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...
16 year old Cat has set out to find out what happened to her former best friend Patrick. Patrick was attacked one night and brutally beaten. Most people in town are sympathetic, but none too quick to actually look for the culprit because Patrick is gay, and many in his and Cat's Southern home don't look too kindly on that "lifestyle". Cat has to take on the entire town, and search through secrets she might not want to know, all in hopes of finding justice for her friend. The setting in this book is amazingly well done. The only problem I had is that originally I thought it was a historical fiction novel, but then as I read I realized it was set in present day. The decay of Cat's small town is portrayed straight forward, but also very touchingly. The mystery of who attacked Patrick isn't too hard to figure out. And it is kind of painful to go through Cat dealing with her own issues of a sexual assault that happened to her years ago. The fact that...
