Rating: 3/3.5
There were quite a few issues that I had with this book. One, being the lack of authenticity the characters in the book had; if you wound up with a serious case of amnesia in a weird, prison, alien-like place surely you wouldn’t be so ready to accept everything without getting some decent answers. Some of the things that Thomas said were totally out of character and this was during the beginning of the book as well, when the readers are trying to get to know him first. Thomas’s character defaults nearly put me off the entire book.
However, the premise/plot was just so fascinating I continued with it…to the very end! I’m certainly glad I stuck with this decision because I ended up liking this book a great deal. I may not have loved it but I did like it!
The book was well written, still I was irritated by how slowly the story went; I think I was a third into the book when the book finally began to pick up but when it did, it really went for it. If only it was like that from the start…
The secondary characters in ‘The Maze Runner’ were a delight though, I really enjoyed their presence and I have to say they really made the book for me – all of them seemed like well-developed characters with a sense of purpose.
On a final note, I would like to add that the ending of this book was going great until a certain incident occurred during the last few pages that seemed incredibly implausible.
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