Book #9

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
158 pages in
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This is the second book of the Maze Runner series, see Book #4, and so far it is amazing and somewhat horrifying at the same time. The boys are taken to a building and Theresa is put into a different room, because she's a girl. The next morning they wake up and the doors are locked so they break down the door. When they get into the common room they see their "rescuers" hung by the neck around the room. Thomas thinks something may be wrong with Theresa because she is not answering him in his head. When they get into her room she is nowhere to be seen. Instead there is a boy named Aris. He is from a group eerily similar to the Gladers but with all girls instead of all boys. The to groups had a parallel experience in the Maze, but more of the girls survived, haha beat that boys! Thomas tries to reach Theresa in his head but all he gets back are some mean comments and it sounds like Theresa doesn't remember him. So they are stuck in this room with no food for about three days. On the third day a man, who they call Rat Man, tells them that they have to complete the second trial and then they will get the cure. And oh yeah they all have this disease that caused the apocalypse or something like that. If they make it across this course into the safe zone they get the cure. The girl group is doing it too, but not with the boys. The desert is so hot and they are running out of food and water. A terrible lightening storm kills seven of the Gladers but they are in the town that they saw in the distance. It is filled with the crazy people who have the disease, the Flare, who call themselves Cranks. Thomas has made a deal with the leader that the Cranks will help the Gladers to the safe place but the Gladers must kill their leader Minho. That's as far as I've gotten so far but I can't wait to read more.
The things that the Creators are doing to these guys are just horrid! They say that they are doing it for the good of the people but I can't see how. They are almost torturing these poor kids and then killing their friends it just makes me mad, yes I know that it's just a story and hasn't happened...yet.