The Scorch Trials
Ratings459
Average rating3.6
This series is very reminiscent of the Chaos Walking trilogy. The Earth is a total hellhole, and the poor heroes keep getting kicked while they're down. Despite this, maybe even partially because of this, the book is very hard to put down.
Pros: lots of tension, great pacing
Cons: while I still didn't connect with any of the boys, I didn't find them as annoying as I did in the first book
Picking up directly where The Maze Runner left off, The Scorch Trials doesn't let the Gladers relax much before the next round of horrors begins.
While you find out a bit more of the mystery surrounding the boys - including the fact that there was a similar experiment for girls - a lot of mysteries remain at the end of the book.
Look forward to a wild ride of one bad thing followed by another.
This book is definitely better than the first one. All of my complaints for it were dealt with/not applicable here. The pacing is good, there's some downtime to appreciate the situation the boys are in but not enough to feel bored. There's little character development, but the book takes place over two weeks so that's to be expected. And what development there is, follows logically from the events of the story.
While I felt teens would enjoy the first book better than adults, the sequel is a fantastic book for readers of all ages.
Can't wait for the third, when I hope to learn what's really going on with WICKED.
I actually liked this second book better than the Maze Runner. I'm hoping the big reveal that will end the series will be worth the reader's investment.
More terrifying games for the Gladers. Now they're out of the Maze, but the tests and trials haven't stopped. Around every turn something awful happens to the kids and Thomas doesn't know who he's supposed to trust.
It's just one bad thing after the other and at the end of it all it only feels like we have a very small fraction of the story. I'm hoping this is only a trilogy because I don't think I can take anymore!
I'm definitely jumping on the young adult dystopia novel bandwagon. I found this book as hard to put down as [b:The Maze Runner 6186357 The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, #1) James Dashner http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nsLLtEfdL.SL75.jpg 6366642], the first in the series. I did not like the setting as much and the new characters made my blood boil (I don't even know why I hate them, I think I'm supposed to like them) but I still found it impossible to stay away from this book for too long. It was extremely suspenseful and even terrifying at times. It's going to be a long wait for The Death Cure which doesn't come out until October!
