Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction
My Rating: 8/10
I picked this book up after listening to the author talk about how he got his inspiration from two of my all-time favorite books... Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) and Lord of the Flies (William Golding). The book starts by introducing the reader to a character who has just arrived in the Glade - Thomas. He has been stripped of his memories and soon finds that all the other boys who live in the Glade arrived in the same fashion. No one knows how or why they were left in this strange place, but one thing is certain ~ the Maze outside the walls of the Glade is dangerous. Horrible creatures called Grievers (think about squishy versions of the Cleaners from the movie Labyrinth) lurk outside the Glade walls, ready to attack the boys. It soon becomes apparent that the Creators of the Glade and Maze have cryptic and twisted plans for the boys. When a girl arrives in the Glade with a message of doom, their small world starts to crumble and it seems the only way to escape will be to uncover the horrific secret that the Creators have kept from the boys all this time. The cliffhanger ending will have you cursing Dashner and his publishers for making us wait until late 2010 for the sequel!
*Descriptions of horrible monsters and their attacks on the boys in the Glade may be tough on squeamish readers*
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