“Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?” – 3.5/5 stars!

Attention! This book contains: trials, bergs, cranks, shanks, old buildings, underground tunnels, metal teardrops, mysterious signs, new tattoos, the safe haven, sharp spears, rusty bullets, Rat Man, first kisses, the flare, telepathy, lightning strikes, betrayals, hunger, sand storms and a possible cure.

Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end.
 
Thomas was sure that escape from the Maze would mean freedom for him and the Gladers. But WICKED isn’t done yet. Phase Two has just begun. The Scorch.
 
There are no rules. There is no help. You either make it or you die.
 
The Gladers have two weeks to cross through the Scorch—the most burned-out section of the world. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.
 
Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off.
 
There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers’ destruction—and they’re determined to survive.

Once again, I had a good time reading this book! I recently reread it and I decided to lower my rating to 3.5. Fortunately for me, my feelings didn’t change too much. Some parts were difficult to read because there’s a lot of betrayal going on and you don’t know who to trust. And not only that, but you get a lot of crazy revelations. 

Teresa is a very unlikable character and I don’t understand how Thomas is still crazy about her. It’s very uncommon for me to NOT root for the main romance of the book, but Teresa… just, no. Wake up dude! Anyways, I digress…

I came to an interesting conclusion while reading this book for the second time: the way the desert setting is constant throughout the book makes the story look very slow-paced. Since the setting doesn’t change for a very long time, it feels like the scenes are longer.

Just like the first time I read this, another familiar feeling emerged: I’m so surprised with how different the book is from the movie. The plot and setting is completely different, and I could only spot a few scenes that were used in the movie… I wonder why they changed it so much?

I still prefer the first book, but this was very fun as well! Oh, and the audiobook is phenomenal, I definitely recommend this format!