I’ve read a lot of books before, but not this best-selling trilogy!!

 

Thomas was thrown into a place, whose memories have all been deleted by a group called WICKED. A lot of people with no memories about their pasts have been living there for a while. They lived in a maze that was basically impossible to be deciphered, a place where the Grievers stayed, and those who were stung would go through “The Changing.” A woman called Teresa was sent here one day after Thomas’s transfer, but she was unconscious. During this time, Thomas went into the maze at night in an attempt to save Alby, the first Glader, and Minho, the runner. Instead of being killed by the Grievers, he killed them. Several disputes have occurred among the leaders regarding Thomas, but they decided to let him be the leader of Runner. He and Minho discovered some facts about the Grievers. And then Teresa was awake….

Thomas found out that he and Teresa are telepathic, and a lot of strange things happened after Teresa’s regaining consciousness. The Grievers took one Glader per day, and Teresa kept telling him about that the maze was just a code. As time passed, they have found out more and more things about the maze- the code of shutting the maze has been discovered, and all they needed was to go to the hole of Grievers to have a final battle. According to what Thomas has discovered, the place for entering the code was in a small hole of a huge sky. Thomas, Teresa, and Chuck, Thomas’s best friend in the Glade, ran together to that final destination. They did and killed the maze; however with heavy casualties.

They walked to the center of WICKED, a scientific organisation that explored the brain interaction during intense activities, which would include sacrifice. WICKED told them a tiny part of everything, that they were here to find a cure of Flare, a widespread disease that killed almost everyone on the planet. WICKED manipulated Gally, a person Thomas hated the most due to his opposition toward him, to throw a knife at him, but Chuck sacrificed for him instead…….

All the survivors went to another place for a new trial…

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I think that The Maze Runner is the best one in this trilogy due to its unique writing style and creative idea with various combinations of topics. The author has perfectly used a fantasy, the maze, to support or build upon a reality, the Flare. Certainly there are a lot of interesting facts that are used in The Maze Runner, such as Thomas and Teresa’s telepathy, Gally’s opposition, Thomas’s  friendship with Chuck, Newt supporting Thomas, Alby’s sacrifice due to his fear of the flare, Minho’s use of Glader words, the Grievers, and more importantly, the conspiracy, probably, behind WICKED.

The book is really surprising at the end- the fact that the maze was built for a scientific experimentation for a cure of the Flare, and everything has been expected by WICKED’s scientists. It is unbelievable  that the author is able to write a book with such complexity, but remains coherent and interesting. In addition, I could make deduction of the maze as those characters explored more clue. Thus, it is actually interesting from the beginning; the twisting ending is a huge bonus.

However, the repetition of certain words irritated me, such as “contemplative,” “breathe,” and “serum.” I really hope that the author could use a variety of vocabularies so that the book itself will not be dull speaking of literature. Another advice is that characters should have more personalities because that helps readers remember the properties of each character, so it will not be abrupt when somebody does something.

Overall, The Maze Runner is a good book, but “The Scorch Trials” and “The Death Cure” are not as good as I thought!