Thursday, January 19, 2012

Book 2: The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

This is the second book in a YA trilogy. I read the first book in 2011, so I'm not counting it here, but I'll kind of give a summary anyway...

This book takes place after a natural disaster, but our main characters don't know that...yet. All Thomas knows is that he woke up in an elevator with no memories of anything that happened to him before. He arrives on a sort of compound populated with adolescent boys who are sustaining themselves with farming and the sort while a select group, called Maze Runners (the first book is called The Maze Runner) are trying to escape from the maze. Eventually they realize that they are being tested to see who will survive the Maze and the Glade.

The second book is the second trial testing the survival skills of the "Gladers" as they are called.

I really like these books. I finished the second book in about 4-6 hours and just started the third book today. If you thought Hunger Games was a little too romantic or you wish the main character had been a dude, this is the series for you. I am loving it!

1 comment:

  1. Just finished this series. John and I actually liked it a lot.

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