He wants to do one good thing in his life before he dies.Īs he roams the streets filled with Cranks, he notes his fear of them has disappeared, but he seems to have regained some of the memories taken during The Swipe. His one goal, while it is still possible, is to write his story down in a journal he found. He is angry, and jumpy, he wants to get away before they realize anything is wrong. As his friends return to their mission in Colorado, Newt slips away. My Synopsis: (No major reveals, but if concerned, skip to My Opinions) Another group of people who are against the WICKED program, are in Colorado. The series has centered around a group of these kids. The Glade, the Maze, and the Scorch were part of the tests. Others, mostly children, were immune (“munies”), and rounded up and sent to a research facility called WICKED where they were given tests to find a cure. Others were left with The Flare, a virus that attacks the brain, slowly driving the person insane, and leaving a person with rage, and eventually death. Solar flares hit the earth and wiped out most of the population. Series Background: ( Warning – May contain spoilers from previous books ) So there!Ĭrank Palace by James Dashner is a novella in the Maze Runner Series.įirst, let me thank NetGalley, the publisher Riverdale Avenue Books, and of course the author, for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Being anything BUT a member of the YA Crowd does not stop me from reading and reviewing this series. Reason I chose to Read this Book: Another installment (although really a novella), in the best-selling Maze Runner series. 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.Previous Book in the Series: #5 – The Fever Code 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. 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.

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. Leaving only a note, Newt departs the Berg before the Gladers return from their mission into Denver, Colorado.

And Newt can't bear the thought of his friends watching him descend into madness as he succumbs to the virus. But now he has a burden that can't be shared with Thomas and the others-the Flare. Newt has been to hell and back with his friends.

The crank palace book