Name: Crank Palace
Rating: 4.2 (45 reviews)
ISBN: 9781705238783

James Dashner

Mark Deakins

Crank Palace

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Tommy. Minho. Brenda. Jorge. Walking away. Out the door.

"I love you, Newt, and my children will grow up loving you.”

Newt has been to hell and back with his friends. The Glade. The Maze. The Scorch. The inner halls of WICKED. But now he has a burden that can’t be shared with Thomas and the others—the Flare. And Newt can’t bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado. From there, he experiences the gritty nightmare of life on the streets, running from the infected and those hunting them, until he ends up in the Crank Palace, the last dumping ground of those without hope. Although Newt thought he was running away from his friends to save them from himself, along the way he meets a young mother named Keisha and her son, Dante, who end up saving Newt in a way he could never have imagined. Taking place during the latter events of The Death Cure, Crank Palace tells the story of Newt like never before, from inside his own mind, as he searches for meaning in a life gone horribly wrong. He will try to fulfill a new-found destiny before his path leads to its inevitable conclusion—and one last meeting with his best friend.

A Maze Runner Novella

Susan

Oh Newt 😭😭

Is that Theresa's voice at the end???

Really good book. It made me cry. Can only recommend

Gwenifer

Marchelle

jaya

3.5/5 — this made me insane and sick and evil. it turned me into the joker. it ruined my life. it changed the trajectory of my life and i will never be the same. i wish i hadn’t read it. i am going to cry and shake and throw up and die and kill myself. 5 stars.

Mariyah

4.5/5 ⭐️ I wish I read this sooner. It gives me so much more comfort after the death cure. It gave Newt a better ending. <3

Haley Cross

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           This book was...underwhelming. I have been a Maze Runner fan almost since they were first released, and like most people, I am a HUGE fan of Newt, so I was absolutely ecstatic when I heard this book was being written. Then I read it. I wouldn't say it was a complete flop, but it just wasn't quite as exciting as I hoped it would be. We get to see Newt's journey during his time at the Crank Palace, and see his tragic slow descent into the madness that is the flare, which is heartbreaking, and in the epilogue, we actually get to see Newt's DEATH from his point of view, which almost made his death worse if that's even possible. But if I was a casual fan or didn't care about the character so much, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed it nearly as much. Needless to say, I did read it in an afternoon, so it's a quick read and won't take too much out of your time to read through it and see for yourself.

Short chapters, easy to read and I loved it!!

Iris

Kylie Robinson

Alie Wood

this novella was really good but it was just so sad :( that's not why I rated it lower though, it's more that I wasn't a huge fan of reading about the crank palace and it made me feel like I knew too much. idk I kind of liked not knowing how newt was doing when they didn't know where he was. I did like how we still got the crossover scene with thomas though

** spoiler alert **
           I really liked it, but I got emotional at the end. Of course I knew that we'll see page 250 from Newt's perspective, I just wasnt ready for it. James doesnt have the best writting style, but some of his characters are obviously very great. It was very sad for Dante and Kirsha when they had to say goodbye, they were great characters. Beyond everything this is one of the saddest books I've read. I don't cry very often because if a book, but this right here, made me ugly cry. He was going mad for 150 something pages, and it was horrid to read it, the book is great tho, I really just cry to easily from this book. As I like to say Newt is one of the first fictional book character that I've ever had a crush on, even before the movies. Newt's death has always stuck with me, [pretty sure I wont get over it soon], and after the movies everything just got worse. I'd really love to watch a movie adaptation, but even if it doesnt happen, the book will always be one of my favorites. We didn't see a lot of the other characters like Thomas, Minho, Fry and the others, but it was obvious since it was the death cure from Newt's perspective. I didn't thought we'd see some new characters (Kirsha, Dante etc.), but I love them. It's sad that we didnt see much, but from the moment he met them, I just knew that they will be his new family. Kirsha was like a mom to them, or maybe a bigger sister. I really can't give this book less than 5 stars, I can read anything that has to do with the ivy trio or Jorge and Brenda, Gally, Chuck and Alby. Just those character being together, even if it's not action. I'd read it even if they were sitting on a table, eating for 300 pages straight. (keep that in mind.)
Overall pretty great book. + the good looking cover.

Jadyn Post

** spoiler alert **
           Sad sad sad sad sad. When I read The Death Cure, I thought it could not get any sadder, but yet it did. The way Newt was as war with himself and how much he loved his found family in Thomas, Minho, Brenda, etc was so powerful. And the final chapter.... 😭

Nette Latré

This book was great to see things from newts perspective but i thought is was a bit long and too much details sometimes but I still enjoyed it!

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