adventurous challenging emotional funny sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Not bad, just not as good as the original trilogy
dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Fun to see some of the beginning of the maze runner world. I mean, reading them all in a row you can see the formulaic bits, but it's still fun.

This is the story of how the Flare virus came to be. It's very gruesome and graphic so I'd advice against young readers. I don't want to say much more because I'd prefer not to spoil it, but it definitely gives some background to the maze runner.

I only gave it 3 stars because I honestly wasn't as invested in it as I wanted to be. It was a struggle to push through reading it. Not sure of it's because I'm not typically a prequel type of person, or if the writing was just less in this book than the original trilogy.
adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous challenging tense fast-paced
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Yeesh! The constant nail biting action was just too much. My gosh, what these characters endure. None stop fighting for survival was almost too ridiculous. Very interesting premise though. Very dark and very violent.

It was really good, but didn't explain WICKED enough for me.