DECEMBER 2022 - AudioFile
Mark Deakins returns as narrator of this sixth audiobook in the Maze Runner series, the first installment of a planned trilogy within the series. The story is set 73 years after the Flare, an infectious disease that led to an apocalypse that is chronicled in the first five audiobooks. Descendants of people who were immune to the Flare and sent to live on an island are forced to go back, and they find the world is much different. Deakins is a good guide for exploring the new villains, dangers, and adventures facing this new generation of characters. He is adept at juggling the multiple points of view. It would be useful background if the listener has time for revisiting the earlier audiobooks or the movies—but it’s not essential. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
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Deakins is a good guide for exploring the new villains, dangers, and adventures facing this new generation of characters. He is adept at juggling the multiple points of view.”
DECEMBER 2022 - AudioFile
Mark Deakins returns as narrator of this sixth audiobook in the Maze Runner series, the first installment of a planned trilogy within the series. The story is set 73 years after the Flare, an infectious disease that led to an apocalypse that is chronicled in the first five audiobooks. Descendants of people who were immune to the Flare and sent to live on an island are forced to go back, and they find the world is much different. Deakins is a good guide for exploring the new villains, dangers, and adventures facing this new generation of characters. He is adept at juggling the multiple points of view. It would be useful background if the listener has time for revisiting the earlier audiobooks or the movies—but it’s not essential. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
Kirkus Reviews
2022-08-17
Seventy-three years after the events of The Death Cure (2011), the Maze Runner world expands in this trilogy opener.
Isaac and Sadina are about to go on the adventure of a lifetime. Their island home has been safe from the Flare virus and infected Cranks, but when a ship called The Maze Cutter arrives with all but one crew member dead, everything changes. Now they’re making a long journey to medical clinics in Los Angeles because Sadina’s DNA could provide a cure for the latest version of the Flare. In Alaska, Alexandra, Nicholas, and Mikhail, who together form the Godhead, battle for supremacy. Lastly, Orphan Minho is sent to fulfill his destiny: trekking to Alaska to find the Godhead—though he has a secret plan of his own. Each chapter has subsections that follow a specific character, allowing readers to jump between various perspectives, keeping the action and intrigue levels high. This entry brings new life to the series with its diverse, international cast and expanded universe that explore the implications of the protagonists’ earlier choices. The younger islanders are naïve about how things are working in the rest of the world, as faith in the Godhead shapes existence for the people of the new world. Here Dashner takes his original idea to a larger stage: Entire nations hang in the balance, and nothing is cut and dried.
Series fans will not be disappointed by this return to a world where danger lurks around each corner. (Dystopian. 12-18)
