When I read it: 31st March 2015 - 21st April 2015
Rating: 4/5
Once I saw there was only a few chapters left, I was reeling in more and more until the bitter end. That was when the book was getting really good.
Reading this series has been a roller-coaster ride for sure. At the beginning I fell in love, I loved the story and idea of the universe James Dashner created but I felt there was something missing. To me a good book needs a good balance of action and the build up to that climatic action. The TMR series lacks this, slightly. I feel like when something was happening and my heart starts racing the pace of the tone picks up a little and then this "big" thing happens and I think to myself, "Was that it?". First hearing about this series, I was pretty damn excited, it was going to be the next big Dystopian novel I was looking for, after reading THG and Divergent, both very similar to one of another if I may add, I felt quite refreshed knowing I'm going to read a Dystopian with a male lead. I loved the series, don't get me wrong, I especially loved this particular one, Death Cure. But, but... It wasn't as good as it was hyped up to be, and I duly understand why people find it slow.
Now let's get to specifics, let's focus on The Death Cure. Previously, I found Scorch Trials dull and a filler until I read the finale, I was worried that TDC would be the same, it would attempt to be this amazing, grand sort of thing to only expose it's true self and be a boring, rushed novel just to be written for the sake of being written.
The start was premature and only until near the end I felt it was getting good, finally turning into the type of novel that's impossible to put down. I felt maybe the ending could of been better to do it justice but it could of been worse.
My whole review has been 90% negative but don't get me wrong it got a 4/5 for a good reason. It's just hard to explain the experience I went through, easier to explain the bad pointers than the good. You just have to go and read it to find out yourself.
Reading this series has been a roller-coaster ride for sure. At the beginning I fell in love, I loved the story and idea of the universe James Dashner created but I felt there was something missing. To me a good book needs a good balance of action and the build up to that climatic action. The TMR series lacks this, slightly. I feel like when something was happening and my heart starts racing the pace of the tone picks up a little and then this "big" thing happens and I think to myself, "Was that it?". First hearing about this series, I was pretty damn excited, it was going to be the next big Dystopian novel I was looking for, after reading THG and Divergent, both very similar to one of another if I may add, I felt quite refreshed knowing I'm going to read a Dystopian with a male lead. I loved the series, don't get me wrong, I especially loved this particular one, Death Cure. But, but... It wasn't as good as it was hyped up to be, and I duly understand why people find it slow.
Now let's get to specifics, let's focus on The Death Cure. Previously, I found Scorch Trials dull and a filler until I read the finale, I was worried that TDC would be the same, it would attempt to be this amazing, grand sort of thing to only expose it's true self and be a boring, rushed novel just to be written for the sake of being written.
The start was premature and only until near the end I felt it was getting good, finally turning into the type of novel that's impossible to put down. I felt maybe the ending could of been better to do it justice but it could of been worse.
My whole review has been 90% negative but don't get me wrong it got a 4/5 for a good reason. It's just hard to explain the experience I went through, easier to explain the bad pointers than the good. You just have to go and read it to find out yourself.
