Ender Quartet: Book 1: Ender’s Game

            Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card, is a phenomenal book that follows the journey of a young boy named Andrew “Ender” Wiggin. He lives in a world were aliens called the Formic, nicknamed the “Buggers,” have invaded Earth twice, or at least tried to. Humans have pushed them out of the solar system each time. With fear for a third invasion gripping the overpopulated planet, the smartest children on the planet are being recruited to go to a space station called the Battle School. The Battle School is a place where a game–a sport, really–that takes place in zero-g teaches them how to command armies. Ender is one of those children.

            Ender’s Game is near the pinnacle of science fiction. It is very good at keeping the reader wanting to know what happens next. It is very exciting and has a climactic ending. Ender is a great main character as he struggles to prove he is good at what he does. The books in this series are Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. There are also many minor books that are canon in this series as well.

The Maze Runner: Book 3: The Death Cure

            The Death Cure, by James Dashner, is the anticlimactic ending to the Maze Runner trilogy. With the trials over the Gladers have been offered by WICKED to have their memories restored so they can help create a cure for the flare. Thomas, however, has already remembered more than WICKED thinks and knows enough to not trust WICKED. WICKED says that the time for lies is over, but Thomas is discovering more about WICKED and himself as he tries to bring them down.

            This book is, as stated before, very anticlimactic and is filled to the brink with unnecessary plot devices and deaths. Thomas has to fight his way through Denver as he makes one stupid decision that almost gets him killed after another. He then leaves to make even more stupid decisions and eventually gets his friends killed. This book shows exactly how stupid Thomas really is and that he had dumb luck in the first books. At the end of this book I decided not to read The Kill Order until it was the last book on my shelf. The books in this series are The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, and the prequel is The Kill Order.

The Maze Runner: Book 2: The Scorch Trials

            The Scorch Trials, by James Dashner, is a book that tells readers what happens after Thomas and the Gladers escape the Maze. Now that they are out, they face a whole new series of challenges. WICKED tells them that they have to cross the Scorch to reach a safe haven in two weeks. But with it, comes difficulty. The world, burned by sun flares, has a climate that has gone out of control and Cranks, people infected by the Flare a disease that makes people insane, are constantly on the hunt for their next meal. Thomas believes that somewhere in his supposedly empty mind rests the secret to defeat WICKED.

            If you ask me, the first book was better. This is still a good book; I just don’t like the ending. It is just too random for it to make any sense. I just don’t like certain things about it. I would specify, but since it is at the end I won’t. The beginning also wasn’t very gripping. The middle is the only part I liked. The entire series is The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, and the prequel The Kill Order.