Book Review :: The Death Cure, by James Dashner

The Death Cure by James Dashner
Series: The Maze Runner #3
Also in this series: The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials
Published by Chicken House
on 04 May 2012
Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adult
Pages: 327
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Thomas knows that Wicked can't be trusted, but they say the time for lies is over, that they've collected all they can from the Trials and now must rely on the Gladers, with full memories restored, to help them with their ultimate mission. It's up to the Gladers to complete the blueprint for the cure to the Flare with a final voluntary test.

What Wicked doesn't know is that something's happened that no Trial or Variable could have foreseen. Thomas has remembered far more than they think. And he knows that he can't believe a word of what Wicked says.

The time for lies is over. But the truth is more dangerous than Thomas could ever imagine. Will anyone survive the Death Cure?

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What is The Death Cure about?

The Death Cure continues Thomas’ story as he battles for the truth about himself, the disease called the Flare, and the part that he had to play in the organisation WICKED. Now on the other side of the second lot of completed Trials, Thomas and his friends escape the clutches of WICKED, only to be thrown into the real world of Flare infected citizens. While some of them are immune to the disease, others are not, and Thomas just wants to get all his friends together and get away from it all.

“Kill me. If you’ve ever been my friend, kill me.”

The story continues on from The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, which are books 1 and 2 respectively.

My (brief) thoughts on The Death Cure

I ave to say that The Death Cure was a little harder to get into than the past two books. But at the same time, I wanted to know what the heck was going on and whether Thomas would ever escape WICKED.

“I don’t think there is a right or wrong anymore. Only horrible and not-quite-so-horrible.”

After loving the first two so much, I was slightly disappointed in the ending, which was kind of like…’eh’ (not quite ‘ugh’, but not really ‘ah!’ either. You know?), so that was interesting. But the rest of the book was action-packed and happy and sad all at once, which was great. I did enjoy it, but not as much as the first two. There’s a prequel to The Maze Runner, called The Kill Order, which I want to read too.