The Scorch Trials - James Dashner

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Title: The Scorch Trials
Author: James Dashner
Genre: Dystopian
Rating: 3/5
# pages: Audiobook ~11hrs
Date read: October, 2012

Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.

In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety... until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.

The Gladers are far from finished with running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.

Unfortunately not nearly as good as the first book in the series. It suffers the traditional weakness of being a sequel to a dystopian book - now the reader knows what's going on (part of it, anyway) and the mystery just isn't as great any longer. Besides, I liked Teresa, and was sad to see her development in this book. However it was still good enough to keep me interested, and as it ended up with an even bigger cliff-hanger than the first book, I'll probably be reading the next one too... eventually, anyway.

... on the other hand, I've just read that my major questions aren't answered in book 3 either. Never mind then!