![]() ![]() ![]() The audiobook narrator? Lovely! Keep hiring them, their voice has a lot of range and emotion.īut Dashner…stop beating dead horses! book book review review maze runner james dashner scifi apocalypse post apocalyptic flare sci-fi yaĭo I have a bias in loving this book? Yes. But when book 2 comes out, I’m not motivated to continue. ![]() I got an advanced review copy of this book, which means, hey, I listened for free. It’s spreading the plot too thin and expecting to keep our attention too long. But splitting it up into a TRILOGY isn’t going to work. ![]() A cure? Love it, cures are great, let’s see what happens to this world when the literal madness ends! If this had been ONE book, I think it would have been interesting. This is somewhat an intriguing idea, again, in the mid-Covid world. Humans come from the mainland to the island of Glader survivors, and convince several people to return across the ocean to find a final cure for the Flare. In this book, Dashner says “You know my bittersweet ending? Fuck it, let’s start this all over again.” Like, in our modern day, now that we’ve gone through the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s easy to see how unhinged and immoral the isolationist ending would be in the real world, but in the post-apocalypse of the Flare, taking your one chance at species survival and faffing off to a remote island…it was interesting. Here’s the thing: the way Dashner ended the Maze Runner series was harsh, but it was unique. ![]()
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