Finished The Maze Runner

Where to begin?  With the suspenseful and intense Grievers who are on guard to kill or the fact that the Gladers may never return to normal life?  While reading in the pitch black and cuddled in my warm sheets, the image James Dashner can illustrate makes me want to sleep with the lights on.  Not necessarily is the book scary, but it sure is suspenseful. 

I recently left off wondering how and why the innocent boys were put into the maze.  Upon finishing, only one of the nagging questions was answered.  Thomas and about half of the Gladers decided to bravely take their chances and fight the Grievers so they could escape.  However, after jumping through the Griever Hole, battling Grievers, and punching in a code, they only came out to a cage-like room with windows revealing the evil creators. 

The readers didn't learn much about why the creators ran the maze experiment because a group of protestors came in and rescued the boys.  Who knows exactly who the group was, but they transferred them right to a somewhat safe house. 

You might be thinking that this was a happy ending and all of the boys got to return to their families; but the story hasn't ended yet.  The boys are now fighting from getting the epidemic Flare.  They are trapped inside this "safe" house and can see the lunatics raging around their windows.  They've tried everything trying to get out of the house, but soon they hear a very familiar alarm--one only heard in the maze. 

The boys may have thought they escaped the maze and outsmarted the creators, but the upbeat sequel, The Scorch Trials makes it seem as if they are yet again another set of mice in a lab experiment.