10/12/10

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner


Title: The Scorch Trials

Author: James Dashner

Publisher: Delacorte

Release Date: October 12, 2010

ISBN: 978-0385738750

Size: 368 pages, Hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: The Maze Runner

Read Chapter 1.


Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to. In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety . . . until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.

Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. 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 . . . and meal.

The Gladers are far from finished with running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.

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?

3 Reviews:

Inspired Kathy said...

Yeah! I didn't realize today was the day this came out!!

Chantele Sedgwick said...

I really need to read this. I loved The MazeRunner and can't wait to find out what happens next. It was such a crazy, twisted book, I'm sure this on will be the same. :)

Taffy said...

I read this book the week it came out. It's the book that put me over the edge of not reading a trilogy until all three books were published! James has amazing ideas and writing skills.