Author: James Dashner
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 360
The Scorch Trials is the second book in a series by James Dashner. This story is set in the future. Global Warming has become very severe, and sections of the earth that used to be inhabitable are now desert. A new disease has also been contracted by humans: the Flare. The Flare is a disease caused by Global Warming, and it attacks the brain. People with the Flare will notice no symptoms for the first few weeks, but after that, you slowly start to deteriorate into insanity until you die. The whole human population will be wiped out unless scientists can figure out how to save them from the terrible disease. In order to do this, the scientists take two groups of 60 boys and 60 girls and put them through many difficult trials. In the first book, "The Maze Runner," the main character is a boy who has to help the rest of the boys in his group escape from the maze. In the second book, "The Scorch Trials," the boys have been told they have contracted the Flare and are given a set of directions they must follow to find the cure. The scientists look for patterns in the teenagers' behaviors to determine which ones are the strongest, and then their plan is to breed them. This book follows the adventures of one of the boys. Although they started out with 60 kids, they are now down to 11 - everyone else has died.
It is so hard to give a proper summary of the book! It is so complicated, and uses so many references to the book before it, that I would have to explain what happened in the first book to give any specific details about stuff that happens in the second. Anyway, this novel is not what I would call a good book, or an enjoyable read...it's more of a gripping one. It is very violent and there are a lot of gruesome deaths. I could not put it down, because it was so compelling. Every second, the main character is in danger, rescuing someone, or being betrayed, and just when you think everything's going to be ok, a monster erupts out of the ground. I just had to keep on reading. It was SO hard to put down that I started it on the bus to school on Friday, and finished it at 8:30 in the morning on Saturday. I would recommend it to anyone who has read the Maze Runner (because if you have, you just have to read The Scorch Trials), and doesn't mind a lot of violence. Anyone who has read the Hunger Games trilogy will probably enjoy this book.
Genre: Science Fiction
Pages: 360
The Scorch Trials is the second book in a series by James Dashner. This story is set in the future. Global Warming has become very severe, and sections of the earth that used to be inhabitable are now desert. A new disease has also been contracted by humans: the Flare. The Flare is a disease caused by Global Warming, and it attacks the brain. People with the Flare will notice no symptoms for the first few weeks, but after that, you slowly start to deteriorate into insanity until you die. The whole human population will be wiped out unless scientists can figure out how to save them from the terrible disease. In order to do this, the scientists take two groups of 60 boys and 60 girls and put them through many difficult trials. In the first book, "The Maze Runner," the main character is a boy who has to help the rest of the boys in his group escape from the maze. In the second book, "The Scorch Trials," the boys have been told they have contracted the Flare and are given a set of directions they must follow to find the cure. The scientists look for patterns in the teenagers' behaviors to determine which ones are the strongest, and then their plan is to breed them. This book follows the adventures of one of the boys. Although they started out with 60 kids, they are now down to 11 - everyone else has died. It is so hard to give a proper summary of the book! It is so complicated, and uses so many references to the book before it, that I would have to explain what happened in the first book to give any specific details about stuff that happens in the second. Anyway, this novel is not what I would call a good book, or an enjoyable read...it's more of a gripping one. It is very violent and there are a lot of gruesome deaths. I could not put it down, because it was so compelling. Every second, the main character is in danger, rescuing someone, or being betrayed, and just when you think everything's going to be ok, a monster erupts out of the ground. I just had to keep on reading. It was SO hard to put down that I started it on the bus to school on Friday, and finished it at 8:30 in the morning on Saturday. I would recommend it to anyone who has read the Maze Runner (because if you have, you just have to read The Scorch Trials), and doesn't mind a lot of violence. Anyone who has read the Hunger Games trilogy will probably enjoy this book.
I love books like this! Ones that our about how virus's spread amongst places because i think its got this consistent intensity about it...love to read it when your done.
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