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The Maze Runner by James Dashner

26 reviews

nirellis's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

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

5.0

I devoured this. So fast paced, always something happening, short chapters, a mysterious maze AND likeable characters I mean what else could you ask for. 

This book just flew by, I felt the same reading it as I did when I read The Hunger Games :’) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

katie_345's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense 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

5.0

I’ve seen the movies first, and liked them and knew of the book. I wish I read the book first to avoid spoilers. This book was sooo good  I read it really quickly once I got into it. The perfect dystopian ya book and a great start to the series. It looks like this book got me out of a reading slump 👍🏻 (written when I finished it; the middle of the night) 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Child death

Moderate: Violence, Murder, Self harm, Grief, Gore, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

taraaleitz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Re-read this for the first time since it first came out and I still really enjoyed it!! Despite so many new distopian-type books having been published since 2014 when this was released, this still stands as a decent book.

I was on a distopian/sci-fi kick from the time of The Hunger Games until the time of Fifth Wave, so all of the books blend together for the most part, but as I was re-reading this I was able to recall some details that goes to show that this book was unique enough to stick out in my memory.

Of course the complexity of the plot line and such is lacking a little bit, but I credit that to this being a YA sci-fi book and also the fact that this is a series—the author probably didn’t want to get too deep in the first book so that there is still a lot to be left up in the air for readers to want to pursue the rest of the series. Also, it’s funny looking back and reading this because the author does a play on profane words and creates new words like “shuck”, “klunk”, “slinthead” and “shuckface” to keep this more YA; it’s something I don’t think I ever picked up on when reading this when I was younger. Don’t love that, but I do appreciate the fact that there isn’t profanity.

I have never read any other books in the series, but I think I’m going to now since it was never spoiled for me!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood and Suicide

Minor: Vomit and Murder

swimfast724's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious 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: Genocide, Grief, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Slavery, Violence, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, and Death

Moderate: Bullying, Toxic relationship, Body horror, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Self harm, and Pandemic/Epidemic

fe_aye's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious 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? No

4.5

This was a really, really well constructed mystery dystopia. I finally got around to reading this and I do not regret it at all, it’s tense, emotional, and everything works together until the very end. 

Thomas is such a fun protagonist and I love seeing his interactions with the others, Chuck, Teresa, Minho, Alby. They’re all such fun. To anyone who has any doubts about this series do check it out, it was worth all the fuss. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Confinement, Death, and Child death

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

isabella_gautreauuu's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

Very fast-paced plot, lovable characters, leaves you with many questions unanswered, very well written first book of a series

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Child death, and Gore

Minor: Murder

gentle_garbage_baby's review against another edition

adventurous tense fast-paced

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

3.25

It starts off a bit slow but picks up towards the middle. Not the most engaging thing I've ever read but it wasn't bad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Blood, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Confinement, Medical content, and Vomit

sophiafrench's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Chronic illness, Child abuse, Bullying, Violence, Vomit, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Kidnapping

_ren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious relaxing 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Death, Self harm, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, and Confinement

Moderate: Kidnapping, Torture, Emotional abuse, Bullying, and Blood

Minor: Sexual harassment, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, and War

livreads16's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional tense fast-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? No

4.0

The last 50 pages were wild. The rest of the book was just okay. The movie definitely did not do this story justice. Then again, the characters lack a lot of depth. I now they are supposed to be kids remembering who they are after being brainwashed and manipulated but lots of them have like no personality… All in all not a bad book, I think the next one will be more interesting. The whole plot twist with the creators at the end is really eerie and I’m excited to see what happens next. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Violence, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Grief, Blood, and Body horror

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death, Child death, Vomit, and Suicide