So until further notice Monday's will be Book's I did not finish.
Now I know what you're thinking. There can't be that many right? Wrong! There are a lot, but it won't just be books I did not finish it will also be series I gave up on. So with out further ado here is the first book I did not finish! (Which actually is a complete contradiction because it's a series I gave up on)
The Maze Runner Trilogy by James Dashner
I have never owned up to not finishing this series and I mean never. Why? Because it's so popular and so many people love it, it just feels weird that I hated it. I am of the opinion that it is vastly over hyped. I mean it's a New York Times Best-seller, that had to count for something, but apparently not. This book (Maze Runner) according to Good Reads is recommended for fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent! Are kidding me? Really? I love Hunger Games, I freaking ADORED Divergent (it's one of my favourite books) Maze Runner in my personal opinion is not in the same league as those two series, I'm sorry it just isn't.
So let's learn a bit about the book, here we go with the synopsis/ blurb:
"When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he's not alone. When the lift's doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade - a large open expanse surrounded by stone walls.
Just like Thomas, the Gladers don't know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they've closed tight. And every thirty days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.
Thomas was expected. But the next day a girl is sent up - the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers.
Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind."
Now if we are being totally honest here that synopsis didn't make me want to read this book at all. It sounded okay, but nothing special. Yet I bought it anyway, I mean the first time I picked up The Hunger Games I didn't think it was my cup of tea and I ended up staying up until 5 am to finish reading it so I thought maybe it will be the same with this. I was wrong. The book wasn't even okay, it was mediocre at best I wasn't intrigued, the scenes in the maze didn't get my heart racing, I didn't find 'the creepers' all that creepy. It was just a plain old mediocre read that if I could go back in time I would tell myself not to buy.
One thing I don't think I've ever told you guys that read my blog (I may have done, things slip my mind a lot) is that I go through my book reading with one general rule. If nothing of interest has happened 100 pages in then it is not worth my time. I feel this is plenty of time to set your story and introduce your characters, I mean there has to be something exciting going on when you hit around page 100, and to be fair to Maze Runner, something did happen, so despite feeling a little bored I persevered and by the time I had finished the book I wished I hadn't. I'd give Maze Runner maybe 2 stars at best, if I'm feeling generous but it just wasn't one of those books that gripped me. Honestly I didn't even like the main character, he just seemed really annoying and boring to me.
Now then the other two books in this series, The Scorch Trials, I think I read maybe 2 chapters and never picked it up again. I don't know if I was busy and just forgot about it or if I made a subconscious effort to find something to do other than finishing reading it. Either way it sat on my desk at uni until I moved home for the summer where it has been sat in my book shelf untouched until I pulled it out for the picture.
So The Death Cure, I never read it. Now your probably wondering why I own it if I never read it. Well The truth is I had heard so many good things about this series so I wanted to buy them all I just never got round to it. Then whilst on my lunch break at Uni one afternoon I went into an outlet shop call The Works, they were selling the entire series for something ridiculous like £3.99 so I just couldn't pass it up and bought the entire series then and there. So I can't really say I regret buying them because I paid less than £2 each for them.
Now then I have seen on Good Reads (that website I frequent a lot and am kind of addicted to) that the Scorch Trials is the highest rated of the series. And honestly when I read the blurb for the Scorch Trials it sucked me in and I couldn't wait to read it, then I finished Maze Runner and because that one bored me to tears I could never really convince myself to read on any further so now here is your chance to convince me,
what's your opinion do you like The Maze Runner series? Let me know in the comments and lets see if you can convince to me buckle down and finish this series! Rest assured if I do decide to finish it you will see a series review, but only if I finish all 3. I can't promise I'll read the Kill Order too, that might just be too much to ask.
see you next time.
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You should really give the scorch trials a chance. It has a much faster pace and a couple parts made me scared to sleep at night. I really enjoyed this trilogy.
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