Review: #636
Title: Death Cure
Series: Maze Runner - 3rd book
Author: James Dashner
Read Before: no
Comments: The conclusion to the Maze Runner trilogy, it is noticeably a step up from the previous two books. Death Cure actually gives you some answers to the questions the series had been presenting. While there is still that fan fiction feeling from the style of writing, the plot manages to keep your attention through various events, including a lot of action. There are frequent fights and in an attempt to make the reader empathize, characters will die. Unfortunately, while the important characters do die, they were unlikeable and at best, the reader was probably impartial to them so their deaths did not have major impact. Death Cure was also more violent, the main character will kill again and again, with a lot of scuffles and descriptions of blood. The love triangle of Thomas, Brenda and Teresa continues to be a focus and the annoying thing is that romance isn’t the focus of Death Cure, yet you feel the author wanted to make a big deal out of it. This ends up in a limbo and the resolution of the relationships was extremely disappointing. The ending was another disappointment. You could tell when there were 20 to 50 pages left and that the story had to end soon, that it was going to be a rushed ending. It wasn’t a satisfying solution and in the end, it felt that the first two books were pointless, as was most of Death Cure.
Rating: 7/10