The Maze Runner Trilogy

Hullo!

I'm in a really hyper mood today so decided to wash the car. I literally washed and hovered the car just for the sake of it. You know when you just have so much energy and you just have to do something? That was me.

Now that I've washed the car and have done something productive, I'm going to play Sims 4 because there's only so much I can do in a day and washing the car is my limit.

So, I've recently finished the Maze Runner and I'm currently reading the prequel. I thought that I could talk about the trilogy because I can. So I'm going to.

(This really annoys me because it isn't my picture. In the last review it was my picture.)

SPOILERS!! Don't read the paragraph that starts 'Book three...' if you don't want to know about some major spoilers. The rest has a few tiny wee things that don't really count and don't give a lot away but if you don't want to know then don't read on.

I loved the Maze Runner. I really did. I loved how the reader is just thrown into the confusion and is as clueless as the character. But, it is the only series where I prefer the movie. I'm going to focus on the book though because I don't want to ramble on for an age and a day.

Don't get me wrong! The books are amazing. But I just prefer the way things happen in the movie. Not to mention the movie has both Dylan O'Brian and Thomas Brodie Sangster, but we'll gloss over that just now.

The first book is my favourite. Like I said: I love how you have no idea what's going on. Thomas is a great character. He's not annoying or stupid like I feel some main characters can be. He gets stuff done. I love how Dashner made it so Thomas doesn't take charge and lead everyone into battle. Thomas steps back and lets the other characters and leaders deal with it after Thomas has had his say. Of course, I love Newt and Minho grew on me.

The only thing I didn't like about it was that I couldn't picture the Grievers. Everyone is different. People imagine things differently and everyone will see the Grievers differently but I, personally, couldn't see them. That didn't stop the book from being enjoyable though.

The second book was okay. Not as good as the first or third... A typical middle book really. I like how Thomas didn't really know what was going on with Teresa. I loved the jumps between her being good or bad and trustworthy or the enemy. I was so glad that Thomas got fed up of her when I got fed up of her because I preferred Brenda.

Book three... I barely want to think about book three. (My poor Newt!) I feel like it was very good at rounding off the story and answering any questions that had been built up over the course of the books. I loved the ending and loved how Thomas and Minho fought together through all of it and made it to the end together (though there should have been another one there but I know things have to be done and characters have to be lost for it to be realistic) and Jorge and Brenda were there too.

Overall, I really liked the trilogy and think it was very well written and suspenseful and... a bunch of other words used to describe great books. Reading back over this I realise I haven't talked about the plot a lot but I think that's okay. I'm writing this to encourage other people to read it not give away everything that happens. Though I did give away the ending a little bit... I'll put 'spoilers' at the top in big letters.

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