The Infinite Glade

Overall Rating:3.5/5

WICKED is good.

That is what the Gladers have always been brought up to believe, that the sacrifice of a few ... is worth the salvation of many others...

The thrilling finale of the Maze Runner series, and the end of the Maze Cutter trilogy ...brought together by the talented mind and hands of James Dashner brings everything that was once thought to be truth into question...is this the end? Or it the beginning of something entirely new....

The World (or Alaska+ surrounding areas?) is at war.... and our main characters have found themselves caught in between the crossfire as multiple groups clash... in an attempt to guard each's unique values. Frypan, Ximena, Isaac, and Jackie search for their friends... while the so-called Goddess, Alexandria and the much larger other group head to search for a so-called Cure. With the same slow-burn build up into a fast-churning whirlpool of events, this book was overall... satisfying to an end of the series. It was a good conclusion, although a large amount of the story seemed to fall flat... leaving me somewhat with more questions than I started off with.

The characters, especially the antagonist, seem somewhat underdeveloped, as do some of the side characters ( mainly Ximena, who pops up somewhat randomly and unannounced in the last novel)... the added complexity is nice, but I would've also adored a little bit more story to our rowdy bunch of characters, to be able to get to know them a little bit better than what this novel gave us.

For you diehard Maze Runner fans out there, this is your perfect ending. For me? It left me wondering more questions than I started off with. More yearnings for additional backstory and additional lore.... to be able to better understand things. For now, I wave the Maze Runner series a fond farewell.