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...
Isla (pronounced Eye-La like Island) attends the School of America in Paris and has had a hopeless crush on Josh since their freshmen year. The two meet up one summer while home in NYC, and it is the start of a whirlwind romance that consumes them both during their senior year of school. This is the final companion book in the set that includes Anna & the French Kiss and Lola & the Boy Next Door . Characters from both books make cameos in this book as well. Josh is a secondary character in Anna & the French Kiss , but here he gets a (sort of) starring role. I loved Anna and Lola; unfortunately I did not love Isla. In some ways she might be the character I relate to the most, but her complete and total obsession with Josh made the story seem kind of flat. At times this book almost felt like it was Fatal Attraction instead of the You've Got Mail vibe I've gotten from Perkin's other books. I missed the humor, I missed the secondary cha...
