Maze Runner

Reviewed by: Brooklynn Campbell
Delacorte Press
By James Dashner
374 pages

The Maze Runner is about a teenage boy who wakes up in an elevator with no memory of his past, or who he even is. All he could remember was his name, Thomas. When he gets out of the elevator, he walks into a glade of strangers and other teenage boys with no memory either. Thomas later discovers that the Glade is run by two boys, named Alby and Newt, who maintain order by enforcing strict rules and keeping all of the boys busy harvesting food. This is important because outside the Glade is the Maze, is horrifying and is covered with huge walls. The creatures are known as Grievers.

The boys are stuck trying to stay alive as well as "solving" the Maze by running through it as fast as they can while tracking movements of the walls and trying to find an exit. No one has survived yet, and they hope they can be the first ones to solve it. I recommend this book to anyone, it was my first time reading it and I enjoyed it a lot. I watched the movie but the book was still better, in my opinion.