I'm not quite sure whether I like this book or not. It's strange. I didn't like the characters very much nor the story was really appealing. It had this Ender's Game feel... but the result/end seemed rather stupid to me, or better said, I just wondered: "why didn't they think of that before?". And I had this deja-vu, kind-of bugging feeling that this story is repeating another one I know, but never come to any title or anything, it was just a feeling... Perhaps the Creators erased my memories too, perhaps we all are inside the Maze... Perhaps there's no spoon... Perhaps... Ok, ok, I stop now... :P 
 I don't know, I give it 3 (rather 3.5) stars waiting for The Scorch Trials. The Maze Runner was entertaining and somehow catches my interest enough to want to read the rest of the trilogy. That's something :)