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Scribbles About Books: The Scorch Trials by James Dashner (Maze Runner Series book 2)** *SPOILERS***

So I just finished reading The Scorch Trials which is the second book in the Maze Runner Series. Its been a really long time since I read the first Maze Runner book... I think I read it my Sophomore year of college... so over 4 years ago! And I really liked the movie Maze Runner which came out last year. Thats definitely one of my favorite movies based on a book... ever really. I thought it was really exciting and well done. I think my only complaint about the movie was Teresa really wasn't in it much and I don't think they did a great job with the telepathy stuff... but still it was pretty good. So its been a long time since I've read that and I don't completely remember it... but I think I liked this one a lot better... for a bunch of reasons and I'm really excited to see the movie. The thing I think I liked most about this one was the character development. Thomas just seems like a regular "harry potter" type of character in the first Maze Runner. H...

Scribbles About Movies: Maze Runner Review!

I read the Maze Runner book, and I really really liked it... still haven't finished the series, but I really do like the first book. So obviously I had to see the movie! I was pretty pumped about the movie because a lot of the things in the book were hard to picture... but I really wasn't expecting too much from the movie. I really wanted to see it, and I even saw it the day it came out cause I was so excited, but I still wasn't expecting it to be anything amazing or anything. But my mom did say it got good reviews, so that excited me too!  And then like immediately when the movie started... I was super SUPER into it! The book begins with Thomas just kind of thrown into this world with this maze and he's brought up into the world through a little elevator type of thing. And the way the camera is and everything, you feel like YOU'RE THERE WITH HIM! Like we as an audience enter this crazy dystopian society when the main character of the film enters! That immediatel...