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...
Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris This is the fourth book in the Harper Connelly series. I accidentally started reading this series with book 3, but it read well enough and the premise was good so I was hooked. After that book, I had to read about how Harper's story ended, so I checked this one out right away. Unfortunately, her story ends on kind of a boring note. The premise of the series is this: Harper Connelly was struck by lightning when she was a teenager, and now she can find dead bodies and determine how the person died. Harper travels with her step-brother Tolliver making money off of her talent and helping people solve mysteries of lost loved ones. Harper is also hoping to solve her own mystery...the mystery of what happened to her older sister Cameron who went missing 8 years ago. In this book Harper is called in by the wealthy Joyce family to help determine if their grandfather died of natural causes, or if something else was afoul. ...
