This review will not contain spoilers for The Death Cure, but may contain spoilers for the first two books in the series, The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials.

Thomas has endured the Maze. He has survived the Scorch. He is now faced with the ultimate decision – does he trust WICKED and go along with their plans? Are they “good,” as Teresa keeps saying they are? Can he even trust Teresa? And will he ever understand the full extent of his involvement in the Trials?

I know that’s not much of a plot synopsis, but, trust me, you don’t want this spoiled for you. Part of the genius of this series is the way Dashner doles out information, bit by bit, allowing the reader to attempt to put the pieces together for him- or herself.

Honestly, I had my doubts about this book. I wasn’t sure if Dashner would be able to wrap it up to my satisfaction, but he did. I finished reading the book aloud to my boys this morning, and during the last two chapters, I simply couldn’t read fast enough, stumbling over the words as Noah tapped his toe nervously and he and Jonathan and Josiah hung on my every word. We were all very happy with the way it ended, the way things were wrapped up – except for one plot point toward the end that it may take me years to forgive Dashner for, even if I understand his reason for going in that direction.

Did every single loose end get tied up in a neat little bow? No, and I think that is the basis of some of the dissatisfaction I’m seeing on the book’s Goodreads page. Do I understand why the subjects were sent through the Maze and the Scorch, what WICKED was trying to accomplish? Yes, absolutely. Do I know if WICKED is good or not? Well, I won’t spoil anything, except to say that good and evil are black and white, and the world is made up of grey areas.

I also think that Dashner will wrap up even more of those loose ends and answer a couple of my unanswered questions when the prequel, The Kill Order comes out this summer. The boys and I just might be ready for another roller-coaster read-aloud by then.

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Title: The Children of Men
Author: P.D. James
Genre: Dystopian fiction, science fiction
Publisher: Vintage
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from the public library
First line: Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

The Children of Men opens in 2021. It has been 25 years since the Omega, the name given to the last year that included any human births. No babies have been born or conceived since. Doctors and scientists have exhausted all resources in their search for a reason for this phenomenon, as well as a solution. All efforts have failed, and the human race has accepted the fact that it is dying out.

The book is told in two ways: through the journal entries of “Theodore Faron, Doctor of Philosophy, Fellow of Merton College in the University of Oxford, historian of the Victorian age, divorced, childless, solitary, whose only claim to notice is that he is cousin to Xan Lyppiatt, the dictator and Warden of England…,” and through third-person narration following Theo’s experiences with a subversive group known as The Five Fishes.

This book vividly demonstrates what happens when humankind vales sex for pleasure but not for procreation, when it values pleasure and comfort over justice and mercy, when it seeks for perfection and despises human frailty. It is not an easy read, in the sense that it is disheartening to read such a clear picture of what humankind is capable of if left to it’s own designs.

I don’t want to give too much of the plot away to those of you who are planning to read this book or see the film, but I will say that Ms. James gives a strong argument for valuing each and every human life. I am now a little reluctant to watch the movie, because I will be surprised if that message comes through.

And now, for my review of the film version…

Last month, I read and reviewed the book The Children of Men by P. D. James. I knew the movie was coming out (starring one of my favorites – Clive Owen), and I wanted to read the book first. Unfortunately, I think I would have enjoyed the movie much more if I hadn’t.

There are a few similarities between the book and the movie.

~They are both set in the future.
~In the future, the human race has stopped reproducing.
~There are characters named Theo and Julian.
~Theo meets a young pregnant woman and helps her evade the government.

That’s really all they had in common. The characters are completely different. In the book, Theo is a retired college professor. In the movie, he is a disgruntled office worker. In the book, he has a friend named Jasper who is also a retired college professor. In the movie, his friend Jasper (played by Michael Caine) is a pot-growing hippy ex-activist.

In the book, Theo’s wife Julian (portrayed by Julianne Moore) is a shallow character who barely makes an appearance. In the movie, Julian is an underground political activist who cons Theo into helping the pregnant girl by offering him 5,000 pounds. In the book, Theo decides to help the girl on principal and because he is drawn to her – not for money.

I could go on and on. Why is it that people find a book that they enjoy, think would make a great movie, and then promptly change everything about it? I just don’t get it.

And more than the character and plotline changes, there is the whole theme of the book: the sacredness of life and how a world divorced from a Christian worldview becomes a place of horror and outrage. The movie becomes a political manifesto of a different sort. In fact, the whole idea that people have stopped reproducing seems to be secondary to the fact that Britain has started deporting all immigrants and has descended into mass chaos.

As you can see, I was disappointed in this movie. Perhaps if I hadn’t read the book, and didn’t know what P. D. James’ original vision for the story was, I would have enjoyed it, but I’m not sure. If you are a fan of futuristic sci-fi and haven’t read the book, you might enjoy this movie. But if you loved the book as I did, the movie will be a huge let-down.

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While this review will not contain spoilers for Dust and Decay, it will contain spoilers for the first book in the series, Rot and Ruin.

In the six months since Benny Imura, along with his zombie-hunter brother Tom, and Benny’s girlfriend Nix, defeated Charlie Pinkeye in the Rot and Ruin, they have been training and preparing to leave their home forever. Determined to travel east to find the jet they saw in the sky, Tom has been training Benny and Nix to survive outside the safe walls of their home town, to understand what it means to live in the wilderness that is infested by zombies, and by human pariahs who are often worse. Lilah, the lost girl, will accompany them on their trip – her survival and battle skills will be indispensable.

In spite of all of Tom’s planning, however, things go wrong their very first day in the Rot, and they discover that Gameland has been rebuilt. And why does Benny think he saw Charlie Pinkeye, a man who is supposed to be dead?

Jonathan Maberry has done it again (I thoroughly enjoyed book one in this series, Rot and Ruin) – written a work of zombie fiction that is character-driven, intelligent, and funny, without losing any of the page-turning plot and action. I love the way he writes the different relationships in the book: Tom’s love, protection, and good-hearted exasperation at his younger brother; the young, awkward romance between Benny and Nix; the constant ribbing yet fierce loyalty between Benny and his best friend, Chong.

The point of view switches between characters, and this gives the reader real insight into some of the characters. I loved the sections from Lilah’s point of view, and the emotional journey she travels in the course of the story is especially poignant. There are some new characters that also add to the story – especially the entertainment value: bounty hunters Sally Two-Knives, J-Dog, and Dr. Skillz. And as creepy a villain as Charlie Pinkeye was in the first book, Maberry has upped the ante with Preacher Jack, a man who embodies evil.

Dust and Decay was a total page-turner, and the ending (which had me in tears, not something I usually expect with zombie fiction) left me hungry for more. Flesh and Bone, the third book in the series, comes out in September. In the meantime, for those of you who are as impatient as I am, there is bonus material available online: a short story prequel to the first book called “First Memories”, and some deleted scenes from the beginning of Dust and Decay.

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A Discovery of Witches by Deborah E. Harkness
From my review: “I know I’m gushing, but I don’t know how else to get across how much I adored this book. It has so many of my favorite things: an academic setting; the study of history; elements of the paranormal; spine-tingling creepiness in parts; descriptions of wine that had my mouth watering; a plot that kept me turning page after page long after I should be doing something else; and, of course, a delicious, ages-enduring romance. Bottom line: read this book.”

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
From my review: “Onye’s story is a story of magic, of love, of being a woman. it’s the story of a mother’s amazing love for a daughter conceived in the most horrific circumstances; the story of true love that surpasses all; of finding and fulfilling one’s destiny in the face of insurmountable odds. Through Onye’s story, the author deals with racism, prejudice, and sexual discrimination. Onye is an amazingly strong young woman, full of passion for her world and a desire to stop the horrors being committed in the name of a religion that feeds prejudice and hatred.”

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
From my review: “Reading To Say Nothing of the Dog was the most literary fun I’ve had in a long time. If you haven’t already given Willis a try, what on earth are you waiting for?”

Blackout by Connie Willis
All Clear by Connie Willis
I didn’t review these, because I read them as part of a read-along and so all my thoughts were on the read-along posts. These are brilliant – and must be read back-to-back. A perfect combination of science fiction and historical fiction. Connie Willis is my hero.

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I love the premise of this book: two high school friends in 1986 sign up for America Online, back when the internet isn’t in every home. They are automatically logged in to Facebook – which doesn’t exist yet – and see their profiles for 15 years in the future. They also discover that every time they hit refresh, their profiles change. Understanding how the decisions they make resonate into the future is most of what this story is about – but it’s also got a great love story, too.

Title: The Red Badge of Courage
Author: Stephen Crane
Genre: Historical fiction
Publisher: Various
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
Audiobook reader: Frank Muller
First line: The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.

This was my last pick for the War Through the Generations Challenge this year – and it was just okay. The audiobook reader did a great job with the narration; I’m not sure I could have made it through in print. The author refers to the main character as “the youth” and this tactic distances the reader from the character and the things he is experiencing. I know this one is a classic, and the descriptions of the conditions in the Civil War are very well-written – and disturbing – but it wasn’t a favorite.

Title: A Place on Earth
Author: Wendell Berry
Genre: Historical fiction
Publisher: Counterpoint
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from my personal library
First line: The seed bins are empty.

What can I say? I am so glad I hosted the Wendell Berry Challenge this year. I’m not sure that anyone else completed their challenge goal – not many people signed up to begin with. But if the only thing the challenge accomplished was to prompt me to read more of this amazing man’s work, it was more than worth it. Coming in a close second to Hannah Coulter, A Place on Earth is my second favorite of his books. It isn’t a linear novel, but a collection of scenes that describe the conditions of Port William and the emotions of its inhabitants during World War II. Focusing mainly on Mat Feltner as he waits for word of his son Virgil, who is in Europe fighting, Berry shows how the war devastated not only the young soldiers, but their parents, wives, and families left behind. It is truly a beautiful book.

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For as long as Deuce can remember, she has wanted to be a Huntress, to be given her true name and no longer be one of the nameless brats. But when she achieves her goal, she is assigned Fade as her partner. He grew up outside the enclave, and his strangeness causes Deuce to start to question what she’s always believed, what she’s always been told. I enjoyed Enclave very much – Deuce is a complicated, fierce character, and the transformation of her world and worldview made for a fascinating story. The world-building is also excellent, as well as the interaction between Deuce and Fade. This book works as a stand-alone, but I see that the author has a sequel coming out in 2012. I’m excited to read it – not because she left me hanging at the end of Enclave and I HAVE to read it – but because the world she has built and the characters that people it are worth revisiting.

Title: Ready Player One
Author: Ernest Cline
Genre: Dystopian, science fiction
Publisher: Crown
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
Audiobook reader: Wil Wheaton
First line: Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.

Sandy was right – this book is amazing! I’m not a gamer, so I wasn’t initially interested in reading Ready Player One. Then, Sandy posted her review, which told me everything I needed to know: chock full of 80s nostalgia, action-packed, and narrated by the brilliant Wil Wheaton. Like Sandy, I am the target audience for this book – and so is my husband. He will be reading it soon – all I had to say was: Joust, War Games, RUSH’s “2112″ album, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, etc. etc. etc.

Title: Explosive Eighteen
Author: Janet Evanovich
Genre: Mystery
Publisher: Bantam
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public libary
Audiobook reader: Lorelei King
First line: New Jersey was 40,000 feet below me, obscured by cloud cover.

Stephanie is back, baby! I wasn’t all that thrilled with the seventeenth book in the series, but I found Explosive Eighteen thoroughly enjoyable. Sure, Stephanie is still torn between Ranger and Morelli, but there was less about that and more Stephanie and Lulu attempting to be Rangeresque bounty hunters, and that makes for lots of humor. And, of course, these books are all read by the incomparable Lorelei King – I wouldn’t experience them any other way.

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The books in this series about kids trying to survive without adults have given my sons and I many enjoyable hours of read-aloud time. While we have enjoyed every title, we all agree that this is the best one since the first. The series is very dark, and books two and three had very little to alleviate the darkness. This book, however, had Nutella and Pepsi, which will only make sense to you after you’ve read it. Our only beef is that Michael Grant doesn’t write faster, and we have to wait until next year for book five, and until 2013 for the final book in the series.

Title: Minding Frankie
Author: Maeve Binchy
Genre: Contemporary fiction
Publisher: Knopf
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
Audiobook reader: Sile Bermingham
First line: Katie Finglas was coming to the end of a tiring day in the salon.

Oh, how I love Maeve Binchy! After Whitethorn Woods and Heart and Soul, I feel like I know the characters in this little corner of Dublin that she writes about. At the heart of Minding Frankie is a motherless baby girl. Her stunned father, Noel Lynch, is trying to get his life together – giving up the “gargle,” going back to college in order to get a better job – but isn’t equipped to do it on his own. Enter his cousin, Emily, from America, who organizes the residents of St. Jarlath’s Crescent to help with baby-minding duties. But can they help convince the ever-vigilant social worker Moira that Frankie belongs with her father?

I haven’t read all of Binchy’s books that include these familiar characters (Quentins, Scarlet Feather, Nights of Rain and Stars), but I plan to. I just wish my library had them all on audio, because Sile Bermingham’s beautiful narration has spoiled me for reading them in print.

Title: In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
Author: Erik Larson
Genre: Non-fiction, history
Publisher: Crown
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
Audiobook reader: Stephen Hoye
First line: It was common for American expatriates to visit the U.S. consulate in Berlin, but not in the condition exhibited by the man who arrived there on Thursday, June 29, 1933.

In 1933, William Dodd, a history professor with no diplomatic experience, became the first American ambassador to Hitler’s regime. His family accompanies him to Berlin, and his daughter, Martha, quickly becomes a hit in the round of social affairs attended by the diplomatic community – and top-ranked Nazis. This is an interesting picture of Hitler’s rise to power, and a disturbing affirmation that different choices by Americans in power could have changed the course of history, and possibly prevented the magnitude of the atrocities committed by the Third Reich. While I found the subject fascinating, the story became dry and slow in places, which kept me from rating it higher than three stars. However, I still recommend it to readers interested in World War II.

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Two hundred sixty years after a devastating car accident, Locke and Kara are given new bodies, bodies that are just like their old ones – almost. Their minds were contained for all those decades in square boxes called environments, until technology and an unscrupulous scientist came along to reunite their minds with their newly created bodies. Locke and Kara have lost everything – the world has changed irrevocably, and their families and friends are all dead. All but the friend who meant the most to them – Jenna Fox.

I was surprised when I learned that Mary Pearson had written a sequel to The Adoration of Jenna Fox, as the book didn’t seem to need one. In fact, I found it refreshing to read a YA book that didn’t leave me hanging, waiting for the next book in the series. When I heard that she had written a sequel, I was a bit confused, at least until I read the blurb and realized that this is Locke’s and Kara’s story. Then I was intrigued.

This is dystopian fiction at its finest. The world that Locke and Kara have arrived in is very different than the one which they left. The United States has split into two countries. Mundane chores are done by bots. And there are more people out there like them – people made from Bio-Perfect, the material that was used to create their new bodies. Unfortunately, Locke and Kara don’t meet the standard set to determine who is an actual person, a standard named after their old friend, Jenna Fox.

Codes of medical ethics and the idea of human-ness – this novel lives at the place where these two themes intersect. The world-building is amazing, and Pearson does a fantastic job of making the reader question what it means to be a person. Dot, the bot that helps Locke and Kara on their quest to find Jenna, is a wonderful character – fully believable as a robot, but definitely more than machine.

While this is definitely a book about the world that exists in the future, it is still a character-driven novel. Locke and Kara embark on a quest to find Jenna – to find out why she didn’t rescue them 260 years ago when she was reanimated. Locke is hurt and confused – but more than that, he misses her. Kara, on the other hand, is angry. And Locke isn’t quite sure she is the same Kara that existed before the accident.

This is a must-read for fans of dystopian fiction. I don’t think you absolutely have to have read The Adoration of Jenna Fox to understand it, but it will certainly enhance your enjoyment.

Audio notes: This is Locke’s story, and he is perfectly narrated by Matthew Brown. My only complaint is about the way he pronounced the name “Allys.” When reading the first book, I read the name as pronounced like “Alice,” but in this book, he pronounced it “alleys,” which seemed awkward.

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Goodreads blurb: A terrible truth has been revealed to one man: the entire human race has been drained of every emotion except one — fear. To bring life back to the world, Rom must embark on a journey that will end either in his own demise or a reawakening of humanity. But to bring love and passion back into existence will also threaten the powers of the world with the revolution and anarchy that had nearly destroyed them previously.

After happening upon a journal through strange circumstance, Rom’s world is shattered. He learns that humanity long ago ceased to “live,” that it exists today in a living death of emotions. In a terrible risk, Rom exposes himself to the vial of blood folded into the old leather of the journal. His change is fearful and fraught with mind-bending emotion. A once-pious observer of the Order’s passionless statues, he is filled with uncontrollable impulses. He is filled with love.

He is undone, terrified, and alone in the desolate world.

Among the Faith and Fiction Round Table bloggers, those of us who liked Forbidden seem to be in the minority. The characters and story took a while to grow on me, but by about halfway through, I was hooked. It is dystopian fiction, and I think this is not a genre typically read by a lot of the others. I still expected it to provoke some great discussion, but it seems like people were less engaged in our discussion this time – me included, even though I enjoyed the book. I’m not sure if that is just due to the time of year – school starting, things getting busy, etc. – or because of the disconnect with the book itself.

The aspect of the book that provided the most discussion is the role of emotion in our lives. The future that Dekker and Lee write of is truly terrifying. Can you imagine living in a a world where the only emotion you ever experience is fear, and all its variations? Anxiety, stress, terror, worry…. you experience these every day, but without joy, peace, love, happiness, elation, anger, sadness. As someone who has previously struggled with panic attacks, this is a future that scares me deeply.

However, as a Christian, I can understand why it would be tempting to want to get rid of extreme emotions. So often, it is my emotions which lead me into temptation. By giving in to them, I often hurt myself or others. And yet God created us, and he created us with the capacity for great emotion. As with everything else He created, our emotions were damaged in the fall. Our ability to control them and to respond to them correctly was hurt, and so we must wage a daily battle between our flesh and our spirit. Emotion is a beautiful gift, and like all good gifts from our Creator, our enemy seeks to pervert them and use them to his advantage. Would I want to live in a world that got rid of rage and hatred and greed? Yes, and one day I will. But if it was offered to me now, with the understanding that it would cost me other emotions like love and joy….that simply wouldn’t be worth it.

I loved the scenes that described Rom’s first experience with other emotions – they were beautifully written. Some of the other bloggers were bothered that there wasn’t more of a concrete ending, but since I knew that this was the first book in a trilogy before I ever started reading, I wasn’t bothered by it. It ends in a logical place, without a huge cliffhanger, but leaving it obvious that the story is far from over. I have added this book to my Series Reading page, and look forward to the sequel.

Faith and Fiction Round Table Partcipants:
~ Heather at Book Addiction
~ Julie at Book Hooked Blog
~ Sheila at Book Journey
~ Jennifer at Crazy for Books
~ Ronnica at Ignorant Historian
~ Nicole at Linus’s Blanket
~ Amy at My Friend Amy (our gracious hostess)
~ Thomas at My Random Thoughts
~ Liz at Roving Reads
~ Sherry at Semicolon
~ Florinda at The 3 R’s Blog
~ Tina at Tina’s Book Reviews
~ Brooks at Victorious Cafe
~ Hannah at Word Lily

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David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, has a reporter’s nose. He can smell a story. He hears those little anecdotes or offhand comments that most of us barely take note of, and he chases the whole story down. Then he writes the story with human interest and unbiased honesty. I admit that some of the articles in this collection interested me more than others, but that was simply due to subject matter and not to writing style. Grann has become one of my favorite non-fiction authors.

Title: The Bourne Identity
Author: Robert Ludlum
Genre: Spy thriller
Publisher: Bantam
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Source: Audiobook from the public library
Audiobook reader: Scott Brick
First line: The trawler plunged into the angry swells of the dark, furious sea like an awkward animal trying desperately to break out of an impenetrable swamp.

It is interesting how different the book version of The Bourne Identity is from the film, which I saw first. The book was written in the middle of the Cold War, before computers, cell phones, and all the other gadgets we’re used to see strewn through modern spy thrillers. It made for a different story, but equally good. Ludlum knows how to spin a tale – but I wish he had edited it a bit more. There was a lot of repetition of phrases, a tactic that was meant to show the fractured state of Bourne’s mind, but listening to these mantras over and over on audio became a bit tedious. I will still continue the series, though, as I love the characters and the audiobook narrator.

Audio notes: Scott Brick is probably my favorite American audiobook narrator. His voice is smooth and dark and he alters it just enough for the different characters’ voices. He also is adept at various European accents, which is necessary for the Bourne books.

Title: While I Live
Author: John Marsden
Genre: YA dystopian fiction
Publisher: Scholastic
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Source: Print copy from my personal library
First line: We were halfway up the spur when we heard it.

Oh, how I missed Ellie! I loved Marsden’s Tomorrow, When the War Began series (You can find my reviews under his name on my Reviews by Author page.) and I was sad when I finished it. Then I discovered that he wrote a follow-up trilogy called the Ellie Chronicles, and I treated myself to them with some Christmas money at the beginning of the year. This book has everything I loved about that series: action, relationships, realistic emotion, and authentic characters. It picks up shortly after the last book in the Tomorrow series, and it felt like no time had gone by between finishing that one and starting this one. I am looking forward to the other two books in this trilogy, but I’m making myself wait just a bit, as I will hate to say goodbye to Ellie when I turn the last page.

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