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The Death Cure by James Dashner

6 reviews

guccishoestrings's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

A good book to end the trilogy on. The main cast as been through a lot and the world is f*cked beyond hope. WICKED has lost their mind and are trying to find the cure at any means and I mean by any means. The ending of the book was a little disappointing and left way to much unanswered about the future of the characters and the world.

Sadly Newt also dies which is absolutely heartbreaking.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, War, Body horror, Drug use, Murder, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Child death, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, and Suicidal thoughts

swimfast724's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

It was very very good but literally heartbreaking 
I was so upset with the ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Colonisation, Body horror, Violence, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, and Death

Moderate: Medical trauma, Confinement, Police brutality, War, Grief, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug use, Abandonment, and Death of parent

liliana_b's review

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic friendship, Violence, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Torture, Murder, Mental illness, Medical content, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Grief, Genocide, Gore, Addiction, and Drug use

allym's review

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Body horror, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cannibalism, and Gun violence

Minor: Drug use

ishouldbereading's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Grief, Child death, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Cursing, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Drug use, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

nytephoenyx's review against another edition

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Ugh, what a slog.

It's been a long time since I've read anything of Dashner's, so the writing style came at me like I was reading it for the first time.  I want to call it a lot of "telling, not showing", but there's something to his verb choice that aggravates me.  There's an awful lot of "Thomas now saw..." and "Thomas understood that..." and "It was obvious to Thomas."  The deeper I got into the audiobook, the more grating these descriptions were.  Thomas was at all times both omniscient and clueless.  Always making the exact right choices to get in the exact wrong situations from which he'd make the exact right choice to get out of... and then end up in another wrong situation, from which he'd make (you guessed it!) the exact right choice to escape.  And on it goes.  It was repetitive and monotonous.

Usually when I continue a series I'm not particularly in love with, I'm in it for a character.  And almost always, *somehow*, I pick the character that the author chooses to kill off or otherwise destroy in the next book.  I don't know how I do it - it's a knack, I guess.  But that happened again here where we were and will forever be stuck with THOMAS.  Boring, shallow, unexciting Thomas.  If you're going to have a Chosen One (which now he indisputably is) at least make him interesting.  The concept of this series remains really interesting, but its execution is subpar.

I'm definitely done with this series.  THE DEATH CURE was a long walk to nothing.  There was little to no character development, little to no plot progress, and the writing was grating.  There are so many better books to read by authors who do not sexually harass women and then gaslight them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Trafficking, War, and Violence