By James Dashner
The Glade is home base in the centre of the maze. There Thomas awakes to a crowd of boys he does not know. They have a whole community, working together, trying to figure out why they are in the middle of a maze and looking for the escape. Who put them there? How can they figure out the maze when it changes every day?
I'm jumping on the bandwagon, wanting to know why this book is so beloved that it would be made into a movie.
A fast read, each chapter was short and almost always ending with a cliff hanger to keep you reading to the next chapter. The premise was very cool. I think if I hadn't heard such disappointing things about the next two books, I would read on.
I didn't particularly like the main character, Thomas, but he was written as a very flawed character. Sometimes in Dystopian books, the protagonist is saint-like because they are "the chosen one" - the one who will save the whole world from distraction (think "The Hunger Games"). He was intelligent, but his anger bubbled to the surface more often than not.
Certainly I liked it, but it won't stick with me as one of my favourites.
3.5/5 STARS
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