The Fever Code by James Dashner was published as a novel on September 27th, 2016. It is the fifth book in its series, before that being The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, and The Kill Order. If they were placed in order of how things happened, it would go book four, five, one, two, three.
This takes place after the Flare was brought onto the world. A group called WICKED- World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department- was either brought or took kids to use to test the brain of the kids with and without immunity to the Flare. As they are brought in, they go take different lessons for years to help them prepare for what was going to come next in their lives, but at the same time, the kids snuck out in order to have some fun. But as usual, they have to go through twists and turns during the whole time period and even longer than that without knowing it.
In this book, the main point is that the characters are all about remembering things about their life when workers are forced to take the beloved memories from their innocence. “Stephen, Stephen, Stephen. My name is Stephen,” (7). Stephen keeps repeating his name in his head in order to remember it while WICKED wants it to be forgotten like an old homework assignment. He keeps persisting because he wants to remember the name his parents gave him even though they had to give him up. “Soon the memories that haunted him so much, made him so sad, would be gone,” (337). In the end, he ends up getting betrayed by the Chancellor, but at the same time without Stephen- who is now Thomas- knowing, she’s doing the best thing she can for him and also the right thing to do.
In the end, I would give this book an eight out of ten because I feel like there could be a bit more showing than telling and there are a few time when it’s hard to tell who’s talking because there should be more dialouge tags.
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