Book Review: The Lost Symbol

Long time no post! Sorry about that. Graduation's this Thursday and we've been busy taking care of final stuff before the school year ends. Anyway, during all these activities I've managed to squeeze in some reading time. This time I decided to re-read The Lost Symbol  by Dan Brown. During this read, though, I can definitely say that I understood The Lost Symbol 100 times better than I did when I last read it (2 years ago). 

Book Review: The Death Cure

The Death Cure is more than just the final book of the Maze Runner trilogy. Other than ending the trilogy, it's also where we learn more about the characters' past world. In the Death Cure, we receive a few answers for some of our questions beginning with "why". But then again, like the previous books, the questions with the most juicy answers are the ones not cleared. (sigh) And I don't consider it as an "ending" either.

Native Union Switch Speaker Review

Hello! Just a few days ago I received this one heck of a speaker from Digits Trading (thanks, Digits Trading!). And you won't believe how awesome it is. I swear, its awesomeness is so surreal that instead of blabbering about its awesomeness (like what I always do), I have prepared a series of facts so you can realize how great it is. 

But first, here's what it looks like.

And now for our facts!

The Scorch Trials: Blazing With Enigma (Book Review)

Some men just want to watch the world burn. And for James Dashner, that statement is not merely a figure of speech. Dashner's sequel to the question-inducing Maze Runner is a fiery hot mixture of mysteries, problems, trials, deaths, (yes, deaths) and twists that will leave your questions barely answered. BARELY.

• Title: The Scorch Trials
• Author: James Dashner
• Genre: science fiction, Dystopian, young adult
• Pages: 368 pages
• Series: The Maze Runner

"Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to.

In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety . . . until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.

Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. Government has disintegrated—and with it, order—and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim . . . and meal.

The Gladers are far from finished with running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.

Thomas can only wonder—does he hold the secret of freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED?"

To be honest, if it weren't for the suspense effect that Dashner uses, I would be totally disappointed about The Scorch Trials. If you've read The Maze Runner, you'll be disappointed that you've read it from cover to cover without getting an explanation to the abnormal things that have been happening to Thomas, the protagonist. Now imagine what you would feel if you read another whole book yet once again the explanation you are longing for is not there. I've got a couple of words for that: utter disappointment.