This is not the
book you are looking for.
Move along.
If I ever suggested that this was the
next “Hunger Games” series, I am retracting. If I ever told you to try this
trilogy to satisfy your need for more dystopian literature, I apologize. If I
ever led you to believe that this series was worth a gander, please ignore me. I
was wrong. Very wrong.
Take The
Maze Runner alone. Be satisfied with it. It is good. It is satisfying. Yes,
it poses many questions. Yes, it leaves you wanting to know more. But the
problem is that those questions will never be answered. You will never know
more. The wizard behind the curtain is never unveiled with a flourish.
From the very first, the main character
Thomas has only ever really wanted one thing – his memory back. All of the boys
in the Glade suffer from the same problem – their memories have been erased. So
as much as they can ask questions… no one has answers.
If you get stung by a Griever, you
undergo the Change and you gain some of your memory back. In fact, Thomas
purposefully gets stung for this reason. He regains a few memories from his
time as a boy at home with his mother, but he never gains any solid insight
into his time spent with WICKED.
In this, book three, WICKED has finally
decided to end the trials and give the boys their memories back. YEA! No. Not
at all. Our narrator and his closest friends decide to abstain. They no longer
want their memories back. Seriously? When Thomas is finally forced to undergo
the surgery to reinstate his memories, he manages to block them from his
consciousness. Please. I’m done. I’ve had enough.
In the good old days, (last year?) you
could expect that all hints, clues, questions would be addressed. Loose ends
would be tied. Every word and action had a purpose. And when you finished the
book, you could be wowed by the outcome. Or rewarded with the answers. You
could say “ah-hah!” You would be mystified. You’d rush to go back and reread
the novel and be in on the secret.
Not here. Alas, so many misdirections
either intentional or accidental. So many things that I was interested to have
cleared up. I couldn’t wait to see the big picture. But there wasn’t one. Disappointment.
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