This book reads like the script for a reality TV programme. Or a riff on Golding’s Lord of the Flies. Teenaged Boys lacking any knowledge of their past lives save a first name arrive disoriented in the glade which is surrounded by a maze with 50-ft rock walls not unlike a lab rat’s maze. We learn of this organized society through the eye’s of its latest arrival Thomas. Takes a while to warm to this book but it grows on one as the read progresses. As usual best to read the book before seeing the related flick.
The maze has its own jargon but the substitutes for profanity such as klunk for ‘shit’ in a book aimed at young adults tends to get tiresome quickly. This book is volume one of a series. Book one is enough for me.
The maze has its own jargon but the substitutes for profanity such as klunk for ‘shit’ in a book aimed at young adults tends to get tiresome quickly. This book is volume one of a series. Book one is enough for me.
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