The Maze Runner Trilogy

The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure

By James Dashner

1.5/5

I began reading this series with high expectations (having been naughty and seen the film before reading the book and loving it) but I was quite disappointed. The plot really didn’t excite me and the third person narrative failed to engage me with the characters. Thankfully, all three novels contain very short chapters which led to me reading a chapter, having a quick peak to see how many pages the next chapter was, and then reading on due to only having to read a few pages at a time. If the novels contained quite weighty chapters, I fear I would have given up with the series shortly after starting The Maze Runner. That being said, they weren’t the worst books I’ve ever read and I would definitely recommend this series over The Hunger Games (I hold the unpopular opinion of finding these books predictable and rather boring). They held a few small plot twists that I wasn’t expecting but not enough to encourage me to read the prequel, The Kill Order. Overall, I found this series to be quite an easy read, with enough suspense to keep me reading on but I won’t be in a rush to re-read them.