The Maze Runner: Book One of the Maze Runner Series

This book was immaturely executed to the point where you can hear the author's thesaurus as he's trying to find a synonym, and then hear the thump as he tosses the thesaurus aside, giving up and just writing the same word again, but this time, in italics. There is no soul, no feeling, no in depth plot and not one page of writing that will immerse you in the story. This book bored me all the way through, and I'm not even curious for the rest of the series. Try the CHAOS WALKING series. It's actually good.

I haven't watched the movie yet, so I came in unbiased (except for people telling me the movie was cool). The book starts off decent enough; mysterious and exciting. However, it quickly devolves into a confusing, obviously-targeted-at-young-adults mish mash of unanswered questions. I probably would not have read this book if I had known it was going to end with a cliff-hanger. I also don't think the google rating was fair. Definitely not 4.5 stars or whatever it's at now. I'll give it 2.

... but it wasn't good, either. The action was interesting but the plot was stupid enough to need a slap upside the head. Later books solve this problem, if you can force yourself through them... but then it's the action that gets boring (reading about tunnels in the second book is like trying to get out of the forest in LoTR). Couldn't win with this series.