Some Italian in the long, long ago tells us there's no thief like a bad book. 
 "THIEF! THIEF! THIEF! WE HATES IT, WE HATES IT, WE HATES IT FOREVER!" 
 Well stated, Gollum. 
 I can now be shut of Dashner forever. Why did I spend the last 14 days reading 1,061 pages of this tripe? Masochism? I want a cookie. I have the same gripes with this as with The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, so I won't reiterate them here. Just read those reviews if you really want to know. 
 I will say that this was an improvement over The Scorch Trials, and I didn't have to search for a reason to give it a second star. It's earned it. Instead of just 20 or so pages that distracted me from the bad writing enough for me to enjoy the story, there were 125+, most of it in the first third of the book, the rest near the end. Also, something unexpected happened when I found myself thinking about something. I didn't think I'd find anything thought provoking in this book, but I found myself wondering which side I would be on, and what choice I would make in a particular situation. But Dashner jerks us back to incoherency in a flash, and I was back to ignoring inanities, inconsistencies, contradictions, and plot holes you could sail the Queen Mary through. 
 I did like the ending. There's a lot of griping on here about it, but I thought it worked just fine. (view spoiler)[They're unable to make a cure in spite of all their effort, so a couple hundred people immune to the virus that's killing everyone are sent to a safe place, probably an island, to start repopulating the Earth. (If they weren't sent there they'd likely be killed off by the rest of the human race which was going murderously insane). (hide spoiler)] 
 The best part of this book was that it has 73 chapters and an epilogue spread over 325 pages. All the chapters start on a new page, so there were several instances where there was just a couple of lines on a page, and then glorious, glorious, glorious blank space. It made the pages turn that much quicker, and I'm grateful. 
 Oh, I can't get these books to Goodwill fast enough, and I'm definitely not reading the prequel which came with this set. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good riddance.