The Scorch Trials - James Dashner

The sequel to The Maze Runner was almost as good as it's predecessor but to me it lacked a certain amount of suspense and action that the first book captured perfectly. Perhaps it was because after the Maze Runner the reader expected that anything that could go wrong probably would go wrong. However even though the Cranks were slightly frightening and the scene at the very start of the book in the common room illicit some pretty disturbing images, the rest of the book was just missing a certain off key element that was in the original.

The book is divided into three parts of the adventure, 1 the common room and tunnel, 2 the scorch and the town, and 3 the mountains and safe zone. While the first two parts were described in detail and had most of the action occur there, to me it felt like the end was rushed. I remember thinking as I was reading it that there were not many pages left and according to what the characters said in the book there was still a long distance to go. It felt rushed and condensed so that the book would not be too long or so that a big portion of the book didn't need to be described. That let it down for me.

It had been a while since I read the original book so some of the characters were a little unfamiliar at first to me, but after a small chunk of the book all was good again and the new characters introduced in this book are interesting and I look forward to reading more about them I the future books. Now on to The Death Cure and then Kill Zone. The Maze Runner has been made into a movie and will be out later this year. I'll definitely be in line for that one.