Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Book Review | The Maze Runner by James Dashner


The Maze Runner is a YA dystopian novel by James Dashner. It is also the first book in the Maze Runner series.

If you ain’t scared, you ain’t human.

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.

Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.

Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.

Everything is going to change.

Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And the message she delivers is terrifying.

Remember. Survive. Run.

Take this review with a grain of salt.

I tried to read The Maze Runner back in January with no luck. I couldn't get into it at all, and I decided it wasn't for me.

This past month, however, my hubs wanted to watch the movie. I have strict rules against watching a movie before I read the book, but since I had no intentions of reading the book, I thought what the hey. It's not often hubs is requesting one of "my" movies so I went with it.

Here's the kicker - I really liked the movie. So much so that I wanted to read the book.

The book was much easier for me to get into this time around because it was more like a reread. I was also listening to it on audio with a good narrator so it was altogether a nice read for me.

I can't say what my original rating would have been if I had forced my way through it, but I do know my interest in this series is high right now. I just need to decide if I'm going to read The Scorch Trials now or stick with watching the movies.

6/10: Good Read

Have you read The Maze Runner? What about the movie - have you seen it? I'm really looking forward to The Scorch Trials. I'm leaning more toward doing the movie again, though.

Jennifer

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4 comments:

  1. I've only read the first book in this series and I thought the movie was much better. To be honest I think I'll just watch the movies to finish the series.

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    1. I'm thinking the same. I will probably just finish up with the movies.

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  2. When I first read this I was not impressed. I kept thinking how much better this storyline could have been had it been thought out just a bit more. I didn't think the writing was great. There were too many unexplained things and their "language" was super annoying to me. I really liked the movie and it made me see the books differently and feel a bit better about them. But when I first heard they were making a movie of it I was really wondering who thought that was a good idea.

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    1. Haha. That's funny. I'm glad I went ahead and watched the movie.

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