The Fever Code (The Maze Runner Series)

    So The Kill Order was not what I was expecting for a sequel. But this, The Fever Code was what I was looking forward to! You got a good prequel when you finish and start all over again with the first book! Like reading in a circle! And that is exactly what I did! This brings so much light to book #1! Love it!
    If you read Book #1 and was confused, read The Fever Code first.


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    I wonder how much of The Fever Code was put together while the original book was being written. I do see a few possible flaws... or an attempt to correct flaws.

  One that stood out was Thomas' first meeting with Teresa which is recorded in the end of The Kill Order. In The Kill Order Thomas is younger about 5 maybe, and meets Teresa is told about how they will get implant to let them telepathy communicate and they are given rooms that are connected by a shared living area.
  This does not happen in The Fever Code. The explanation being his memory was erased due to the meeting going badly but we never know exactly what went wrong during this meeting. I guess this is being explained in that the first time he met Teresa he was fresh from being tortured to except his new name. He is much too unstable to handle everything they are telling him. That's my guess anyway... But I want to know when these memories where erased? Cause he seems to have a massive headache before he goes to meet her the second time and he feels as though this has happened before which was a few years back but he just got the implant then so when did they erase the memories? A few years before or the day he meet her again? And wouldn't that mean he should have known her when he met her in the hall before the implant because he couldn't have had his memories wiped yet because he doesn't have the implant in there to be able to do it yet... am I'm making since? How did they erase his memories if they were erased before he got the implant? There's no explanation that I see.


Another thing I noticed was memories her had in the Scorch Trials did not happen in The Fever Code. I remember a scene where he and Teresa are hiding behind a door eavesdropping.

  Another scene where Thomas does not want to communicate with Teresa via the telepathy but the creators want him too and Teresa is trying to get him to do it. I did come up with a explanation for that because they started talking like that to each other before officially told them too and then a number of years are skipped where this moment could have happened if for some reason he was unhappy with what Wicked was telling him to do and rebelling against them that way.

  The biggest flaw is Chapter 53 of The Scorch Trials. Thomas has a "memory-dream" where they Thomas and Rachael are going in to get their memories wiped to go into the maze. The Fever Code completely contradicts this ever happening... there is no way around it. Thomas was drugged and had his memory taken when the plan was not to do that. The letter at the end of The Fever Code was a pretty cool twist but does contradict the opening of The Kill Order. There she believes she also is going to get her memory wipe to go into the maze. The only way around that is she was aware they were going to wipe their memories and she thought her to, but she is loyal to WICKED so she goes with it. After Thomas is inserted she is then told of the plan that she is going in memory intact.

But enough of that!

    At last! We finally find out Thomas' real name! Stephen. When rereading Book #1 there is a clue to his name that you would not catch if you didn't know it. In the cemetery Thomas comes across the grave of a boy named Stephen. This sparks a sadness in him for an unknown reason. We know now that it is his real name.

  And I loved they gave a back story to Newt. I wasn't expecting that. He is such a tragic character! It sort of makes you feel better that at least his sister got out of all that alive!

  Ugh, Dr. Paige... she goes and kills a bunch of people to keep the trials going then bails when it comes to killing her favorite "subject". Is this the real reason she didn't let him die in the Scorch? She cared to much about him? Did they really have all they needed or was she just saying that to get them out of there. In her last letter she announces that they had failed. Is it just me or are we in need of a sequel to this?

  And good ole Teresa...the first time through I did not know how I felt about that girl... lol, still not completely sure. The Kill Order did gives us a look at her pasted that was beyond tragic. Had that shaped her to never let feelings get in the way of what WICKED told her to do? I think she cared about Thomas but they had two different takes on WICKED being good. That started the betrayal. Wicked used her for all she was worth. Actually she's another pretty tragic character in this story too.

  Now time to see how they turn this into a movie... there is so much good material in this, I don't know how they could mess it up! But look at the Hunger Games, what they did with that one was water it down to a superficial children's female super hero move and the depth of that book was what made it so special! The movie was stupid! The movie didn't even make a lot of since!

    But I'll stop raving on about the Hunger Games... I'm suppose to be talking about The Maze Runner...

   Again, don't recommend these for kids due to violence, mild language, and the topic of suicide.

The Kill Order (The Maze Runner Series)

 This book was not what I was exspecting. (See my post on The Death Cure to see what I expected) Below (warning, LOTS of spoilers, you will be warned before you get there) I'll tell you what I got. Before I get there though let talk about this book in general.
   Um... wow, this book was not what I expected it to be. This was suppose to be a prequel to The Maze Runner Trilogy. Read my review of

Was it good? Yes!

Was it really a prequel? Yes.

Did reading it mentally wreak me? YES!

    I mean this thing was intense... I'll just warn you, this story will play with your emotions. Not much down time when it comes to action.

    The story actually does not circle around any of the main characters of the original trilogy which I was quite confused by, but it is relevant to the over all story. It's an interesting direction to go in for a prequel... but pretty brilliant if you just sit back and trust the author and where he is going with it.

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    As I said above... this is NOTHING of what I expected it to be!

    I thought something was up when the Epilogue started with Thomas being put into the Maze which obviously is where the story picks up in the beginning. Shortest prequel ever. Then first chapter does go back in time. 13 years in the Appalachian Mountains. I was confused cause I was thinking this was going to be about Thomas and suddenly we are following this kid named Mark. I know from book #1 that all the kids where renamed but this Mark was too old to be Thomas and couldn't see how he was anyone else in the trilogy either. I was skeptical at how much I would like this at the beginning. So many unanswered questions and now I'm starting to have to learn a whole new set of characters! What is this?

    I did like reading how the whole thing started. I liked how the author would jump to the bargaining of the sun flares in between the current story. I lived in NYC at one point and have spent time in the Appalachians Mountains but not so far as where they ended up. I spent time in what is called the Crystalline Appalachians which is in the area of New Jersey. Beautiful place (See my review of Star Wars Planet of Twilight to see my adventure in the Crystalline Appalachians)

    Then Dee Dee shows up and I think I might know what is happening now. This little girl is close to Thomas and Teresa's age though a little older by about too years, Thomas was 16 in The Maze Runner I assumed so was Teresa (I don't remember it being mentioned) So that made this girl a little to old for Teresa, that would have made her about 18 in The Maze Runner. Not impossible but I still was not sure if she was suppose to be Teresa or not. Rather confused my best theory was Dee Dee was Teresa... then after a very tear jerking end... END, as the authors "thank you"s was the next page It was NEVER clear who Dee Dee was or what happened to her! Yeah, like Rogue One, everyone dies... except Dee Dee.

    After letting the emotions die after reading the end I explored the last pages where normally a preview of another book in normally found but not this book... the book did not end at the author's acknowledgement page. I found Teresa's secret file! Here we jump ahead a few years and Thomas is back in the story. It is here we find out for sure Teresa was in fact Dee Dee but we still are left in the dark about Thomas' real name even though we do find out how he was renamed Thomas after the inventor Thomas Edison.

   And also, even though Teresa was in the story there is not a lot of her so we know where she came from her but just starting to understand who she is.

    This was a very cleverly written prequel but I was disappointed I got no answers about a lot of things.... so.... I took a look at the cover of The Fever Code, maybe that would give me a hint if this author ever planned on telling us what happen during the creation of the maze and more about the characters in the trilogy, their back story. I was washed over with relief, the front cover says it is about the creation of the Maze! I'm pretty sure The Fever Code is the last book in The Maze Runner's series... but I have to wonder if there will ever be a sequel…


(P D June 27th 2019)
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