Oh. my. goose. That was.... 
 utterly crazy, fantastical, wild, predictable, exciting, and un-putdownable (it's a word, trust me.) 
 I've been wanting to read this book for at least two years now, but haven't gotten around to it. Eventually, after paying a visit to the marvelous McNally, I saw it and reminded myself to order it at the library. Well! I'll definitely be making another visit to McNally and purchasing this wonderful book! 
 Ah, but, let me be concise. 
 Actually, no. Let me be wordy, blabberous (another word, believe me,) and a general raving lunatic of joy (and madness)! 
 This book was so exciting and so terrifying and so dark and so dystopic that I simply could not put it down. I read a few chapters this morning and then put it aside to complete the duties on my list. As soon as my jobs for the day were done, I read. And read. And read. And finished the blasted the thing. 
 This book is a true YA dystopia that doesn't revolve around the whole premise of an emotionless (love-less) society that isn't really all that loveless because there are two hot boys for a heroine to fall in lust love with. Anyway.... This book was truly horrifying in an amazing sort of way. 
 James Dashner weaves an incredible story out of it and his characters are all great. However, I'm disappointed in the lack of females. There was one measly female. (view spoiler)[You're telling me that the only geniuses that WICKED could find to use as lab rats were boys. That's a load of klunk. (hide spoiler)] 
 So that annoyed me. The other thing that caused me to shave off a star was how predictable it was. Yeah, it was exciting, but I kind of expected what was going to happen. I still was on the edge of my seat and into it, but it could have been more intense. 
 Still, I loved this book. Loved it, loved it. I'm def going to be reading the next one.