The Death Cure

I recently read The Death Cure by James Dashner, the third and final book in the series. In the books leading up to it, which all take place in the future the main characters, Thomas, Teresa, Newt and Minho survive an underground maze with predators, and a town full of flare-infected, man-eating crazies. The flare is a disease brought on by extreme sun flares, that is highly contagious, without a cure and that less then 1% of the people are immune to, which includes most of the people they travel with.

One of the very interesting, but sad at the same time, aspects of the book is the relationship between Newt and Thomas. Newt has always been a sort of mentor for Thomas, and is always there for him, but they find out that Newt has the flare, which will drive him beyond insane. In the end, after Newt is taken away by authorities for this reason, they find him, but are rejected. Newt ends up begging, pleading Thomas to kill him, to end him of his suffering. This goes on to the point where Newt will kill Thomas unless Thomas kills Newt, possibly his best friend.

In conclusion, I would recommend this series, especially the first one, The Maze Runner, to all fans of action-packed books with a lot of sadness, almost post-apocoliptic.