(Maybe it did a number on his personality as well-who knows?) Not until the middle did things begin to sag. Thomas is a bit bland, but not unlikeable.and you tend to give him a break over the whole mind-wipe thing. The story started out at a very readable, rapid clip, with well executed action scenes that carried things steadily forward. (And that can't really be revealed without ruling out several possible theories readers will most likely come up with in an increasingly desperate attempt to explain the setting and circumstances.) This reader actually wasn't sure what sub-genre this book was (dystopian or sci-fi?) up until the very end. Thomas promptly proves to be an unwitting herald for “the end” of life as they boys have come to know it.Īnd that's about as far as I can go without dropping spoilers left and right due to the “whodunnit?”/“whytheydunnit?” plot setup. The Creators are, presumably, those responsible for the bizarre social experiment going on, and the deadly maze-like conditions found outside of the “Glade” where the boys have established their own quasi-civilization. He is then thrust into a contained farm-like environment with somewhere around sixty other boys who've all been inflicted with the same amnesic condition by forces the boys refer to as the “Creators.” Thomas awakens in an elevator-like box, unable to remember anything personal about himself aside from his name. Readers start out with a blank slate-or nearly-in the teenage character of Thomas.
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