, with my kids. I am feeling the motherly love here and do not judge me if a mother wants to marry all her children. Mother Love is limitless, endless, irreplaceable and it is a true love, alright shuck faces? I am fancying the characters, the gladers, the runners and the keepers. Loved them, loved their scenarios and their scripts. Each one had his own personality, own way of thinking towards things and I absolutely enjoyed these VARIABILITIES. The diversity. I am so going to (xoxoxoxo) my cousin for introducing me to this ishhh cuz am so gonna fangirl about those boys, at least not alone ---Minho and Newt are my two most cherished apple pies so if anyone lays a finger on them consider himself/herself dead---




I am Serious.




Moving swiftly on,

CAUTION, THE FOLLOWING CRITICISMS MIGHT CAUSE MAJOR HEADACHE TO ME, IN PARTICULAR. Of course, you do not care

I was extremely disappointed with the last chapters, completely frustrated. It defiantly dashed my hopes and this really hurts because as you can see i have a LOVE-HATE relationship with THE MAZE RUNNER. I was constantly doubting myself if i understood Thomas or not. Sorry Thomas, No ! I wished you were a badass character. You are too nice and this kills me because I CAN NOT hate you. Your personality completely screwed up when that girl shuck face called Teresa showed up. Okey I get it, you both feel you have strong bonds towards each others but for a second, what about the others? Their sudden romance made me burst out laughing. No doubt, Thomas always cared about his fellowships but there were those 10 chapters which I am completely sure that they were either cursed or the Author was too hungry to concentrate on the plot. In Those chapters, my love towards Thomas decreased and those are the chapters which proved me that Teresa's presence in the story was almost unnecessary..or just additional. Although, I must say that the ''WICKED is good'' part was interesting. I take my hat off in that. Made me wonder if the bad organisation ''WICKED'' is actually good.

There are so many scenes in the last part that I so want to criticise but i just don't want to just run into the blue and spoil it so here you go, (view spoiler)[The moment when the Gladers decided to go to the Griever's hole with Thomas and the others, we know that half of the gladers dropped dead, all Thomas could do is just thinking about Teresa, although he fully know that both of them were part of this deadly game, of course, i do not have the right to blame them, but I am expecting a bit of humility from Thomas and Teresa. Their personality just pissed me off and I know that Thomas did what he could do, I fully know that he suffered the most, consciousnessly and emotionally. Not anyone can bear the pain of guilt. Teresa, on the other hand, she only had to insert the bloody code words to the computer but seems like she truly forgot to pay her brain bill. It was obvious that PUSH is PUSH. Without Chuck, they would probably all be doomed. I firmly greet Thomas for the heroic decision of asking Chuck to come with him (hide spoiler)]


Thats why I suddenly had the urge to read the prequel above everything else, the prequel of the maze runner, just wanted to give Thomas and Teresa a second chance of understanding them better. And hell ya, I am so up for it. I am bloody hell interested.

However, (view spoiler)[The whole idea of putting the boys into some sort of experiment to test and monitor their abilities and to "filter the smart-asses from the ones who gave up so easily" (hide spoiler)] was so familiar to me and I unconditionally had deja vu, not mentioning how did they come up with their names. ((Still trying to figure out which scientist or personality Minho stood for though)). My hopes were rising slightly when i knew about the (view spoiler)[sickness, the Flare, and the reason why they are actually in the maze and why the smart ones are needed? (hide spoiler)] Yet, It wasn't actually a great twist for an amazing plot, if it meant to be a twist. I felt that a twist failed to be a twist on me. It was plain and I had no emotions. I felt bad, because I wanted to have a much deeper reason, a much much deeper reason. I wanted a very strong motives behind all of this. Something totally new and bizarre. But I think I am too greedy, I can't ask for more.



There are so many things that drove me crazy in the last chapters and I was biting and nearly chewing my nails while reading them. (view spoiler)[Chuck death scene was heart breaking but the author couldn't deliver it perfectly, Thomas could not do anything, he beat the shit out of Gally and actually ignoed the ones who were responsible for all their suffering, responsible for the death of the other gladers? (hide spoiler)] If i were Thomas, I would probably do what he did but I will also beat that woman from WICKED so bad, with her fellas, they'll have to scrape her and them off the ground with a butter knife and when i'm through with them they are gonna be so messed up that when they cross the street they can look both ways at once. Beat that !


I believe that the plot was not really deep enough in most of the time. Maybe if it was deep, it would have been more confusing. I do not actually think that the story was slow-paced nor it was too fast-paced and I believe that the scenes and the writing style were not actually too descriptive. Which all can be positive aspects.

This was just my personal preference, but to tell the truth, I am so excited to read the sequels and to finish this whole trilogy of THE MAZE RUNNER. I feel that flames set my heart on fire and they need to be extinguished. Permanently.


I might also add-on and edit this review depending on my laziness and my sudden reevaluating of the plot. At the mean time, I am dead tired and I am defiantly going to sleep like a log.

A question just popped into my head before bed time, (view spoiler)[What will happen to those gladers who stayed in the Maze and refused to go to the GRIEVER'S hole along with their shanks? (hide spoiler)]

BRAIN SHUTS DOWN