The Death Cure by James Dashner

The Death Cure was a brilliant and thoughtful final book to a brilliant and thoughtful series.  Thomas and everybody in group A and group B start out in the main WICKED building, about to receive their memories.  Thomas, Minho, and Newt refuse, and they are led by Brenda to escape.  From there, longstanding ideas in the previous books are inverted as we finally figure out whether WICKED is good.  The twists are constant, and this doesn't feel cheesy.  In fact, some of the best parts were the twists in the very epilogue -- an explanation of the Flare virus surfaces that is much more sinister.

I loved The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials. This third installment did not disappoint me.  Watch out if you want to see all of the main characters survive.  More than one doesn't.  Their deaths are chilling and heartbreaking at the same time.  In fact, their deaths, along with the death of Chuck from The Maze Runner, drive most of Thomas's actions.  In a world where WICKED could control anything, Thomas becomes incredibly attached to those he holds in his circle of trust.

The one large, glaring flaw in the book was the electricity grenades.  Electricity, as far as I know, does not work the way it does in the grenades.  Their power source would be better described as "magic".  The inaccuracies on electricity make the battle scene in the beginning a lot less harrowing than it could have been otherwise.  However, they are rarely used subsequently, so the author's lack of knowledge about electricity can easily be pardoned in the context of it being a great book.