The Death Cure Review

If you didnt know, The Death Cure is a book in The Maze Runner trilogy that is about a bunch of test subjects that try to escape for the custody of WICKED.  The reason they are being tested is because sun flares hit the earth and made the disease the flare.  The disease is found in the brain and causes you to slowly go insane and lose control of your self.  Thomas and his friends are immune and are being observed so WICKED can find a cure.  It seems like WICKED is an evil organization with a bad cause, but Thomas and his friends dont know that their goal is not to find a cure.  In The Death Cure and the trilogy in general you learn that Thomas (the main character) is a strong individual becasue he keeps fighting even after loosing many of his friends and the thing that means the most to him, his past.  Throughout the series Thomas wonders why he worked for WICKED before his memory was wiped because he could not see why he would work for WICKED's evil cause. 

I would rate this book 4.5 out of 5 stars becasue it has great suspence, good characters, and a good plot.  The writing style in this book is very suspenseful and has alot of plot twists.  The ending was good, but it did not confirm what was going to happen next and was not very detailed.  I would recommend this book to people who like an action packed book with some mystery and hidden meaning as well.  It is very obvious that the storyline is very well crafted and thought out because many things even from the first book build on the storyline up until the end.  I have enjoyed reading this book and highly recommend it to people looking for a new series.

Why The Maze Runner Was Written

The one question that Thomas keeps rethinking throughout the series is "Why did I join WICKED and make the testing facility, they seem evil"?  He realizes this when he is put to the test that he help assemble.  Not knowing any of his past except his name did not help much either.  Late in the story line he joins a rival group that wants to take WICKED down and he realizes why he was in WICKED in the first place.  From this information you can tell why this series was made and its theme and purpose.

After reading almost all of the series I have realized that the theme is that you should not judge something until you know both sides of the story.  Thomas judged WICKED as evil because they tortured him and changed him after all of the tests they put him through, but he did not remember why he worked for WICKED in the first place.  However at the end of the book he realized that the rebel association he joined was evil because when they raided the WICKED headquarters The Right Arm was willing the blow the whole place up, even with people inside.  He then got a note from WICKED who wanted to save the immunes and make a stronghold.  Once Thomas heard what WICKED's true meaning was, he could never look at them the same again.

Thomas' changes throughout The Death Cure

In the beginning of the book Thomas was very mad at the association he used to work for before he went into testing to find a cure.  WICKED had done a lot to him.  First off after weeks of restless and deadly testing he was locked in a room and isolated from all of his friends for a month.  WICKED tried to control Thomas for evil and make him a murderer and even tried to kill him to get the cure for the flare. "Thomas fought desperately against it, straining to get control of his muscles.  But something foreign had taken over his body" (Dashner 129).   He even joined a group (The Right Arm) who's main purpose was to destroy WICKED.  Thomas had good reasons to hate WICKED and their cause but he would always wonder, Why did I join and work for these people before testing?  However, throughout the story, when more clues pointed to the darkness of The Right Arm, Thomas was on the brink of realizing why he had helped WICKED.

Thomas reentered the WICKED headquarters for a Right Arm mission and he was forced to have fatal surgery for a cure.  He went to sleep thinking it was the end of his life.  He woke up to a letter on a desk in the room from the leader of WICKED.   "I was able to stop the procedure and save your life, we have enough data for the cure... I'm asking you to help all of the immunes and your friends in getting out of this facility and meeting in the flat trans.  Here we will make a stronghold for the immunes" (Dashner 276).  On the other hand, the right hand was going to blow the whole building up whether there were people in it or not.  This really changed Thomas' view from what is was the whole Maze Runner trilogy.  He went on to help the immunes escape and  go through dangerous conditions where living was a roll of the dice.