200 Word Review: The Death Cure

Posted December 17, 2014 / Book Reviews / 2 Comments

The Death Cure by James Dashner
Series: The Maze Runner #3
Genres: Dystopia, Young Adult
Published by Random House on October 11th 2011
Also by this author: The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials
Format: Audiobook (325 pages) • Source: Library
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two-half-stars

It’s the end of the line.

WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test.

Will anyone survive?

What WICKED doesn’t know is that Thomas remembers far more than they think. And it’s enough to prove that he can’t believe a word of what they say.

The truth will be terrifying.

Thomas beat the Maze. He survived the Scorch. He’ll risk anything to save his friends. But the truth might be what ends it all.

The time for lies is over.

This book made me want to pull my hair out most of the time, and yet I somehow finished it. I can’t tell you how tempted I was to just Google how this book ends and be done with it all. The trilogy certainly got progressively worse for me. I LOVED the first book, didn’t like the second book as much, and pretty much loathed this last one.

Here’s a summary of this book series (basically book 2 and 3):

Walking and/or running around, trying to figure shit out
Separating from friends
Trying to find friends
Separating from friends again
Trying to find friends again
Making a lot of dumb decisions and being stubborn
Some fighting and/or killing

I just got so sick of the same shit happening allllll the time. The ending honestly didn’t bother me that much but at the same time I wish there was a little more to it. The whole book felt like a cop-out. Did he plan the series in advance or make it up as he went along? I really don’t know.