Minho and Thomas run through the maze, and Minho points out various memory and map-making tricks.  I care about none of them, because all of this has been rendered moot by the fact that the maze repeats itself monthly and they know that.  Why are you making new maps of a repeat pattern? They stop…

This is the part of the game where I go “screw it, how fast can I get through this book?  If it’s not done by the end of the week, I’m stopping until after NaNo.” Thomas and Newt go to get food while Thomas mopes about being special.  Newt mentions that no one has even…

Remember, last chapter Minho suggested that Thomas be made leader of the runners for coming up with one trick and no evidence that he’s good at leading or that his actions weren’t a fluke. Gally finally broke the spell, standing up. “That’s ridiculous!” He faced Newt and pointed back at Minho, who had taken his…

The two kids stay by the cliff until dawn and don’t get bothered by anything else in all that time.  When morning comes, we see that the cliff is miles high and they apparently can’t see the bottom of it. …two years looking for an exit to this maze, and clearly here we have an…

We get another description of the Grievers.  It’s basically a big monster slug with weird metal bits that pop in and out of it at random.  It also shoots out metal spikes, then rolls along the ground, then sucks the spikes back in again.  I’m having a really hard time picturing this.  Wouldn’t the spikes…