The Kill Order by James Dashner | Rating: ★★★★☆“Scared. That’s good. A fine soldier is always scared. Makes you normal. It’s how you respond to it that makes or breaks you.”
The Kill Order serves as a prequel to the bestselling The Maze Runner trilogy and it had a lot to live up to in my mind. Each of the books in the original trilogy fast became some of my favorite books released in recent years and I was a little skeptical on this prequel. As we all know, prequels can go one of two ways: good or bad.
And to be honest, I wasn’t quite sure what the prequel would contain when you come to realize that this takes place some odd years before our trilogy and introduces us to a whole world of new characters and the decline that took place during the first year or so after their world falls victim to either the sun flares that destroyed many and the disease that we came to know in the original trilogy.
As usual James Dashner paints a vivid picture of this troubled world that will leave you feeling oddly curious and also a little disturbed by the madness that follows these damaging times. We’re familiar with these tales and what happens to ones mind if they catch this deadly disease, and in The Kill Order we see, in flashes, how it all began. And it definitely isn’t pretty.
