A review by ironseaweed
The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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? No

3.5

This is personally, my least favorite out of the main series, but definitely worth while. I heard if you watch the movies before you read the books it’s more challenging to get through. I didn’t watch the movies before the books, and I absolutely loved it! Would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

There is gore. If you don’t like to read those kind of topics I’d not recommend.