The Maze Runner, by James Dashner

The Maze Runner belongs to the current batch of dystopian teen trilogies.  The second volume, The Scorch Trials, hits the bookstores tomorrow.  The book is populated almost entirely by male characters, which is a contrast to popular female-fronted dystopias such as The Hunger Games and Incarceron.

I found the story less gripping than others of the genre.  The boys are trapped within a huge shifting maze and remember nothing of their previous lives except their names.  They are evidently being manipulated by someone, but there isn't much information to go by.  The book attempts to convey high emotion (the protagonist spends much of the book in abject terror), but the characters aren't particularly interesting and I didn't buy in to the premise.