The Maze Runner
James Dashner, 2009
A boy wakes with no memory in a moving lift, among boys who have built a life beside a shifting maze. The rules are simple; the questions aren't.
James Dashner
Dashner's books run on the same engine: a boy with a wiped memory, a set of rules he didn't write, and a group of kids who have to decide how much to trust each other while something larger moves around them. Start with The Maze Runner, the one that sets up the lift and the maze and the boys who have made a life beside it; The Scorch Trials picks up the same tension and pushes it into a scorched, infected world where almost no one can be trusted.
Feels like death, dread and memory.
Start with The Maze Runner.
Before The Maze Runner, Dashner worked in accounting and wrote fiction on the side.
The faces above him are only boys. His heart doesn't get the message.
And then, as if the lens of a camera had sharpened its focus, the faces cleared. They were boys, all of them—some young, some older. Thomas didn’t know what he’d expected, but seeing those faces puzzled him. They were just teenagers. Kids. Some of his fear melted away, but not enough to calm his racing heart. Books by James Dashner
The Scorch Trials
James Dashner, 2010
The Maze was only the first test. A scorched world, infected strangers and a group of teens who trust almost no one.
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