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I bought this book based on a recommendation on Twitter and although I did enjoy it and would recommend it to you guys, i n my opinion this book has it’s ups and downs. The books strengths are its strong characterisation and interesting concept. T he characters were really well designed and fleshed out, from angry Lamb to crazy Arkle and the book starts out with a really interesting plot idea, but sadly for me, it just didn’t quite live up to the hype. The book's opening had this really ominous feeling and loads of interesting questions, like who opened the box and why are dead animals coming back to life?  But, when I got the answer I found it a bit anti-climactic and not really as exciting as I had hoped. However, I would rate this book a solid 8/10 because it was such an interesting plot, the initial suspense was great and sense of foreboding was genuinely creepy.

I am guessing that is not going to be a popular post.... 😁 I watched the first two Lord Of The Rings movies and although I thought there were some pretty cool battle scenes (Helm's Deep), they were a bit long and some bits dragged. I had never read the books though, so, when I was given some old hardback copies, I chose them for my summer holiday reading when we went on holiday two years ago. Big mistake. Not only did the books weigh a ton and filled all my bag, but nobody warned me that they were actually really boring. In two weeks, I only managed to read a few hundred pages of the Fellowship Of The Ring and all they did was talk about stuff. There's no way I could read a whole book of that, let alone three! I had to end up buying some emergency books on my Kindle and ended up reading Plague by Michael Grant (from the Gone series) about 6 million times instead. To be frank, I nearly left the Lord Of The Rings in France. I know the books are meant to be classics and som...

The Maze Runner is the first in a series of books set in a dystopian future. It begins with main character Thomas being transported by the box into The Glade, a community of around 70 young boys, surrounded by a maze. All newcomers have had their memories wiped by the Creators who have put them there, but  they have established a community over time  and are trying to find a way through the maze which is full of horrible beasts called the Grievers. To the Gladers shock, a girl is transported in to the Glade with  a warning that she will be the last person ever to be brought and then falls into a coma. When she wakes up however, bad things start to happen. First the sun disappears, then the box no longer brings up supplies and finally the Grievers are let loose into the Glade. As the Gladers are killed one by one,  Thomas desperately has to find a way to escape the maze before the Grievers take him too. I love dystopian books so this one was a big hit right from t...