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The Death Cure by James Dashner

13 reviews

isabella_gautreauuu's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

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

4.5

Beautiful ending, sad story and many loveable characters died, the reliving of them in the maze was crazy, really fast-paced, interesting plot, no questions answered and am still very confused, overall, great book and can't wait for the next one

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Murder and Body horror

Minor: Suicide attempt

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

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death and Suicide attempt

psliz's review

adventurous tense medium-paced

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

4.25

action-packed with twists and a bittersweet ending 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Minor: Suicide attempt

tbs250's review

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Blood, Body horror, Child death, and Violence

Moderate: Murder

Minor: Car accident, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

mj_hyperfixation_station's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

This book was emotional, overwhelming and non stop. It was a rollercoaster to read but I’m happy I stuck with it and finished it

I’m only somewhat disappointed in t ending but it could have been worse. I liked how the book went full circle and they went back to the glade which felt like years ago even though it was only weeks ago.

I was impressed to say the least with the outcome of the book 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Cannibalism, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Kidnapping, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Vomit, and Child death

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

faefires's review

adventurous funny sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

the death cure does what many dystopian franchises struggle to do: exit the original premise of their world and still satisfy the readers who came for that premise. hunger games did it, divergent did not. the death cure finds the perfect balance between the mystery of WICKED that the readers want to unearth and the development of the characters we’ve grown to love. 

it starts strong, with our three musketeers showing they are yet again the gayest bunch of straight boys ever. (dashner, you missed an opportunity to make this the pioneer of gay science fiction) it slows down in the middle (probably because minho is not there to keep the plot moving by punching people) and then races to the finish with all the emotions. 

many people criticize page 250. to them, i simply say: get a grip, it was needed. the book would be a 4.0 and not a 4.5 if that page didn’t happen. emotional sacrifice, character growth, it was a crucial part of the story and has been foreshadowed in his character. did i cry the first time? yeah, of course. was it one of the better emotional tugs that cinched the franchise as epic? yeah. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, and Medical content

Moderate: Suicide attempt

chaseisdying's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This book is definitely better than the scorch trials. I feel like nothing really happens in the first 200 or so pages though 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Minor: 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