Book Review 3

After reading the Gone series by Michael Grant, The Maze Runner series by James Dashner and the Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs, all being part of the science fiction genre, I think that they all connect in multiple ways. In the Gone series a huge white down appears around Perdido beach and a large surrounding area. All the parents have disappeared and now the all the children are growing supernatural powers. In the Maze Runner Series a group of boys are in this closure blocked off by huge walls. They must run through the maze to survive the “trial” and learn where they are and how they got there. They encounter dangers and many complications throughout the books. In the Peculiar Children series Jacob meets a group of other kids from the past and joins them to escape from the “monsters” trying to kill them. They then go on an adventure full of life risking events to save their guardian. All of these books have the same genre of a mixture between science fiction and magic realism. All of these books except Maze Runner are placed in a realistic world with some supernatural event which lists them as magic realism. In Maze Runner the world is futuristic and can include an apocalyptic view with spacecrafts and such fitting it into science fiction. All of these books also show a connection by having a group of teenagers that work together to solve the conflict with several complications that try to stop them. In Gone, Sam and Astrid have to stop Caine and the rest of his crew from destroying and raiding Perdido Beach. In Maze Runner, Thomas and his gang of friends must escape the maze while being attacked by creatures of the unknown. And in the Peculiar children book, they go together in a group to save their guardian. Another connection I made between the characters of these books is that the main character falls in love with another semi-main character of the book. Same falls in love with Astrid. Jacob falls in love with Emma and Thomas falls in love with Teresa. All together I think that these books were really good due to the way they were written and how they all have teenagers as main characters so that it is easy to connect to them.