The Maze Runner

Reviewed by: David

Written by: James Dashner

375 pages

  The Maze Runner is a story about a kid names Thomas. He wakes up in an elevator and he can’t remember anything about his past. The elevator is going up and it reaches the top and at the top he is in a giant a stadium type thing. There are other boys there and none of the other boys remember anything either. The place they are at is surrounded but huge walls. Beyond the walls is a very dangerous maze. The maze opens in the morning and closes at night. None of them know why they are there or what is going on. After a few weeks Thomas wants to know why so he talks to some of the guys and tells them he wants to figure the maze out. They think he is crazy and don’t want to go with him. Then they all decide to go and they make it through the maze only to find out that a group called Wicked is behind all this and they don’t know if they are good or bad but Wicked tells them that there was an apocalyptic event called “The Flare” that wiped out half of the world’s population. Wicked now is taking them to a safe haven where it ends and starts the second book.            This book would be a good book for many different type of readers! People who like reading Sci-Fi type of books or fiction would love this book! This book isn’t real and wouldn’t happen because of all the creatures in it so that’s why sci-fi book readers or fiction book readers would like it. If you liked to read non-fiction books and true stories you wouldn’t enjoy this book because it isn’t based off a true story and couldn’t happen in real life.