The Scorch Trials

These are the only books my 11 year old will read. He hates reading but these keep him reading past the timer!

Bello e intrigante

The Gladers have escaped the Maze. But they don't know what lays ahead of them. If the first part left you as confused as Thomas this is going to drop you in the same boat AGAIN. The Gladers get an awful disease-The Flare. If you ask "why?" you need to know that the WICKED never give answers. Now they must travel through the Scorch to get the cure, battling mad Cranks(people affected by Flare) while at the same time battle with Group B. "what's Group B?" stop asking questions and survive, anyhow.Dashner is true to his word and takes you on wild ride again. Minho's gonna make you laugh in your heads with his saintly sarcasm in the most awful fixes.Dashner again leaves you wanting for more.PS I'd rather not reveal much....no spoilers!!

Heart-stopping. Breathtaking. Full blown, kick ass action.When I first read The Maze Runner, which is the first book in the Maze Runner series, I was actually taken away by how amazing it was, and The Scorch Trials is the almost perfect sequel. Unfortunately, this does mean I have terribly high expectations for the last book, The Death Cure and the prequel, The Kill Order. But if Dashner keeps his writing quality up and the endless action, mystery and suspense as superbly as he did in his past two books, then there will be no problem.Characters we saw in the last book like Thomas, Teresa, Minho and Newt develop brilliantly well. I came out of this novel feeling like I knew Minho much better compared to the last book, where his presence was mostly fleeting. We saw a lot of his quick anger and hot headedness, but in this book, we get to see his love and compassion for his fellow Glader buddies, and it really sets a nice tone of how three dimensional these characters actually are.In addition to these, we meet so many new characters that are still so well developed (not including Jorge, who, sorry Dashner, but I felt like his personality changed a lot, however saying that, he wasn’t exactly a huge, huge character). Lots of the new characters are loveable and hateable - I was switching my opinion on everybody in the novel (new and old) so much just because of MAJOR PLOT TWISTS! And I mean major. I was on tenterhooks at the end of each short chapter - this book is not for the lighthearted!It was so amazing to learn more and more about the world Dashner has created, seeing these new people infected with the deadly disease we only hear a glimpse of at the end of The Maze Runner, called the Flare. We get to see more of the outside world and because we didn’t see any of that in the first book, it sure makes a very interesting read because it feels so new despite being the same world and same characters.I absolutely devoured this book, and although slightly a little disheartened by the ending (I’m a little hard to please with endings, so don’t get me started on the ending of Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins). I only say this because I felt it may have been a little repetitive, but I don’t want to spoil it for you guys if you haven’t read it yet. If you have, please feel free to chat to me about it! I’m absolutely foaming at the mouth for more, more, more of this series and I’ll be onto the next book in no time at all.

Very exciting, sometimes a bit violent and frightening. More romantic than the maze runner. Interesting from a "gender studies" point of view.