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justxjules 's review for:
The Maze Runner
by James Dashner
Mazerunner begins in a box. Thomas awakens there and does not remember anything about his life. He then gets transported to a strange place were other boys with the same memory loss try to survive - and to escape through the huge maze that surrounds them.
This book could have been so good! But somehow it lacked the heart and the brains it should have had.
At first I was intrigued. I liked the setting (it reminded me of “Lost“ and “The Cube“ which I both love) and I had high expectations.
Unfortunately, those were not met. The mystery and the action was a bit lame. The mystery mostly consisted of “I could tell you, but I won't for no good reason.“ which was really annoying. The action was extremely underwhelming because everything seemed so easy which did not fit in the context of the story (Thomas did not even do anything extraordinary and yet succeeded at tasks the others were failing at for two years.it just did not make sense).
The characters were very flat and though the author tries, he fails to create a bond between the reader and the characters. I even think he fails at bonding the characters to each other.There was no feeling except “Thomas liked him“ or “Thomas hated him“.
Though I don't have much positive to say, I nevertheless liked it at parts because of the setting and the suspence.
For me,it was the wrong story in the right setting which leaves me overall disappointed.
Additional thoughts:
- so what was the purpose of everything exactly? The conclusion seemed utterly stupid to me
- what was it with the telepathy?? It seemed so out of place and annoyed the hell out of me
- when we're at it: What is it with the made up curse-words? It seemed really childish for such a“violent“ book.
- The grievers were so lame as threats...
- Why doing such clever character-naming and then go nowhere with it? Waste
- The maze lost it's flair pretty fast due to its size.I expected an endless unsovable-because-of-size maze and got a lame, tiny version of it
- I liked how the boys organized themselves
- why were there only boys and suddenly one girl.What was the purpose of that?
This book could have been so good! But somehow it lacked the heart and the brains it should have had.
At first I was intrigued. I liked the setting (it reminded me of “Lost“ and “The Cube“ which I both love) and I had high expectations.
Unfortunately, those were not met. The mystery and the action was a bit lame. The mystery mostly consisted of “I could tell you, but I won't for no good reason.“ which was really annoying. The action was extremely underwhelming because everything seemed so easy which did not fit in the context of the story (Thomas did not even do anything extraordinary and yet succeeded at tasks the others were failing at for two years.it just did not make sense).
The characters were very flat and though the author tries, he fails to create a bond between the reader and the characters. I even think he fails at bonding the characters to each other.There was no feeling except “Thomas liked him“ or “Thomas hated him“.
Though I don't have much positive to say, I nevertheless liked it at parts because of the setting and the suspence.
For me,it was the wrong story in the right setting which leaves me overall disappointed.
Additional thoughts:
- so what was the purpose of everything exactly? The conclusion seemed utterly stupid to me
- what was it with the telepathy?? It seemed so out of place and annoyed the hell out of me
- when we're at it: What is it with the made up curse-words? It seemed really childish for such a“violent“ book.
- The grievers were so lame as threats...
- Why doing such clever character-naming and then go nowhere with it? Waste
- The maze lost it's flair pretty fast due to its size.I expected an endless unsovable-because-of-size maze and got a lame, tiny version of it
- I liked how the boys organized themselves
- why were there only boys and suddenly one girl.What was the purpose of that?