Title: The Scorch Trials Author: James Dashner Series: The Maze Runner (book 2) Publisher: Chicken House Ltd Release Date: 5 Jun. 2014 ISBN: 9781909489417 Synopsis Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escaping meant he would get his life back. But no one knew what sort of a life they were going back to... Burned and baked, the earth is a wasteland, its people driven mad by an infection known as the Flare. Instead of freedom, Thomas must face another trial. He must cross the Scorch to once again save himself and his friends. My Review I enjoyed Maze Runner overall but had a few reservations, but I was intrigued to find out more so started to read Scorch Trials. The Gladers are out of the maze, but it's not the comforting end they hoped for, instead the experiments continue, but on a much larger and more dangerous scale. Thomas and his friends must once more band together to try and overcome all the trials an...
Last night I went to see Tron Legacy, a sequel to a movie that came out almost 20 years ago and used to be in high rotation on The Disney Channel. Then, today as I was reading Don't You Forget About Me , one of the authors mentioned the much talked about idea of a John Hughes teen movie sequel. All of this got me thinking about sequels to movies we loved as children, and sequels to movies that just had no place with having a sequel. Sometimes, these sequels work, sometimes they go horribly wrong *cough*The Matrix*cough*. Tron Legacy was pretty darn awesome. It needed some more editing, and was a bit slow in parts, but at least it made sense and had some real soul to it. Growing up in the 80's I was well aware of the first Tron movie, although I was not a big fan. I didn't dislike it, just wasn't a big fan. So, I may be more forgiving of the sequel then someone who is a big fan of the movie. All in all though, it was a sequel that can mostly stan...
