ladynovella 's review for:

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

4.0

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This was the third time I tried to read this (finally decided that the audiobook was the route to go here). Not sure why it took me so many times to get into this. It does start quite slow - introducing the characters and the maze and the threats took a whole. But then Teresa showed up and that's when the story got interesting. She introduced a level to the mystery of the maze that wasn't coming through for me in the first few chapters. Plus, the action ramped up and more and more plot elements came into play. This book reminded me a lot of the Michael Vey series by Richard Paul Evans and "Variant" by Robison Wells - kids used in mysterious science experiments seemingly without their consent for The Greater Good(tm). I enjoyed this quite a bit after the plot started moving and I'm intrigued to see where the rest of the series goes. For this being out for so long, I'm surprised I don't know more details about the overall story, but that makes me even more interested to find out what happens next.