I personally loved the second installment in this series, the last book left us wondering what was going on and slightly confused as to who you could trust. If you read The Maze Runner you will know that a handful of gladers escaped the maze meaning The Scorch Trials is set in a completely different environment and explores into a whole new concept that is more action packed than the previous book if that is even possible.
This book has a very zombie like feel to it, so it comes as no surprise that I am obsessed with it.
It starts off exactly where The Maze Runner ended and the group thinks they are finally safe but one morning discover that their rescuers have vanished. The glader's are then informed that the trials are not over and that the world they have been returned too is suffering from a virus called The Flare, which turns its victims into cranks; people who become increasingly crazy and violent and end up as zombie like beings. They are instructed that they must cross the city inhabited by cranks in order to receive the cure for the flare, this is where they run into two new characters, Brenda and Jorge, they decide to help the glader's in return for the possibility of receiving a cure.
The book introduces a few new characters including members from group B who are all girls aside from Aris, they went through an identical maze trial to the gladers (group A). Also joining the character list are two people infected with the flare, Brenda and Jorge.
The introduction of Brenda introduces a love triangle type scenario with Thomas and Teresa, and Brenda and Thomas's relationship is also strengthened by the plot twist of Teresa's supposed betrayal.
I really enjoyed how this book has you questioning who too trust and even when characters claim to be telling the truth you always have a sense of doubt niggling in the back of your head.
I think Teresa's character has the biggest story arch in this book and she will have a very Marmite
affect on you; you will either love her or hate her.
There are a number of WTF moments and James Dashner's imagination is just genius, I'm really looking forward to the film interpretation of the final battle between the survivors and the monsters created by WICKED as the picture Dashner created sounds terrifying but creates such excitement
as a reader. I hope they don't stray too far form the book but given the differences in the first film I am suspicious they will.
What I really love about this series is the mystery element and you're always trying to work out whats real and what is just a creation of WICKED. I highly recommend this book and the entire Maze runner series, I would have give the first book an 8/10 and for The Scorch Trials I give it an 9/10.
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