Although he has no idea why, Thomas longs to become a Runner, one of the boys who run the maze every day, from the moment he arrives in the Glade. Plus the stakes are raised by the horrific monsters known as Grievers who live in the Maze that have either killed or "stung" several boys who came before Thomas. Unfortunately a few of them have been there for two years and still haven't had any success in solving the maze. They just keep going through the same motions every single day, with one of those daily activities being that some of the boys go out into the Maze surrounding the Glade, searching for a way out. None of them remember their lives before the Glade either. When the Box finally stops, he has arrived in a place called the Glade, where about fifty other boys work and live. Aside from his name and basic knowledge of the world around him, he has no memory of who he is, where he came from, or how he ended up in this predicament. It begins with him waking up in a metal box which he quickly realizes is an elevator. Thomas is the main character and third-person narrator of the story. And that little bit of mystery that's left at the end makes me eager to read the next book soon. Not everything is revealed by the end, so even if I wasn't a latecomer to the series, I'd know that a sequel was in the works. I couldn't help wanting to know what was going on, since the reader is every bit as much in the dark as Thomas is, and I couldn't wait for him to uncover the next piece of the puzzle. However, I found myself quickly forgetting my ruminations not long after they occurred to me, simply because the book was so darn entertaining. For this reason, if a reader really wanted to deeply scrutinize this story, they could probably come up with some things to complain about. I also remember coming up with questions on occasion, some of which were answered and others that I don't think were. A couple of times, I figured things out before the kids did, which made those parts ever so slightly predictable. This gave the book an air of mystery and suspense throughout that kept me reading and coming back for more. Also, no one who lives there has any idea what the Maze is all about, how to solve it, or if there even is a solution. In The Maze Runner, Thomas, the main character, has no idea who he really is or why he was sent to the Glade. The main difference, though, is that with those stories, particularly The Hunger Games, the reader knows what the characters' main objective is right from the start and it's just a matter of them reaching their goals. The Maze Runner is a YA, post-apocalyptic, dystopian story in much the same vein as The Hunger Games or Divergent. And then everything in the Glade begins to change. Then a girl shows up in the lift, the first ever to come to the Glade. For reasons he cannot explain, Thomas feels drawn to the Maze and wants to become a Runner, but the boys in charge say it will be a long time before that happens. Every day, Runners go into the Maze, looking for a way out, but in two years, no one has ever solved the puzzle and several have died along the way. Inside the walls that surround the Glade, they're safe from harm, but outside the walls lies an expansive, ever-changing maze filled with the kind of monsters Thomas has only seen in his nightmares. They live and work in a verdant area known as the Glade. When the lift reaches its destination, he finds himself surrounded by dozens of other teenage boys. Young Thomas awakens in an elevator with no memory of anything except his name. Evernight Teen Summer Kick-off Blog Hop.Cosmo Red Hot Reads from Harlequin Launch.
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