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    The Scorch Trials: The Sequel to The Maze Runner

    Written by James Dashner

    Narrated by Mark Deakins

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    About this audiobook

    Book two in the blockbuster Maze Runner series that spawned a movie franchise and ushered in a worldwide phenomenon! And don't miss The Fever Code, the highly-anticipated series conclusion that finally reveals the story of how the maze was built!

    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.

    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.

    There are others now. Their survival depends on the Gladers' destruction-and they're determined to survive.

    Friendships will be tested. Loyalties will be broken. All bets are off.

    Praise for the Maze Runner series:
    A #1 New York Times Bestselling Series
    A USA Today Bestseller
    A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of the Year
    An ALA-YASLA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book
    An ALA-YALSA Quick Pick

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 26, 2010
    ISBN9780307706607
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    The Scorch Trials: The Sequel to The Maze Runner

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    Reviews for The Scorch Trials

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    • 4/5
      Yay! Dashner didn't let me down. "Scorch Trials" begins with a bang and never slows down. Often middle books in a series are disappointing, but not this one. Full of action, and a fair bit of brutality, this book is a page turner. Having escaped the maze, Thomas and his friends are thrown into another setting full of danger, with killer creatures and the threat of death at every turn, where survival relies solely on their initiative. This is turning into a fabulous series. Now for the finale!
    • 4/5
      This is book 2 of a trilogy. I'm reading the series back-to-back as I think that is how trilogies should be read. In this case it's like one long book, there is no time warp from one book to the other. This book was phase two of the experiment. Nothing is really solved and nothing really exposes more of what is going on. You can trust anything or anyone. It is a nice flow from one book to the other. I'm interested to see how this all ends.
    • 2/5
      Oh my this was complete crap. At least the first book was enjoyable.

      I don't really have too much to say other than that the movie is completely different but way better in every way. An ideal example of this is Brenda's character. In the movie, she is an actual person and I quite liked her, in the book, she's ridiculous and instalovey, with extreme moments of inappropriate for the situation and uncalled for "sexual tension" with Thomas. She doesn't feel like an actual human being in any way.

      The plot, besides all that, is nonsensical and confusing. I don't understand WICKED's plan whatsoever. There's a lot of "what" that makes no sense but even more confusing is the "why". This doesn't feel realistic at all. It would make more sense if WICKED was just a psycho cult torturing the Gladers just for kicks and giggles.

      And why on Earth do all the cranks introduce themselves as cranks? Wtf? It's just so comical and stupid.
    • 2/5
      I think this book might have been written using some sort of magic spell. Here are the things I didn't particularly like about this book: the actual plot events, the inner monologue of main character, the inchoate love triangle, the made-up slang, the overall style of writing.

      What's left? Good question. I can't identify anything that I did particularly like about the book... and yet I really, really wanted to keep reading. Almost an "I couldn't put it down" feeling. Which is bizarre, because... why do I so badly want to know what happens in a book that I don't particularly like?

      Obviously, there's magic involved here. My will is not my own.
    • 4/5
      Caroline has said that this is the least exciting book in the best series (Maze Runner series). If you like dystopian books, read it.
    • 3/5
      Well, I won't be reading the third one. I found this kind of cliche. Not very exciting.
    • 4/5
      For the curious, this is where the books and movies really start to deviate from each other in a real strong way. Not that I blame them. The book is such that it kinda calls for the movie to do its own thing from a visual and plot timing perspective. So, if you've seen the movie, you still haven't really experienced the plot of the story here well enough to even consider skipping it. It's a good read, and a direct sequel to the first book.
    • 4/5
      Thought it was really good. I was surprised at how different it was from the Maze Runner. I liked how the plot kept you guessing and some of the things that happened were unexpected. I also really liked the type of relationship that Thomas has build with some of the other Gladers such as Minho and Newt. Can't wait to read the next one!
    • 4/5
      I gave it a 4 but it was a just barely. I thought some of the book felt like a repeat of the first one but only in a new setting. I still liked it and can't wait to see how it ends.
    • 5/5
      If I had to use one word to describe this book, nay, this series it would be intense. This has become by far my favorite young adult series, even surpassing Hunger Games. I cannot wait to read book 3 and the prequel because I have so so many questions.
    • 3/5
      Action right from the start in this one, but characterisation is still kind of lacking. I'm intrigued by WICKED, what their ultimate goal really is, and how these tests are supposed to help create a cure for the flare.
    • 3/5
      After watching the Maze Runner, I really wanted to know what would happen to these characters. This book was slow moving compared to the first with what seemed like numerous redundant scenes and descriptions.

      I found the characters less proactive than the first book, often saying things like, "we went along with it because what else could we do." One or two choices of that nature are plausible, but when it becomes habitual, I lose interest in the characters.
    • 5/5
      Loving this series. Not sure I'm exactly the target market, but I'm enjoying these books a lot more than the Divergent Series. They are on par with the Hunger Games series (although bear in mind I haven't read the third book yet - the third book always falls flat in these types of series - but I hold out hope!)
      Just when you think they've survived and all live happily ever after, it all goes pear shaped, in unimaginable ways. You don't know who to trust. Betrayal at every angle. Bit like life really... ;)
      If you enjoy dystopian YA with every twist and turn an author can throw at you, then these are the book for you.
      Read it in two days.
    • 3/5
      The first book in the series took me a while to get into, but this one, which picks up right where the last left off and foregoes any recaps, had me hooked from the get-go. There's still a lot of character angst in the dialogue, but the action is more consistent so the connecting dialogue is minimal. Nonstop action drives this book, which moves at a much quicker pace. I look forward to the third book!
    • 5/5
      Brilliant sequel! I enjoyed this as much if not more so than The Maze Runner. Pieces of the mystery are coming into place but only leaving more questions behind as Thomas wakes up the morning after figuring out the maze and being saved to another trial ahead. The Gladers take another stab at securing their lives by heading out across the Scorch (a relentlessly hot and burning desert land). The Scorch has many difficulties, the main one being the Cranks who live there. The Cranks are sickened by a disease they call the Flare, left there to die as the disease makes them go mad and waste away. It is a fast paced adventure that keeps you turning pages until the end.
      It is fantastic and ends with even more questions to be answered in the last installment of this thrilling trilogy. Definitely reminiscent of The Hunger Games but with it's own set of rules, players and game makers. I wait with baited breath for The Death Cure (tentatively titled).
    • 4/5
      The 2nd book of the Maze Runner series, this picks up when Thomas and the others are taken to a "safe place" after escaping the maze only to find their rescuers all murdered the next morning and "cranks" crazy with the flare disease trying to kill them. They find out that they are in another trial, this time out in the real scorched world with the task of getting to the Safe Haven within a specific amount of time without dying. This time, WICKED is playing with their minds, as well. If they make it, the Gladers will get the cure to the Flare that they have all been infected with. And now there is another variable- another team to compete against. Will the trials never end? 361 pages, this one is more for 7th grade and up, due to some romantic interest thrown in on top of the brutality.
    • 4/5
      It took me and my son a long time to finish this book because we didn't have a lot of drive time over the past few months but we both agreed that we liked the sequel better than the first book - and we liked the first one. We'll continue on with the third.
    • 3/5
      This is the second book of the three book series. The first book has better story line, the plot of this book is not very convincing.
    • 5/5
      The Scorced Trials by: James DashnerThomas and his friends are back! They are taken to this "safe house" by a group of rebels or so they think. After a few days of relaxation and pepperoni pizza the gladers find themselves with another test. They need to cross through what used to be mexico and get to the safe house, but there is a deadly secret. I won't tell you. -Evil Laugh- I liked this book because of the adventure, fighting, and these are boys my age crossing desserts looking like bosses. If you wan't to know what happens read the book.
    • 4/5
      Si liked it just as much if not more than the 1st so i would say job well done
    • 4/5
      This was so good. One question after another. So many twists and turns. Just the idea that you might learn the truth in the next chapter keeps you reading.
    • 2/5
      There are some books or series that are so annoying that I read them just to see if they would ever make sense or redeem themselves. David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas come to mind as stuff masqueraded and purported as more than junk, and finishing them took monumental will power. Then there are the books or series that I can't force myself to finish because they are so not worth finishing...I gave William Gibson's Neuromancer and Veronica Roth's Divergent (I read the first, but stopped there) series a valiant effort, but they failed early and often and I decided life was too short for inanity or silliness.

      I'm wondering if the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 mean anything to Dashner. Sure seems that way. Still, I checked...he doesn't have a writing credit for "Lost". I find most middle books in trilogies are fillers...and like the middle seasons two through five in "Lost", Dashner seems to delight in teasing extremely obscure references while combining disambiguated twists in his weird arc.

      After two of these YA messes, I admit I am curious to see if the train wreck has any resolution, and if it makes sense...AND if there is continuity with the revealed snippets from the predecessors. The nonsense slang is still present...though not as much but just as annoying. I expect Dashner felt real vulgarities would not be received well. And yet, graphic violence is okay. Go figure. George Carlin nailed it. Violence is okay, but words are not.
    • 4/5
      The second book in the Maze Runner series. The story continues and if you enjoyed The Maze Runner you should enjoy this. The Gladers face a second trial and it is even worse than The Maze. Dashner gives dribs and drabs of information surrounding the mystery of WICKED and the background of the characters but he makes sure you have to keep reading for any kind of resolution. I suspect you have to read all four books, but luckily they are not long and are easy to read.
    • 4/5
      Not quite as compelling as the first book, this felt like more of the same. I knew what to expect from the trials even if the exact "variables" were unknown to me. Still, I can't wait to get into the third book. It had better offer up some good answers!
    • 5/5
      As the amazing sequel to maze runner comes.As Thomas and his friends are saved from W.I.C.K.E.D. they find themselves in a building.They discover that the people who are housing them are W.I.C.K.E.D. scientists!So they run into the scourged land in attempt to escape them!They thought they escaped, they didn't.
    • 4/5
      In this second book of the series our heroes are tortured and chased again by the mysterious WICKED. Although it's very similar to the first one, I liked it less for two reasons. First, for me Thomas' whining thorough the book was simply too much. Second, the story is very exciting, maybe a bit too much. After a while I was simply irritated by the 'compulsory ' cliffhangers at the end of all chapters. A bit less would have been more. But of course I'm very curious how the story concludes in the third volume.
    • 4/5
      This was good if you enjoy the series, but took me by surprise and shocker with the gruesome violence and freaky chics in this story!
    • 4/5
      This might be one of the rare times I liked a sequel more than the initial book. This one struck me as more of a straightforward horror novel, with the dystopian world just happening to be the setting. I legitimately jumped and shrieked at one point because the book actually managed to trigger the same fear response as something jumping out at you in a movie at one point. Much like the first book, I still feel that the characters (aside from Thomas) are incredibly shallow and exist merely to move the story forward, without having their own internal motivations, but I'm more okay with that in a horror story than in other genres.
    • 4/5
      Thomas and his fellow Gladers made it out of the Maze, but they had no idea that would just be the beginning. They're still not free: WICKED is running another set of trials, this time sending the teens on a 100-mile walk across the Scorch, the barren strip of land where the sun flares have wiped out nearly all life. The teens are informed that they have the Flare in them, a disease that will slowly attack their brains and make them crazy, and the cure is at the end of the walk--but to get there, they need to evade the infected, far-gone Cranks, not to mention the deadly lightning storms. Also, the Gladers weren't in the only maze: Group B was all girls, and they have orders to kill Thomas.

      So. Lots of switchbacks and double-crossings and conspiracies. Can Thomas still trust Teresa, or his own memories? Teresa once told him that "WICKED is good" but that's starting to look unlikely.

      Post-apocalyptic in that the sun flares have wiped out so much of life and caused severe environmental upset, particularly with the lightning storms that now come out of nowhere. People infected with The Flare are quarantined in a city in the middle of the Scorch, where healthy people are unlikely to run into them. There's still not a lot of exploration of the post-apocalypse lifestyle, and I'm not sure that will play a big part in Book 3, but I'll be reading it anyway when it comes out in October.

      This would make a decent stand-alone--the context of the maze isn't necessary for the enjoyment of this volume, though most of the character development happened in The Maze Runner. If you don't care about the nuances of the interpersonal relationships, it's easy enough to jump in mid-stream. 8th grade and up for the most enjoyment; boys will particularly like the boy-centric action, and series readers will gravitate toward this trilogy.

      Readalikes: Sleator's House of Stairs for psychological experimentation, Charlie Higson's Enemy for journey through disease-ridden city with the diseased attacking.
    • 3/5
      I wasn't given any reason to expect this, but I was hoping this next installment of The Maze Runner series might be from a POV other than that of Thomas. Nope. More Thomas and a lot more of the same.***This review will contain spoilers for The Maze Runner***This is very much a "middle trilogy" sort of book. The action doesn't advance much. The author isn't really ready to give away too many answers. It felt like an extended effort to introduce a few more characters and change our opinion of Teresa. Now that Thomas and Co. are out of The Maze, one would hope we'd learn more about the world outside, the disease called "The Flare," and WICKED. Don't get your hopes up. Instead, the Gladers and Thomas are just catapulted from one life-or-death situation to another, while Thomas remembers tantalizingly little about life before the Glade. For a group of boy-geniuses, they spend a lot of time being remarkably stupid.Also, the lightbulb monsters? They kinda made me laugh.