The Maze Runner

I know many of you have gone to the theaters to see or have at least heard about The Maze Runner.  The Maze Runner is an amazing book.  It is filled with suspense for all ages and genders.  It is a series of books but I will only talk about the first one just in case all you people out there have not read or seen the movie yet.  (P.S. The movie is also fantastic because it follows almost perfectly along with the book but it will not come out on DVD until December 16).

The book begins with the main character stuck inside of a moving, dark box.  He has no recollection of who he is or how he got there.  He feels sick and he has common knowledge of the world but nothing personal.  After what seems like for ever the box stops moving and is opened up.  Our protagonist finds himself surrounded boy teenage boys of all ages.  The other boys introduce themselves and try to explain to the "Greenie" what they know about where he is.

The place that the boys live in is a large area surrounded by walls called the Glade.  Outside the Glade is a maze.  Since the first boy was placed in the glade years ago the boys have been trying to figure out the maze to escape the Glade.  Every night the doors that lead into the maze from the Glade close (Seemingly by magic).  This is to protect the boys from the terrible and deadly monsters that roam the maze at night, "Grievers."

A Griever is a horrible monster that is part flesh part mechanical.  The author of the book goes into great detail for these monsters.  I cannot do it justice but they make a horrible clank and moaning sound when they walk that will give you shivers up
and down your spin.

Anyway, latter in the book the main character remembers that his name is Thomas.  In a couple days Thomas starts to get used to working in the Glade and he even eventually becomes a runner for the maze.  But, then a girl shows up in the same box Thomas came out of.  She comes with a note in her hand saying that she is the last one ever.  Not only that but she arrives unconscious.  The girl (the first one ever) suddenly wakes and yells Thomas's name and then falls asleep again.  Thomas also seems to recognize the girl but after she gets to the Glade terrible things start to happen.  Grievers are out in daylight and attacking people.  And eventually the doors to the Glade are not closing at night.

The boys of the glade are afraid and they blame Thomas because he seemed to know the girl and a few people who got their memories back blame him for putting them in the Glade.  Thomas can also speak to the girl in his head but keeps this from the others in fear that they would recent him more.  With everything going wrong in the Glade the boys must decided if it is even safe to stay any more or if they should adventure into the maze and find a way out.

This is such an amazing book!  I have read the first on and seen the movie.  Right now I am reading the second.  If you read the Hunger Games or Divergent you will enjoy this book just as well because it takes place in a post apolitical world also.