If you’ve read my review on the Maze Runner, you’ll realize that I share the same feelings: Oh, what a marvellous, breathtaking read.

Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end, it meant freedom, it meant a normal life, but WICKED has other plans for the gladers and Phase Two is just beginning. After escaping the Maze and being rescued by what they thought were terrorists, the gladers feel a sense of safety for the first time only to panic all over again a couple of hours later. Now Teresa has disappeared, she has been ripped out of Thomas’s mind, the gladers have been infected with the Flare and a strange man delivers a mission to these boys: Thomas and his friends have to make it through the Scorch, the most burned-out section in the world, alive in order to get the cure for the Flare. The problem is now there would be no help, no supplies, no rules. But this time, the gladers are not alone, there is another group, Group B, who are determined to kill them to save themselves. This is mainly what the book is about. To tell you more would mean to spoil you. So this review would not take too long.

I’ll start telling you something about the author’s writing, but let me just copy and paste what I wrote in my first review, because I still think the same and I’m sure it’ll never change: “Regarding the writing style, I found myself really enjoying it. Dashner has a wonderful way of narrating events and his descriptions are full and concise, he doesn’t add unnecessary words, something I fully love. Moreover, I adore authors who manage to keep the tension towards the last sentences of a chapter, making your heart stop once you’ve read the last phrase, and he achieves it completely!”

To start with, this book was literal AMAZEMENT in all the possible senses of that word. James Dashner just takes your heart from your chest and tosses it against a wall and when you think he is going to give it back to you, he just tosses it again, without mercy. He’s so mean, but I love him and I’m going to buy his books, ALL his books, forever and ever, until one of us dies. Many people claim that The Scorch is not as good as its predecessor, that it changed the whole idea presented there, but, in my opinion, both of them are fabulous in their own way and what James narrated in this second part was just awesome. The author has created such a magnificent dystopia and has developed a group of characters that are all unique separately. And Teresa. Oh, Teresa. The reason why many people didn’t like this book was because of her. But let me tell you something: be prepared to love her even when it doesn’t seem right, because WICKED IS GOOD.

Thank you for reading! Kisses.

Annabelle.