What i like about the book is that it is so descriptive, which will make you live and imagine things as if you are one of the gladers. I like the new characters too, especially Brenda and George. 
 But i don't know, there's something about the book that i didn't like, maybe because the concept of the maze is gone, which was the first and the main thing that attracted me to this series. 
 Another thing is that the book doesn't answer the unanswered questions of the first book, i was hoping to know more about WICKED, i was hoping to know more about the life of Thomas and Teresa before the events of the Maze runner when they were a part of WICKED, i mean even the main question "why the gladers are doing what they're doing?" no one knows, they're just doing it because WICKED asked them to do so, and promised them to get a cure. 
 To me, this book doesn't add too much to the story, so yeah i like the first book more than this one. 
 i watched the movie right after finishing the book, and trust me when i tell you that the movie adaptation is not an adaptation, it is more like a new story!! 
 I thought i was gonna like "yeah, yeah..yeah i know what's next" but no they changed the story completely, COMPLETELY!! From the first scene of the movie till the last. 
 Throughout the entire movie, i was like "this wasn't on the book!!" on the other side my brother was like "you have just said that..............15 times!!" 
 I would honestly say that the movie is more like a retelling than an adaptation, which was weird but good, the scorch trials the Movie doesn't contain any trials!!! Which is the main thing in the book, idk why they name it "scorch trials"!! 
 i don't know, to me the beginning of the movie was better than the beginning of the book, but the way the book ended was better than the end of the movie. 
 One more thing to say, in the movie, even the epilogue was different which only means one thing, the next movie will also be different to the next book! Because they will start from something that wasn't there in the book! 
 Excited? YES!