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The Kill Order
by James Dashner
Stop me if you've heard this one before:
The Kill Order was about 300 pages too long, and it's only about 325 pages.
The book begins with Teresa watching Thomas undergo the procedure by which his memories are erased, and then thrown into the lift to be delivered to the Glade. Then we flash back to thirteen years before that, to a bunch of unrelated characters as they endure the actual sun flares and the virus called the Flare. They might be mentioned in book two or three of the series, but I didn't pay close enough attention to remember.
The whole Mark/Trina/Alex/Lana/etc. story, which is really 95% of the book, was just not that interesting to me. I wasn't clear why we were following these people, what they had to do with the Maze Runner series, or why we should care about them. I'm still not clear.
And then the ending
As this was being billed as 0.5 in the Maze Runner series, I had expected a story about the creation of the Glade and its creators, especially given the prologue. That the story wasn't felt kind of bait and switch-y to me.
The Kill Order was about 300 pages too long, and it's only about 325 pages.
The book begins with Teresa watching Thomas undergo the procedure by which his memories are erased, and then thrown into the lift to be delivered to the Glade. Then we flash back to thirteen years before that, to a bunch of unrelated characters as they endure the actual sun flares and the virus called the Flare. They might be mentioned in book two or three of the series, but I didn't pay close enough attention to remember.
The whole Mark/Trina/Alex/Lana/etc. story, which is really 95% of the book, was just not that interesting to me. I wasn't clear why we were following these people, what they had to do with the Maze Runner series, or why we should care about them. I'm still not clear.
And then the ending
Spoiler
flashes forward two years after Mark et. al and eleven years before the prologue. But the entire epilogue is one scene: a boy (who we find out, in the last sentence, is Thomas) being taken from his mother by the unnamed authorities.As this was being billed as 0.5 in the Maze Runner series, I had expected a story about the creation of the Glade and its creators, especially given the prologue. That the story wasn't felt kind of bait and switch-y to me.