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...
Now that I've finished school I can enjoy some leisure reading time again! With that time I was finally able to finish reading the book that everyone had been talking about months ago: Matched by Ally Condie. This book is set in a dystopic 1984-esque future where the population does not get to decide anything. They don't get to decide what they eat, what they wear, who they marry, or what profession they will have. Cassia has the unthinkable happen, she gets matched up with her best friend Xander. But, when she puts his microchip in to view his information another face pops up on the screen. The different face changes everything for Cassia, and now she must decide what to do when the infallible Society makes a mistake. Once I had the time I raced through this book. Cassia did get on my nerves a little bit with her selfishness near the end, but then none of us are saints. This book is the first of a planned trilogy, so it isn't tied up at t...
