The Maze Cutter - James Dashner, Raoul Mascarenhas

I went into this book hoping against hope for a satisfactory ending to the Maze Runner trilogy. I must say that I did find some sense of fulfilment over what happened when Thomas and the others walked through the portal to the island. And while James Dashner briefly covered what happened in the 73 years between The Death Cure and The Maze Cutter it is satisfactory enough that I found piece.

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Now, time for the negatives. I really enjoyed The Maze Runner the first time I read it and in particular enjoyed the way that we as the reader were thrust into an unfamiliar atmosphere, this was amplified by the fact that Thomas, who the story centres on, also had no idea what this new univers was and the gladers having to explain it to him meant they were explaining to us. My complaint here is that James dashner seems to redefine the univers every new book. Why does everything have to change every time?

My other complaint is that James Dashner doesn't seem to be able to write people entirely acuratly, especially in an emotional way. These people are going through the most traumatising events of their lives and they just kind of.... shake it of. What bothers me the most is that this story happened over a period of a couple months and these people just barely know each other and just sort of accept what's going down, they don't really make much of an effort to attempt to understand what's going on around them. Altogether they are just badly written.

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Would I read it again? Maybe not for a couple years at least but I'm definitely re-reading The Maze Runner and can't wait to read the next two books in The Maze Cutter trilogy.