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_ren's reviews
60 reviews
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Gun violence, Vomit, and Death of parent
Minor: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, and Alcohol
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Violence, Grief, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content, and Alcohol
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
Minor: Grief and Gaslighting
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
Way too plot-based, and has too much mystery. It's to the point where I didn't understand the Godhead and Remanent Nation until 60% of the way through the book. I ended up only connecting with Minho, Issac, and Roxy, and that was basically only because they were the most fleshed out. Dashner definitely didn't spend enough time showing us each of the character's personality traits, their dynamics, and just ground work exposition that makes me FEEL for these characters. I know Dashner could have done so much better, as I read the first few chapters of Eyes of Mind (another series by Dashner) at the end of The Maze Cutter, and instantly felt that there was much more exposition and character ground work that made me FEEL for the characters than the entire Maze Cutter and its characters. :/ Honestly, I never leave 1-star reviews because I know how tedious it can be to create characters, a world, and a book, but this is my first one-star because it is just Dashner milking TMR and tarnishing the the main TMR trilogy and the respectable Fever Code prequel (we ain't gonna mention The Kill Order bc that's where this plot-based, empty characters BS started). All in all, don't read this book for the lore (you can't even understand it), don't read this book for the characters (they don't matter), and don't read this book for the subpar plot (does not start, develop, or end in the best ways it could).
There is almost no reason to read this book.
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Abandonment
Moderate: Gaslighting
Minor: Terminal illness, Blood, and Pandemic/Epidemic
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Confinement, Mental illness, Grief, and Murder
Minor: Child death and Abandonment
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Bullying, Gun violence, and Blood
Minor: Vomit and Abandonment
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Mental illness and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death of parent
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Body horror, Genocide, Gore, Blood, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic