The Kill Order

About halfway through I realized I was done with this book, but I read all the way through. I wasn't hoping it would get better, I just had to finish it. The Maze Runner was really good. Really, really good and I would say that I wished it was a stand alone novel, but it did leave you on a cliffhanger and the story was a lot more than could be summed up in just one book I suppose. But it wasn't until The Scorch Trials that I realized Dashner's writing wasn't that fantastic. By the time I got to The Death Cure I really didn't like anyone anymore.

But The Kill Order was a prequel and I thought I would want to know how it all began. What I didn't think about was how depressing it would be. I mean, we already know things don't end up going so great for those who were around when the flares began. So the whole time I wasn't wondering if Trina and Mark and their friends would die, I was wondering when.

So the first half was okay, but then the writing started to fall apart. Conversations he added just to fill in the time were stilted and strange. People don't talk like that, especially not people in dire situations. By the end of the book I was tempted just to skip ahead and see how it ended. Pages upon pages of fighting crazed people. Punching, kicking, scratching...twice we had to read about Mark almost falling out of THE SAME WINDOW. Well, maybe not the same one, but still.

It just wasn't good. I wish I had stopped reading after The Maze Runner.