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A Spoopy Love Affair With Books

Jean, 39, lover of sci-fi, horror and fantasy, reader of comic books, conqueror of genre fiction.

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Wytches Volume 1
Scott Snyder, Jock
Progress: 45 %
Bad Moon Rising
Jonathan Maberry
Progress: 160/534 pages
The Immortal Iron Fist: The Complete Collection Vol. 1
Dave Lanphear, Derek Freidolfs, Tonci Zonjic, Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic, Clay Mann, Dean White, David Aja, Khari Evans, Roy Allan Martinez, Victor Olazaba, Francisco Paronzini, June Chung, Nick Dragotta, Mitch Breitweiser, Javier Rodriguez, Stefano Gaudiano, Dan Brereton, M

Review: The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

— feeling cool
The Scorch Trials - James Dashner

Good that! The extremely rare sequel that far outshines its predecessor. While I saw the promise and potential of The Maze Runner, I thought the execution was lacking. Just a bit. That was fixed her. Perfectly suspenseful, paced and characterized, The Scorch Trials moves the series along dramatically without feeling like a middle installment, a bridge to hold up the first and last part of the entirety of the story.

 

I admit, the setting was more my aesthetic: a burned out city turned into a desert, zombie-like infected, and a personal sense of shifting alliances and heartbreak. It does what almost no sequel, in my opinion, has done successfully and introduces new characters that I actually like and care about, and am able to read about without resenting the fact that they're taking up space and time.

 

Tight, from beginning to end, and surprising in its gray-area morality and decisions. Quite excellent.