I know it's been over a week since I posted, but it's with good reason. This book is a little longer than the ones I've been reading lately. More importantly, it was worth savouring, so I limited myself to a few chapters a day (read: I got busy). The premise of this book is interesting. I do like apocalyptic type books (as long as they are somewhat believable). This one slid nicely into that category, but did things I haven't seen before from this sub-genre. The premise of the book is that Thomas arrives in 'the box' to a place called the Glade. It's filled with boys who all have jobs keeping the Glade running (cleaning, cooking, farming, first-aid, etc.). One of the jobs is being a runner. Each morning the walls on one side of the Glade open up and the runners go out into the maze to map it. Each day they come back and record their findings and each day the walls of the maze move. Their only hope of getting out of this place is to figure out the message or code of the maze. Then one day a girl, Teresa, shows up and brings a message of doom with her. She triggers the Ending of the maze and the Glade. The book is great for a reader who enjoys a lot of suspense. There are great intense scenes and the epilogue is a satisfying enough close to book one, but leaves you excited for book two (which is already out. Also, this book somehow gets away with bad language, except there isn't technically any curse words in it. That's what happens when you make up your own words for the Gladers! This is definitely worth being picked up.
THE book is pretty much like "lockdown"
ReplyDeleteI agree with you in a lot of ways. I find that they each have their own unique storyline though, but some concepts are very similar. For example, the kids are on their own in terms of survival, dropped into this dystopia by manipulative adults. In both series, we don't know if the 'outside' world is the one the main characters remember or if it has drastically changed as well. Also, both books have monsters of some kind and an ominous quality to them. It is interesting to think about 'what if'?
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