A review by sarahetc
The Maze Runner by James Dashner

2.0

Pretend I wrote a lot of words about decent worldbuilding for a book that obviously got specced to publishers as The Next Post-Apocalyptic YA Phenomenon. Because it just reads like one, long prospectus. I dig that you can't do a lot of character development when nobody remembers who they were outside your tiny, poorly functioning maze world. But conflicts do seem to happen with predictable factions taking predictable sides, so maybe go with that?

Or don't. Make it the 120 page short story it clearly started as and just let us enjoy it without the endless repetition of Basic Emotional Vocabulary - Teen Boy Edition and the sentence fragments.

Only four more to go!