The Death Cure

Of all the possible ways Dashner could have wrapped up the trilogy, he chose the simplest. I am extremely disappointed with how the story ended. There were so many options, so much to explain and we get "and they all lived happily (as happily as they can) ever after?"

There was too much traveling. I found myself skipping over all the walking/driving/flying back and forth, hoping to get to some good stuff. Unfortunately there was no good stuff. What was Thomas' relationship with WlCKED/Theresa/Rat Face? Where the hell was the Chancellor that Thomas was suppose to trust? God I could go on and on with the questions we will never get answers to.

Sorely disappointed. ( )

Let's be honest. We're all friends here. This book wasn't very good. It wasn't satisfying as an ending, as a middle, as a anything. It was just plain disappointing, no matter which way you look at it.

The characters should have evolved some.. Grown up maybe.. But nope, they all were sort of one note lame and whiny. The things you wait for all through the first two books? Never happen. And they should have happened! It would have made sense for them to happen! It just made me think that Dashner lacked the creativity required to handle said situations (I'm talking mysterious pasts and lost memories here) so he made up excuses and ways around having to write all of that.

The ending was a cop out. It actually made all of what led up to it pointless. It reminded me of those movies and books where everything is all cool and trippy and then guess what, it was all a dream. No resolution, it was all just pointless.

Whatever though, I'm over it. A disappointing ending to the series. One star. ( )

I did it! I finally finished "The Maze Runner" trilogy! Overall, it was a damn good violent young adult dystopian series and it kept you guessing til the very end. I highly recommend it!

This final novel opens with Thomas, Minho, Newt, Jorge, and Brenda escaping from the WICKED headquarters and literally trying to find a way to save the world from the flare. As usual however, things are not as they seem. They escape to a safe city (Denver) and soon find out that it isn't really safe after all and the flare is running rampant. Cranks soon take over the city and Thomas and the gang must decide if they want to trust and team up with "right arm" a group supposedly aimed at taking down WICKED.

Per usual, James Dashner will have you flipping pages like crazy trying to discover what in the hell is really going on. This is easily up there with "The Hunger Games" (albeit more graphic, depressing, and violent). Read it already! ( )

I’m going to tell you up front that I hated this book. I looked forward to it for so long, hoping that there would finally be answers to the mysteries from the previous two books in the series.

What did I get instead? A plot line that purposefully obscures key points of information, which if told would actually explain what the heck has been going on in this series. But oh, no. We don’t get answers, we just get an ending, but no explanation of all of the things that happen before. And the reason for all of this mystery? The author is writing a prequel of course, and wouldn’t want to ruin the prequel for us by actually letting us in on any of what really happened.

The whole thing was a gigantic case of the bait and switch. The first two books were filled with unique story lines, but they come to a fizzling end in this book of non-answers.

But that’s okay because I’m sure he’ll tell us the answer in the prequel, right? Unless those secrets are destined for a sequel to the prequel, and so on and so forth.

I just don’t care anymore. This book was a huge disappointment and a waste of my time. ( )

This is a great adventure series, especially for reluctant guy readers. ( )