There was little to no character development, little to no plot progress, and the writing was grating. THE DEATH CURE was a long walk to nothing.
THE DEATH CURE JAMES DASHNER SERIES
The concept of this series remains really interesting, but its execution is subpar. If you're going to have a Chosen One (which now he indisputably is) at least make him interesting. But that happened again here where we were and will forever be stuck with THOMAS. I don't know how I do it - it's a knack, I guess. And almost always, *somehow*, I pick the character that the author chooses to kill off or otherwise destroy in the next book. Usually when I continue a series I'm not particularly in love with, I'm in it for a character. and then end up in another wrong situation, from which he'd make (you guessed it!) the exact right choice to escape. Always making the exact right choices to get in the exact wrong situations from which he'd make the exact right choice to get out of. Thomas was at all times both omniscient and clueless. There's an awful lot of "Thomas now saw." and "Thomas understood that." and "It was obvious to Thomas." The deeper I got into the audiobook, the more grating these descriptions were. I want to call it a lot of "telling, not showing", but there's something to his verb choice that aggravates me. It's been a long time since I've read anything of Dashner's, so the writing style came at me like I was reading it for the first time.
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