The Scorch Trials by James DashnerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I'm definitely jumping on the young adult dystopia novel bandwagon. I found this book as hard to put down as The Maze Runner, the first in the series. I did not like the setting as much and the new characters made my blood boil (I don't even know why I hate them, I think I'm supposed to like them) but I still found it impossible to stay away from this book for too long. It was extremely suspenseful and even terrifying at times. It's going to be a long wait for The Death Cure which doesn't come out until October!
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I am loving this new trend in young adult literature. I haven't even read The Hunger Games yet and that's the one that started it all!
I'm loving the book reviews. Here is a summary of my current reads/listens:
ReplyDeleteThe Lies of Locke Lamora - clever bandits in a Venice-like city on a planet of many moons. Decent fantasy - 4 stars
Silverwing - a juvie about a bat who becomes a hero... surprisingly gripping - 3 stars
Typee - "classic" writing, that is, stilted and antiquated prose framing a pretty good yarn - 4 stars
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - nice mystery filled with quirky characters and Scandinavian angst. 4 stars
Wicked Prey - another reliable John Sandford novel about Lucas Davenport tracking down another serial killer in Minnesota - 3 stars
The Yellow Room - Melodramatic locked room mystery written in the early 1900s - 3 stars
Irish Folk & Fairy Tales - Quaint and colorful tales of leprechauns, banshees and a whole bunch of others, complete with archaic spelling and undecipherable Irish idioms. - 3 stars
An Incomplete Education - Surprisingly useful book on everything you should have learned in college, but maybe didn't. I'm liking it a lot
4 stars
Sweet. Just added Yellow Room to my to-read list. I'm a sucker for a good locked room mystery.
ReplyDeleteI reviewed Girl with the Dragon Tattoo at some point if you check the blog archives or my goodreads profile. You have a more positive opinion of it than I did.