** spoiler alert ** 
 Okay, so, couple things: First, if you don't like rants, spoilers or if you loved this book and are going to tell me that I'm wrong and this is the greatest book EVERRRRRR, stop reading. Second, if you hate this book, Thomas or Brenda, please continue to read. 
 So, book three has us back at WICKED headquarters. After being told he is Immune, Thomas is finally reunited with his friends. Too freaking bad he doesn't know half of them. I mean seriously, he has spent how many hours and days with these people and he DOESN'T BOTHER LEARNING THEIR NAMES?! That's just freaking douchey. And then Thomas thinks to himself (again) how he never bothered to learn their names is even worse. Like he knows he's a douche and he just doesn't do anything to change it. But don't worry, when he gets kidnapped later in the story, Thomas DOES learn the name of his kidnapper/driver person. Ugh, Thomas you are SO STUPID. 
 After two books of listening to Thomas whine about not having any memories, he FINALLY gets the opportunity to get them back and he refuses! Now, I can understand not wanting the people you don't trust to be in your head again, but when he goes to see the other guy, the one Brenda trusts, ergo, Thomas trusts, he doesn't even offer but Thomas is straight up, "I don't want my memories!" WHAT?! He's afraid he'll understand why WICKED is doing what they are and he'll go back to them or something like that. I call BS on that. MAYBE since Thomas used to work for WICKED, his memories might, I don't know, HELP them take down WICKED? But no, Thomas has to be whiny and not get his memories back. And then he has to continually remind us that he can't remember things! Dude, you can't have it both ways! Also, he gets a little upset when some of his friends (okay, Frypan and Teresa because they are the only two we really know) want their memories back! What?! You can't be upset when THEY choose it for themselves! That's NOT your call, Thomas. Idiot. And oh, look at that... Teresa got her memories back and she didn't go back to thinking WICKED was the greatest thing ever! In fact, she hates WICKED now... except you don't believe her. But your excuse is invalid, Thomas. 
 And then there's Brenda. Who the hell are you? I don't like you. She lied to Thomas too, you know. She did it because she was working for WICKED. Teresa lied to Thomas because WICKED said they'd kill him otherwise, and she didn't want that. But Teresa is not to be trusted and we must have rage and anger at her, but Brenda lied? Well she's working with us now, so whatever, I still like her. Plus she kisses me on the cheek a lot and I like that. I HATE the way the author tries to shove Brenda down my throat and tries so hard to make Teresa out to be the bad guy. Teresa got too little page time in the last two books to even begin to fight for Thomas. And that sucks. Way to freaking not even give Teresa a chance. I'm sorry you had to be replaced like that Teresa. If it makes you feel better, I hate Brenda too. 
 Ugh I can't get over how STUPID Thomas is. Him, Minho, Newt, Brenda and Jorge escape WICKED and go to Denver in search of their other friends. They have to leave Newt in the Berg (seriously, what is a "Berg"? I keep picturing a blimp thing like the Hindenburg. And we all know how well that turned out.) Anyway, they have to leave Newt in the Berg because Denver is quarantined and Newt is infected. While there, they have breakfast at a coffee shop. The... quarantine police? Someone comes and finds an infected person. Brenda tells Thomas they need to go, like now, but when Brenda tells him to run, he doesn't because he wants to see what happens when they take down the infected guy... and almost gets himself killed/kidnapped because of his stupidity! This is only one example of his many stupid stunts in the book. 
 They go back to check on Newt and find he's been taken to the Crank Palace. Minho insists they go get him, so they go track him down but Newt sends them away. It's obvious he's succumbing to the Flare and it's sad. He's especially mad at Thomas, but Thomas can't figure out why... until he remembers Newt gave him a note. Wow, Thomas, great friend you are. Newt didn't want to live as a crazy person, so he asked Thomas to kill him. 
 Thomas, Minho, Brenda and Jorge are kidnapped after leaving the Crank Palace and returning to chaos. Denver has been taken over by Cranks. When they are taken to the kidnappers holding place they find Aris, Teresa and several others from Group B (that Thomas and ergo, we have never learned their names). Upon seeing Aris, Thomas realizes he has no hard feelings about what happened in the Scorch! But Teresa?! Oh no, she still is an awful person! He hated her but missed her... he doesn't want to hear her out. But he does, and then is mad at himself when he listens to her. OH MY GOD. Thomas, you're a shuck-faced slinthead and Teresa was way better off without you. You can't believe a word Teresa says but you can trust freaking Brenda?! You don't trust Teresa because she didn't come to your way of thinking until AFTER she got her memories back? Maybe she remembered something IMPORTANT and that's why she understands why you hate them now! Didn't think of it that way did you? You're just too caught up in your "poor me, Teresa betrayed me because she didn't think she had a choice and I'd be killed if she didn't" mindset to be smart about anything. I want to beat your face in and feed you to the Cranks, Thomas. 
 So Thomas and the others overpower the kidnappers and demand to see the boss. Turns out it's the Right Arm and Gally... they want to take down WICKED and need Thomas and the others to do it. So Thomas decides he'll go back to WICKED voluntarily to help them out. When Thomas goes back to WICKED for the last time, I did like that he was the Final Candidate because he was a free thinker. His open rebellion, the fact he wouldn't follow the orders he'd been given unlike Teresa, was what caused them to want him the most. It was probably the best "twist" in the book. However, the fact that they didn't search Thomas when he got there; that they trusted him... seemed far-fetched because of the fact that he'd been openly rebelling against them from the beginning of the book. The fact they'd let him plant the device without them knowing... just too convenient. The ending happened too fast and neatly. 
 Poor Newt, this whole time is probably the only person I like, aside from Teresa. No, scratch that, at the end I liked Gally too. He had a good head on his shoulders even though he ended up on Thomas's side. Gally you were right about Thomas in the beginning, he's stupid! Don't follow him! Two out of three that I liked were given the shaft. Newt's death was sad, but at least his got more screen time than Teresa's. GAH! Teresa's death! Thomas, like an idiot, stands there and watches a piece of ceiling falling toward him that will crush him and WHO runs and pushes him out of the way?! Not shucking Brenda, that's for sure! Teresa does, of course, because as she says as she's dying... she only ever cared for... well I'm going to assume it's Thomas, but we will never know because stupid Minho and Brenda drag him away before she can even finish the sentence. Just a convenient way to get rid of Teresa so Thomas doesn't have to choose, because in the end, AS SHE'S DYING, Thomas realizes that he isn't really mad at her anymore. Screw you Thomas. I'm sorry again, Teresa, that you got the shaft. But honestly, you're WAY too good for that shuck-face, Thomas. He's an idiot. I hope you live out your afterlife happy without him. 
 And after they rescue the 200 out of 400-500 people from the Maze... yes, they sucked so bad they lost 200-300 people... and they have their final battle with the crazy Rat Man, they end up in paradise. And Thomas "lets" Minho be the leader, not wanting another ounce of responsibility ever. Well I hate to break it to you, Thomas, but you never were a leader. I don't care what those stupid plaques said. A leader would bother to learn the names of the 20 or so people he was stuck in a room with for three days with nothing to do but stare at the walls. You're just some shuck faced loser that was always told he was special but you really weren't. 
 Over all I give this entire series 2.2 stars. It wasn't great, it wasn't better than the Hunger Games. Not even close. It was entertaining and kept me interested, if only to see what stupid idiotic thing Thomas would do next. I probably won't recommend it to anyone, but I won't discourage people from reading it either.