The Kill Order (The Maze Runner #0.5)

 The Kill Order

(The Maze Runner #0.5)

By  
James Dashner




My Rating: 5
Genre: YA, Sci Fi, Dystopia, Fantasy
Finished on: Feb 11th, 2015


James Dashner.
This Book.
I... have no words.
I honestly don't.
I still don't believe I actually got done with this book. I remember after finishing TDC I had vowed myself to never read James Dashner's read again.
TMR was a nightmare I could never forget. It was hard to come out of the world Dashner had pulled me into.
I was stuck, I couldn't get out. And maybe this was the reason I had chosen to read TKO. I don't know which crazy part of my mind had felt that this read might be the solution or the missing piece of the puzzle for me to get out of this nightmare.
I was wrong, so wrong. It just made it worse, much worse.
This book described the origin of it all. I couldn't help but recount TMR and the characters and the pain I felt along with them.
This book was a cruel joke.
In TMR Thomas kept hoping there would be a cure and I kept hoping with him only to get heart broken in the end.
But in TKO, when Mark kept hoping for a cure, all I did was laugh softly,then harder then hardest enough to clutch my stomach and let the moisture fall from my eyes and consume me.
If only authors knew what it is when they play with readers feelings.

There was never a cure. But mark kept hoping. I didn't make the mistake like I did with Thomas. I stayed silent and read.
Read till the end.
Recounted how everybody had died. How they had suffered. This was not a happy ending.
Some stories HAVE to depict the reality. To prove the point that every story need not have a happy ending. This was one of them.. until I thought about it.
This WAS a happy ending. After dying they were in a better place compared to the world they had been living in.
Realizing that, satisfaction took me over.

Until comes the epilogue.
I hate epilogue, always hated them.
The moment I realized the scene I was reading.. Little Thomas being taken away to find the so called cure, away from his dying mother, dying family.. to find the so called cure! I knew how I would be going to react.
The moment the woman said to Thomas's mother that they PROMISE to find a cure and left, leaving the mother to pour out her feelings and get absorbed in her tears, I gave in.
The tears came and I cried along with his mother, the tears never stopped.


P.S- I don't know why this review came out so depressing. Apologies.

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