Dashner's writing has significantly improved from The Maze Runner, with effective diction and sentence structure, and already exhilarating his audience with an expeditious fast-paced narration. The first thing that I noticed right away is that the beginning chapters are already jam-packed with my most sought after starting action, laced with immediate mystery. Possibly the entire series, but I may be going a little too far fetched with that thought, considering that I haven't read the third book yet. The first one was sort of daring in a limited level, and it candidly wasn't a personal favorite of mine, but The Scorch Trials have managed to alter my opinion about the series.

Upon starting The Scorch Trials by James Dashner, the second installment in The Maze Runner series, I fully admit that I was a little ambivalent about the book. Thomas can only wonder-does he hold the secret of freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED? And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. The Gladers are far from finished with running. Government has disintegrated-and with it, order-and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim.

Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.

The scorch trials novel