The Scorch Trials, written by James Dashner (book #2 of The Maze Runner Series) is a short action novel that takes place in The Scorch, (more precisely in southern Mexico) all the areas of the world between the two tropics, which were burned and dried by massive radioactive sun flares. The story is narrated in limited third-person around a character named Thomas, who is crossing the Scorch with his friends that he met at a trial in the Maze at WICKED (World In Catastrophe - Killzone Experiment Department) which is the new government in this new devastated world. Thomas and his friends were infected with a deadly virus, called the flare, which has devastated the scorched world by turning the infected into crazy, human eating animals called Cranks, who are deprived of basic human feelings like compassion and love. Thomas and his friends, along with another group of WICKED's "lab rats," will cross the Scorch to get the "cure" for the Flare, which wicked has been developing for years. The Scorch is ignored by the world and is filled with thousands of long-gone Cranks, which the group will have to fight through to get to the Safe Heaven. where they will get the "cure".
I think that everyone should read this book, it was amazing and interesting, and it is definitely worth reading. The story was filled with suspense, as this new, burned-out world is so strange that you can't really predict what will happen next. This book was a action-packed, the story throwing something new at the Gladers every turn of a page, after all, they are in a city filled with bloodthirsty monsters and who knows what more. It also helped that the story gave such big and detailed explanations of things, making the story easy and fun to visualize. It also is worth reading because it is one of those books that leaves you with so much expectation, you just have to known what happens next. I also enjoyed this book because as the Rat Man (a character in the story) said, "Never believe your eyes, much less you mind, things in this place are not what they seem to be." I think that quote describes much of the story perfectly. I would really recommend this book to imaginative people (as well as the last book) as it is so detail filled that you really won't have time to visualize it all. I would also recommend this book to people who enjoy discovering new things, as this world in the book is so strange, and the book is so entertaining, that you don't even feel the hundreds of pages in it.