By: James Dashner
Libby audiobook 11 hours
Read by: Mark Deakins
Published: 2009
Genre: YA Dystopian fiction
Ugh! I know I've read this before. My blog has books two and three in the series (blogged the summer of 2012) but I can't find my review of this one. It's not on my old Excel spreadsheet, either.
I was surprised by how much I disliked this book. I believe I had a more favorable opinion of it over a decade ago when I first encountered it.
Thomas is irritating. He wants answers to all his questions, but is unwilling to communicate about his own discoveries.
The whole "Why are these kids in the maze?" and "Who put them there?" and "Why were their memories wiped?" and a hundred more questions are NOT answered! By the end of the book, you know so little about this world. I won't make the mistake of re-reading the other books, though. I remember them as being unfulfilling and my blog confirms that for me.
In places, the writing and dialogue are so stilted and juvenile that it's almost painful. The reader did a fine job, but the author is definitely writing for kids and not adults!
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