Top 3 James Dashner Books

Youth literature has an almost polarized fondness between romantic genres (adolescent version) and fantasy or science fiction. You know, publishing industry mandates that it thinks it knows where to strike a sure hit among early readers.

Although also, to be fair, we can find other types of books cataloged for kids that contribute something more, either in hybrids with previous genres or even with other approaches that manage to escape the official dictates and end up surprising everyone with their great repercussion. I remember with great affection The world of Sofia, by Gaarder, for example, a brutal success with philosophical overtones ...

In the case of James dashner we found the author of juvenile novels by definition in its fantastic side. And honestly, if I have to opt for genres, typically defined by publishers, I prefer fantasy to romantic.

In my opinion, it is better to enter our children in a world of millions of possibilities for imagination (that great tool for all future development) than not to engulf them in sentimental stories (sometimes) that seem to obfuscate them and take them more to that world apart in the than reliving their emotions in solitude.

And yes, you may be thinking that the important thing is that the trainees read whatever it is, awakening that interaction with a language that will be essential for their fullest development. If it is a matter of taste, once the adaptation by age has been assumed, let them read what they want, of course. There you have Blue Jeans to John Green, but where is one Laura Gallego, J.K. Rowking or James Dashner himself and his forays into exciting sagas ...

Top 3 Recommended Novels by James Dashner

The maze Runner

The first installment of the saga "The maze runner" caused that great leap to the international market of the author. A proposal that compensates fantasy with an existentialist point of view from the most youthful point of view.

That is, young people who face survival with that point of epic that always offers the recreation of a dystopian world, appearing out of nowhere to expose its characters to the most intense dangers and the darkest and most indeterminate foundations.

Assuming the destiny of the boys locked up on the other side of a labyrinth that they must face every day in search of their salvation means taking the boys into ingenuity, into clues, into confronting their fears. Nobody knows how or why more children are arriving at that ignominious place.

But it is also true that if a wicked mind has raised this as a dangerous game for their entertainment, perhaps they did not expect that finally the children can face the challenge with greater guarantees of success.

Either that or end up succumbing to your fears. Until one day she arrives, the first girl to be assigned to such a prison known as "the clearing." She is Teresa, and together with Thomas they will be able to form a good leadership team towards their final getaway.

The maze Runner

The deadly cure

The third and final part of the clearing and the labyrinth (prequels presented later separately) acquires maximum tension between the boys stripped of their memory and faced with the struggle of survival, not knowing very well what they may find once they escape from there. .

Thomas has spent an indeterminate time in a private seclusion. And finally Cruel frees him along with his forgetful friends. Like any end of an intense saga, we face losses of characters that greatly affect the background.

But of course, to reach the final ecstasy, the counterbalance of some loss must emerge to further intensify the reading. It is difficult to delve into a development and an ending without falling into the maddening spoiler.

Just point out that Dashner knew, even at the cost of being a tad heavy in development, to offer one of those endings that seem to be transferred to our world due to their great intensity and emotion.

The deadly cure

The infinite game

The "Mortality Doctrine" saga intensifies that dystopian sensation extended to our entire world. It is no longer just "the clearing" and its characters trapped in limbo in front of the labyrinth.

There is no greater dystopia today than one that seems to approach from the virtual, from a space in which Artificial Intelligences approach with their first collaborative intention but with their unpredictable capacity towards any other less positive will.

In this first part we get to know Red Virtual, the most famous game among young boys. Michael is a very gifted gamer and capable of hacking the game at will for his own benefit.

But his gifts are suddenly required by the government to find a threat that seems to want to jump from the cyber world to the real one. And then the game will take on another dimension. And the competition will put Michael in front of his most cruel and powerful nemesis.

The infinite game
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1 comment on “The 3 best books by James Dashner”

  1. The trilogy of the infinite game in my favorite without leaving aside the Maze runner that is also very good

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