The Kill Order.

The Kill Order, by James Dashner.

 
Sun flares have unleashed devastation on the Earth. Mark and Trina were there when it happened, and against the odds they survived.

But now a violent and highly contagious disease is spreading like wildfire. Worse still, it's mutating, and people are going crazy. Mark and Trina will do anything to save their friends - if only they can avoid madness and stay alive...

This is the prequel to the Maze Runner series, which I've already posted reviews about, so feel free to have a look!
 
To begin with I found this book quite hard to get into, as I had literally just finished The Death Cure, so I had to go from one set of characters that I knew to a completely different group of characters in the same world with similar problems. It doesn't sound very confusing, but my brain just couldn't cope and I kept on forgetting who everyone was.
 
As with all the books in the Maze Runner series, this was also completely action packed, in my opinion too much action. I think that the action kind of took away from the story line, and made it slightly predictable and repetitive... there's a problem, they fight their way out of the situation, then they run into another problem, and fight their way out of that too, and this more or less carried on throughout the whole book. 

There were lots of new characters in this book, some of which I absolutely loved, particularly Alec, an old war veteran. He was so tough and harsh on the outside, but on the inside he was loving and soft and he always put others before himself. And of course there were plenty of characters I hated from the word go!;)
 
This book was helpful, it answered a few of my questions I had after finishing the other books in the series, but at the same time I don't think you'll miss out on too much if you don't read it. It kind of told you about how the Flare came about but only to some extent, I don't think they said enough about that part really, and I was more or less expecting the whole book to be about that in particular, I didn't really think there was much else to write about but of course there was.


I did enjoy this book and I did find it quite helpful, but if for any reason you can't or don't want to read this book, you won't be missing out on anything great in my opinion.




I would also like to apologise for my laziness, in my last post I said I'd post in the next two weeks, and it's been two months! :O I'm sorry, I didn't mean for that to happen, I just get distracted super easily and have absolutely no motivation to do things, but I will try and be better! Thank you for being patient with me, I really appreciate it!:D