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Divine Rivals: The Letters of Enchantment Book #1 Summary & Review

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Divine Rivals: The Letters of Enchantment Book #1 Summary & Review

Detailed Summary (Spoilers)

Divine Rivals takes place in a fantasy world with WWI vibes, where gods war, buildings are enchanted, and magical typewriters form mysterious connections.

Iris Winnow is an eighteen-year-old reporter working to support herself and her mother.

Iris’s brother, Forest, followed the goddess Enva’s call to fight in the war, and he has not been heard from since he left. Iris’s mother, Aster, turned to drinking after his departure, eventually losing her job. It was for this reason Iris has to drop out of school and go to work, breaking her promise to her brother to stay in school.

At the Oath Gazette, Iris is competing for a columnist position against her wealthy coworker, nineteen-year-old Roman Kitt.

Kitt is at the newspaper because his father refused to send him to school to study literature as he wanted. In his father’s mind, making columnist will prove much more advantageous. Iris and Kitt fight for every story, pull pranks on each other, and generally tolerate the other’s existence while at work. Iris believes Kitt will eventually get the job because his father has money and power while she has no such connections. She also suspects that her boss, Zeb Autry, is being told not to report on certain things about the war.

Iris and Kit were both given a typewriter by their grandmothers. For weeks, Iris has been writing letters to her brother, and they disappear under the wardrobe until, finally, one day, someone writes back saying they are not her brother Forest. It’s Kitt, and he knows it’s Iris’s letters he is receiving, but she doesn’t know it’s him. He does not tell her. He gives her his middle name, Carver.

Over time, as the two compete at work, Iris begins to have a sort of love/hate relationship with Kitt while also developing feelings for her pen pal, Carver (also Kitt).

Kitt’s father has arranged a marriage for him to a woman named Elinore Little, the daughter of a wealthy chemist. Neither of them wants to be with the other, but she seems more resigned to it than he does. Iris learns about Kitt’s engagement, and things take a turn when Iris learns her mother, Aster, has tragically died. Iris abruptly leaves work, and Kitt, worried, brings her jacket to her house. She is mortified for him to see where she lives and doesn’t want his pity. She doesn’t tell him or anyone about her mother.

Zeb gives Kitt the columnist job. Numb, Iris immediately resigns. Kit tries to stop her and even tries to persuade their boss to give them both more time, revealing that he knows about Iris’s mom’s death. She refuses and takes a job at the Inkridden Tribune, where she becomes a war correspondent. Her hope is that she will find her brother.

Iris discovers that her typewriter was a set of three Alouette typewriters that were made and named after a sick girl, and two of them were given to her friends so they could communicate. One of the friends was Iris’s Nan, and Carver’s Nan was the other.

Iris is sent to Avalon Bluff, where she lives with a woman named Marisol at her bed and breakfast along with another war correspondent, Attie. She spends her days working with, interviewing, and writing letters for injured soldiers, as well as planting a garden with her new friends. She writes to her pen pal, who she still doesn’t know is Kitt, though she lets him know where she is. She learns about the war and Dacre’s monsters that terrorize the town.

One day, as the sirens are blaring, Kitt arrives, walking across the field. She rushes to him to make him lie down to hide from the bomb-dropping eithrals flying overhead, saving him. He has called off his engagement and quit his new columnist job. He is a newly appointed war correspondent, and Iris is irritated he is here, assuming he is only trying to show her up again.
Kit, however, only came to find her.

He continues writing to her as Carver, trying to get to know her while looking for the right opportunity to tell her the truth. He finally writes a letter admitting that he is Carver, but before she can read it, they are both sent to the front lines to report. While in the trenches, Kitt saves Iris from a grenade and takes shrapnel in his leg.

Shaken, they return to Avalon Bluff, where Iris learns the truth: Carver and Kitt are one and the same. He has confessed his love to her, but she is embarrassed and retreats. But eventually, she returns to him, and they make up and decide to get married.

Soon after this decision, the sirens blare, telling them that Dacre’s forces are closing in. Marisol’s wife Keegan arrives with her platoon to help defend the city and evacuate the citizens.
Iris receives a letter stating her brother’s whereabouts. He is likely to come through Avalon Bluff, so Iris decides to stay. Though injured, Kitt determines to stay as well. Kitt and Iris get married in the garden, having one night before Dacre’s forces arrive.

Divine Rivals Ending (Extreme Spoilers)

They wake to Dacre’s bombs shaking the city. When it eases, they go out to help the injured. While out, the eithrals arrive, dropping poisonous gas. Kit and Iris get separated until Kitt, wearing a gas mask, finds her and drags her away to the field. She quickly realizes it’s not Kitt, it’s her brother Forest. He forces her away, leaving Kitt to the gas. Later, they go back to look for Kitt, but he is gone.

Iris and Forest travel back to Oath. Iris learns that Forest was mortally injured in the war, but Dacre found him and healed him, forcing him afterward to fight for his army rather than Enva’s. Forest barely found the strength to get away after finding their mother’s locket in the trench where Iris lost it. His only goal was to get her to safety.

In the end, we learn that as Dacre walked the fields around Avalon Bluff after his troops secured the city, he stumbled upon Kitt who is minutes from dying but still fighting his way toward Iris. Dacre grants him life, saying his spirit is made of ice. He takes Kitt below to the underworld to become his first war correspondent.

This book ends on a cliffhanger for the next, and last, book in the series: Ruthless Vows.

My Thoughts

I actually really loved this book and, although it starts out a bit slow, it gets really interesting and pulls you in. I think that both Iris’s and Roman’s strength and diligence are really shown and incorporated perfectly. I also really believe that the writing in this book is incredible and the use of metaphors and emotion really draws you into the story as if you were living it.

Quotes

  • “I never told you that I love you. And I regret that, most of all.”
  • “Fear is the enemy that holds us back from reaching our true potential.”
  • “I love the words I write until I soon realize how much I hate them, as if I am destined to always be at war within myself.”
  • “I don’t think you realize how strong you are, because sometimes strength isn’t swords and steel and fire, as we are so often made to believe. Sometimes it’s found in quiet, gentle places.”‘
  • “Iris,” said Roman, “you are worthy of love. You are worthy to feel joy right now, even in the darkness. And just in case you’re wondering…I’m not going anywhere, unless you tell me to leave, and even then, we might need to negotiate.”
  • ’“I think we all wear armor. I think those who don’t are fools, risking the pain of being wounded by the sharp edges of the world, over and over again. But if I’ve learned anything from those fools, it is that to be vulnerable is a strength most of us fear. It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are. Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.”’

Divergent – Review

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Divergent – Review

Divergent by Veronica Roth is a Dystopian Romance book about a sixteen-year-old girl named Beatrice Prior who is in Abnegation, one of the five factions in her society. The five factions include Abnegation, the selfless, Amity, the kind, Candor, the honest, Erudite, the intelligent, and Dauntless, the brave. She has to take an aptitude test to see which faction she best fits in with, but when she takes the test, her results come out differently. She tested and had an aptitude for three factions, Abnegation, Erudite, and Dauntless. She is Divergent, and she must keep it secret, even from her loved ones. The next day, she has to pick her faction. Which one will she pick? She’s not quite right for Abnegation, and that’s the faction she grew up in. When the time comes, where will she spill her blood?

 

Sample

On page eleven of the book it says, 

“My gaze drifts from Susan to the Dauntless tables across the room. They are laughing and shouting and playing cards. At another set of tables, the Erudite chatter over books and newspapers, in constant pursuit of knowledge. 

A group of Amity girls in yellow and red sit in a circle on the cafeteria floor, playing some kind of hand-slapping game involving a rhyming song. Every few minutes I hear a chorus of laughter from them as someone is eliminated and has to sit in the center of the circle. At the table next to them, Candor boys make wide gestures with their hands. They appear to be arguing about something, but it must not be serious, because some of them are still smiling. 

At the Abnegation table, we sit quietly and wait. Faction customs dictate even idle behavior and supersede individual preference. I doubt that all the Erudite want to study all the time, or that every Candor enjoys a lively debate, but they can’t defy the norms of their factions any more than I can.”

 

Highlights

Divergent is amazing because it is extremely realistic with the character’s sensations and emotions, as well as the fighting. When reading this book, you feel like you become the character, and that it’s real. Additionally, the book is never boring, there is always something keeping you hooked. This makes it so that you want to keep on reading it. As well as being very realistic, and interesting, this book makes it so that you can relate to what’s happening in the story, by having things that are similar to things in the real world. For example, the simulations in the book are like a combination of a sleep study, and dreaming in real life. Another example could be that the Dauntless sleeping quarters are a lot like military dormitories. This book combines action/adventure and dystopian/romance, making a fun combination for those who like both genres.

 

Rating

I give Divergent a nine out of ten because it is a fun and interesting read, as well as very realistic in terms of the setting, and how the characters perform actions, as well as the character’s feelings and emotions. The only bad thing that I have to say about this book is that it is a bit graphic as far as gore and romance goes. 

 

Things Like This 

Things like this include the rest of the Divergent series, which includes Insurgent by Veronica Roth, Allegiant by Veronica Roth, and Four by Veronica Roth. Other similar books include The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Uglies by Scott Westerfield, The Selection by Kiera Cass, Legend by Marie Lu, and Courier’s Daughter by C.J. Redwine.

 

Review: Ranger’s Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan

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Review: Ranger’s Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan

Ranger’s Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan is a fantasy adventure book that was first released on July 16th, 2005. It follows an orphan boy named Will in the Castle Redmont Ward, who doesn’t fit in. When it is time for his Choosing Day, none of the mentors choose him. But on this choosing day, one of the mysterious Rangers is there, and he puts a paper on the Baron’s desk, supposedly about Will. That night, Will wants to see what is on that paper, so he sneaks into the Baron’s office. He gets caught by the Ranger! What will his punishment be? He goes to the Baron, and the Baron says that he got accepted as a Ranger’s Apprentice. As he starts his apprenticeship, what challenges will he face, what adventures will he go on? 

 

Sample

A sample from the start of the book’s first chapter, 

“TRY TO EAT SOMETHING, WILL. TOMORROW’S A BIG DAY, after all” 

Jenny, blond, pretty and cheerful, gestured toward Will’s barely touched plate and smiled encouragingly at him. Will made an attempt to return the smile, but it was a dismal failure. He picked at the plate before him, piled high with his favorite foods. Tonight, his stomach knotted tight with tension and anticipation, he could hardly bring himself to swallow a bite. 

Tomorrow would be a big day, he knew. He knew it all too well, in fact. Tomorrow would be the biggest day of his life, because tomorrow was the Choosing Day and it would determine how he spent the rest of his life.”

 

Highlights

I love Ranger’s Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan because it always has something capturing your interest and imagination, whether it’s friendships, experiences, challenges, or adventures. This book engages you with the characters, and you can connect with their experiences, even though this book is set in medieval times. The characters’ emotions are super realistic, relating to what their experiences are. You feel like you are the character when reading this because John Flanagan does a really good job describing feelings and thoughts. When reading this book, you become invested in what happens to the characters, and this leads to you not wanting to put it down. This book has a lot of realism when it comes to the setting and the fighting scenes. The characters have a realistic sense to them, they are not larger than life, and they don’t seem fake. Another thing that is great about this book is that it can be enjoyed by any audience old enough to read it. This is because it isn’t written in a way that makes it seem like it’s for a younger audience or an older audience. When you are younger, it is fun to read and interesting. When you get older, you can read it and have a much better understanding of the characters and their actions, because you better understand the words and what is happening in the story. 

 

Rating

Ranger’s Apprentice The Ruins of Gorlan gets a 10 out of 10 from me because of its adventurous story and interesting plot. I don’t have anything bad to say about it and enjoyed reading it.

Things Like This

If you enjoyed this book, read the rest of the series, which includes Book 2: The Burning Bridge, Book 3: The Icebound Land, Book 4: Battle for Skandia, Book 5: The Sorcerer of the North, Book 6: The Siege of Macindaw, Book 7: Erak’s Ransom, Book 8: The Kings of Clonmel, Book 9: Halt’s Peril, Book 10: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja, Book 11: The Lost Stories, and Book 12: The Royal Ranger. I recommend reading in the order of The Early Years: 1-2, main series: books 1-4, book 7, 8-12, The Royal Ranger. 

Other books similar to this include Brotherband by John Flanagan, Fablehaven and Dragonwatch by Brandon Mull, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, and The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.

The Hunger Games – Review

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The Hunger Games – Review

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a dystopian romance book about a sixteen year old girl named Katniss Everdeen. In her society, there are twelve districts, and every year each district has to sacrifice a boy and a girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to the capitol to fight in the Hunger Games. This year, at the seventy fourth annual Hunger Games, Katniss’ sister gets drawn, and Katniss volunteers to take her place. She would rather put herself in danger than let her sister, her innocent sister, get slaughtered. She knows that it is possible to survive because she is a hunter. She knows how to use a bow, and how to fight. She has to win these games. She has to win, to survive for her sister. She has to win, to protect her family. How will she survive? Will she make friends along the way?

Sample:

In The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins, on page 5 it says, 

“Even though trespassing in the woods is illegal and poaching carries the severest of penalties, more people would risk it if they had weapons. But most are not bold enough to venture out with just a knife. My bow is a rarity, crafted by my father along with a few others that I keep well hidden in the woods, carefully wrapped in waterproof covers. My father could have made good money selling them, but if the officials found out he would have been publicly executed for inciting a rebellion. Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they’re as hungry for fresh meat as anybody is. In fact, they’re among our best customers. But the idea that someone might be arming the Seam would never have been allowed.”

 

Highlights

I loved reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins because it was interesting. It was interesting because there was always a challenge, or a conflict, on every single page, never leaving you bored. Because it was interesting, it made you keep wanting to read more, and not want to put it down. I also liked that you could understand the character’s motives and emotions. Additionally, because you understand the character’s motives and emotions, you can understand why they do the things that they do, and you can understand why they do their actions. For example, when Gale makes fun of the Capitol, and the people in it, you can see why he says that, and why he feels that way. Another example would be Katniss volunteering for her sister, you can see why she would do that, and why she feels so anguished at the thought of her sister in the Hunger Games.

 

Rating

I give The Hunger Games a nine out of ten because it was interesting to read, you could understand the character’s motives and emotions, and their actions because of that. The only bad thing that I have to say about this book is that it is gory in the way of the fighting and violence in it.

Things Like This

If you liked this book, you should check out the rest of the series. The rest of the series includes the second book, Catching Fire, the third book, Mockingjay, and the prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Other books like this include Divergent, by Veronica Roth, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, The Moon Dwellers by David Estes, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling, Uglies by Scott Westerfield, and Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan.

What actually happened during “The Conjuring”

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What actually happened during “The Conjuring”

The events of the “Conjuring” can be a bit misunderstood. You might have seen the movies but they are almost completely fiction. so I am going to tell you the story of what happened in 1971 with the Perron family in their house. What happened to them and why did it happen.

 

The Beginning

 

The beginning dates back to 1675 going back to the King Philip’s War that lasted from 1675-1678. The King Philip’s War was a war where Colonists relentlessly wanted more land from Native tribes. When they wouldn’t give land they went to war with tribes like the  Narragansett, Wampanoag and many smaller tribes. The property that the house was on was “One of the bloodiest battles during King Philip’s War.” When one of the Perrons’ daughters heard from a spirit that there were 7 dead soldiers in the wall. Later they found 5 bodies around the property.

 

The “Dark Times”

 

The “Dark times” happened in around the 1830s-1870s when someone named Bathsheba Sherman who was believed to be a witch because of the things she was accused of. She was accused of murdering babies with sewing needles at night. After Bathsheba Sherman died, “her malevolent supposedly haunted the house.” The house was already home to a bunch of tragedies like the King Philip’s War but what bathsheba sherman was accused of added a lot of more stuff to this property. Probably a lot more haunted stuff

 

The Hauntings

 

In June of 1970, Carolyn Perron found a farmhouse by accident. In December of 1970, the Perrons bought the house and on January 11th, 1971, Roger and Carolyn Perron with their kids Andrea, Nancy, Christine, Cynthia, and April moved into a 3109 square foot house over an 8 acre property in Harrisville, Rhode Island. They had just moved in the house, and stuff already started to happen. 

 

Throughout the 10 years that the Perrons lived here, they had experienced the paranormal in a way that has never been seen before from them. They were being scratched and tugged and touched and one of the kids would see the spirits haunting throughout the night some nights when they lived there. Sometimes the beds of the children would get pulled and the family would get harassed constantly by spirits.

 

All of these things led to demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren to investigate the house. They did a bunch of stuff like putting jingle bells on door handles and put microphones throughout the house to listen for paranormal stuff

 

In 1973, Carolyn Perron was acting really strange and the rest of the family didn’t know what to do. She had become really weird and the family was scared. The family thought she was possessed so they got Ed and Lorraine Warren. Since Ed Warren was a Priest, he performed an exorcism on her.

 

The Exorcism

 

The exorcism would take place in the Living room in which Carolyn Perron was tied up in a chair and Ed Warren started the exorcism. While Ed was doing the exorcism, it happened. The chair that Carolyn Perron was on was levitated and thrown 25 feet to the other room. The family was in shock and thought she was dead. Roger Perron was so mad at Ed and he kicked them out.

 

Present Day

 

Many people have investigated the house and the property trying to find out what happened, how it happened, and why it happened. Out of the many people who have investigated and how much they investigated, we know a bit more about why everything happened, who caused it, and why they wanted to do it.

Shatter Me Book Review

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Shatter Me Book Review

Have you heard of the book series Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi? Well, it’s a dystopian romance published on November 15th, 2011 and whether you have heard of it or not this is a complete breakdown and honest review of why I think you should read the series. 

The Plot

When it comes to the novel’s setting, there is no way I’ll ever fully understand the actual world that the author created. I know that it takes place in an area that fell to a takeover and that now a new government has taken control, and a rebellious group is hoping to rise and fight against the new government that is currently in place. All of this somehow managed to happen within the little while that Juliette was locked up, which is where Shatter Me starts. This means that she doesn’t necessarily understand the world around her when she ends up free.  

I’ve never been a massive fan of the guy-falling-first plot solely because authors who write from a female character’s point of view and have the love interest fall first often do it too quickly, making it feel like Cinderella all over again. What I mean by that is in Cinderella, Prince Charming falls for her even though he barely knows her, and this becomes some undying love. I know this isn’t real life, but it still gets on my nerves when love occurs at first sight without knowing who the love interest is. So when I started reading Shatter Me, I was annoyed that the main character almost immediately had two men all over her, sparking up a love triangle in a matter of chapters. This, although it wasn’t my favorite thing, was actually what kept me so invested in the first book.

Although Tahereh Mafi does try to explain why the initial love interest fell so quickly for Juliette, expressing that he had known her since she was little. This knocked my annoyed self out of the ballpark as I no longer had any reason to complain about the character’s ‘sudden’ love for the main character. Still, with the other love interest, Tahereh keeps the reasons for his quickly growing affection hidden. I didn’t understand his reasons for loving the main character so suddenly until I finished Shatter Me and began reading the novella from Warner’s point of view during the first book. The novella helped me understand his character better. I was 100% on his side during every following conflict because I had dealt with so much of the needed information through the novella. I’ve never enjoyed novellas in the past. However, the novella that came with Shatter Me was extremely helpful and kept me engaged in the story line. I strongly encourage readers to try the novellas along with the novel if they choose to continue the series beyond the first book.

The Characters

The main character, Juliette, can most definitely get on my nerves from time to time, but I think that makes her realistic. We readers never truly acknowledge that the main characters make mistakes along with side characters because we have some idea that the main characters should only follow the path that we want them to follow. I honestly loved Juliette through the first novel because she seemed to have every reason to be acting the way she was. 

Over time, however, she can get tiring. In the second novel, Unravel Me, she is constantly whining and whimpering, throwing major temper tantrums when things in her life aren’t perfect. This is a problem with the second novel, but at the same time, it carries the plot along and leads to other things that kept me warped in the pages of the book. When I reached the second book’s ending, I was worried that she just had a whiny personality, but that concern went away with her massive character development within the first few chapters of the third book, Ignite Me. 

Everyone has mixed views on the characters in Shatter Me. I don’t know exactly who I would choose if someone asked me to pick a favorite character from this series. However, I love the character placed later in the book – Kenji. He seems to have been brought in as a ‘best friend’ for Juliette, and he’s hilarious. As the story went on he became one of my favorite characters in the books due to his odd, yet funny, personality.

The only character I genuinely disliked was Adam. He’s your basic initial love interest who spouts sappy lines and wants to make everything about himself. I strongly disliked Adam due to his constant overreacting and, especially in Unravel and Ignite Me, he was way too annoying, but over time I came to like him. Just like Juliette, Adam had a pretty strong character development and later I didn’t hate him so much, but he is still nowhere close to my favorite character.

Oppositely from my views on Adam, Warner is fantastic. His lines are so great, and his character background is revealed more and more over time, making him more admirable. I don’t know how to explain why I love Warner so much without spoiling anything in the books, but he just puts a smile on my face by appearing in a scene. The characters in Shatter Me have fantastic development and depth, making the books worth reading. 

 The Language/Writing Style

A page of the book with the words 'I am not insane' written and crossed out 145 times
Shatter Me ‘I am not insane’ page in chapter 4

The writing style in the books is so unique. For example, Juliette’s point of view shows her conflicting inner thoughts. As words appear on the pages, things she’s thinking or wishes to say show up, but she denies her thoughts and keeps her intended words to herself. This is shown by the horizontal lines crossing out the words on the paper. I love this because the author put so much thought into it; the title of the book is Shatter Me, and the words in the book are shattered. This is a writing style I had never encountered before, and I thought it would annoy me when starting the book, but it made it so much more enjoyable.

Also, another positive aspect in the writing is the constant use of analogies and metaphors coming from the narrator, Juliette. Her character shows so much depth from the beginning, as the author unravels Juliette’s obsession with numbers and her struggles to figure herself out.

 Final Thoughts

I completely agree with most of the complaints that Shatter Me has received overtime, but I still believe that the positive factors in the books strongly outweigh the negatives. I strongly encourage everyone to try to continue reading Shatter Me. Especially those who are looking for a more romance-based dystopian novel.

Book Quotes: 

  • “Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes.”
  • “My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.”
  • “Hope in this world bleeds out of the barrel of a gun.”
  • “One word, two lips, three four five fingers form a fist. One corner, two parents, three four five reasons to hide. One child, two eyes, three four seventeen years of fear. A broken broomstick, a pair of wile faces, angry whispers, locks on my door.”
  • “Hate looks just like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into the semblance of something too passive to punch.”

Five Reasons You Should Read The Maze Runner.

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The Maze Runner is set in the future, a group of teenage boys mysteriously show up into a giant stone maze, with their memory wiped, they have to escape.

At the beginning Thomas shows up in the maze with no memory of where he is or who he is. Strange things start to happen after he shows up, some of the boys who have regained some of their memory seem to remember him and not in a good way. Then Teressa shows up, the only girl in the maze, that’s when people start to accuse Thomas of all the weird things that have come.

Thomas later discovers that the maze is a test given from the creators and the maze isn’t supposed to be solved but instead so the boys had hope to escape.

In the end not all of the boys hadn’t trusted Thomas or Teressa and stayed in the maze, only 10 of them made it out including Teressa and Thomas. When they escaped, they were surrounded by dessert when a helicopter landed and rescued them.

When all the boys were young a disease occurred, killing most of the population. All of the boys were kidnapped from their families. The scientist had found out that the kids were very intelligent and took them to put them through trials to test their brain activity. The scientist found out that some of them were immune to the flare, so they started working to find a cure in the kids. They all grew up learning and being tested on until their biggest trial yet, the maze. 

The first month they sent a group of boys to start off, then sent one kid up per month for three years until Thomas arrived.

Important details of The Maze Runner.

  • In the center of the maze there was a safe area where the boys lived; they called it the Glade and called themselves Gladers.
  • The maze contained these animal/robotic creatures they called “grievers” because of the screeching noise they made at night.
  • Everyone in the Glade had a job to keep order, if you explored the maze you would be a runner; runners have the most important job.
  • If you had gotten stung by a griever you either could regain some of your memory or die.

Five reasons you should read this book.

  •  There is a lot of suspense and mystery. It keeps you engaged, almost like you are sucked into the book.
  • The book talks about themes such as friendship, peer pressure, and problem solving.
  • The lack of knowledge we have makes it more exciting and suspenseful.
  • The movie does not disappoint!
  • The book has a lot of action.

The Maze Runner is a 2009 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner.

If you like this book, some other books to consider reading are:

  • The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau.
  • The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
  • Divergent by Veronica Roth.
  • Uglies by Scott Westerfield.
  • Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
  • The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey.
  • Nemesis by Brendan Reichs.

 

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