The Death Cure (Maze Runner, #3) Review
Star Rating: ★★★✰✰ (3 out of 5 Stars)
Foreword and Warning. There will be spoilers. If you haven't read the Maze Runner trilogy, I suggest turning around, buying all three, and coming back here to read this review. If the series is spoiled for you after reading this review, it shouldn't be--you should have already read all three of the books.
Okay, time for this review.
First off--what the hell? Honestly, that's my entire thought process throughout the entire book. What the hell is going on?? Why are people dying?? Thomas, why are you such a freaking idiot?? All of which will still remained unanswered. Going back to Maze Runner, I found Thomas extremely annoying and I wanted to stab my eyes out with butter knives...but the plot line was interesting so I kept reading. Then it came down to the Scorch Trials and the craving for butter knives switched to the craving for butcher knives as the story began to rear itself towards utter convolution. I honestly was so confused and was left wondering "How does this even lead to a cure??"
Then came the Death Cure. By know I was aching to know how this all was necessary, ethical, and would lead to success with curing the Flare. Well, I don't think that really got answered. We figure out that WICKED are a group of psychologists working together to construct a cure for the Flare--by sending people through trials to scan brainwave patterns and thus, constructing the blueprint for the cure. How about this: why not just use a EEG or fMRI (since you're such great psychologists) and measure the brainwave frequencies and patterns that way? Yet, instead you send them through deathly trials to monitor their behaviors? So, is this a naturalistic observation or not? I'm confused. If it were, the environment would have to be a normal, natural environment.
This leads me to another thing. This entire experiment is completely unethical and would be against APA's ethic codes...but I'm guessing since it's a dystopian novel, the APA has collapsed and WICKED can do whatever they want because a psychological branch can somehow manage to be the government. No explanations anywhere...
Then here comes poignant Thomas, here to save the day with his godawful decisions. Seriously, wtf? Thomas has made the worst decisions in history of worst decisions and yet somehow WICKED needs his brain to help save humankind? No, that just doesn't work. Obviously his frontal lobe is not fully developed--it's most likely way underdeveloped. He cannot be the chosen one for WICKED. Yet, he has to be because PROTAGONIST! Convolution everywhere and pieces that will never and should never fit together, attempted to fit together, thus creating the Maze Runner trilogy.
and yeah, I'm not even gonna give my thoughts on the ending because I think you can tell what I felt about that.
On a happier note, if you did enjoy the Maze Runner trilogy--please make sure to keep in mind that this is just my opinion. Obviously many people like this series, but I'm the 1% who doesn't get why. It's just my opinion. If you enjoyed it, great! We have different perspectives and none of them are superior! Enjoy it or you didn't. :)
