The Maze

by Luciana Correa

Leah was afraid. No, she was terrified. The worst feeling ever and she didn't even know why.
The reason was a mystery but the fear, was not.
She couldn't remember a great part of her life.
She was successful, had a loving family byt it didn't make her feel safe.
Visions of a tall man with stormy gray eyes chasing her through the dusty streets of a small town crowded her mind in the worst moments.Who was he?
Why couldn't she remember? Why did she feel like running away?
Amnesia was a way to cope with hard times, her psychiatrist had said.
The truth was her mind was lost in the maze.

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Published February 25, 2016

Reviews

[Marie Silk · Rating 4 out of 5]

This thrilling short story is a prequel by the same author for The Twins series. A woman struggles with amnesia while running for her life one minute, then trying to understand how she mysteriously ends up in somewhere else the next. Told in first person, this book provides vivid description of what the main character is thinking and feeling throughout. The story takes some intriguing turns and keeps you guessing til the end. Based on this teaser, I imagine this series will be very interesting. I was a little confused at the end when a different series excerpt was included in the back because I was interested to find out more about the series this prequel came from. A few spelling issues may be due to translation. Overall a wild story that makes you want to know what happens next.

[E. Arthur · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Maze is short prequel to an upcoming series called The Twins. After reading several books recently that were a bit slow, I can say without hesitation that The Maze is not. From the first page, the reader is plunged into a rapid-fire series of disjointed scenes of flight, pursuit, and death. These near hallucinatory visions are, we learn later, flashbacks from Leah, whose mind is twisted by a medicine she is taking to maintain her health, and that of her unborn twins.

But even after the medicine is stopped and the twins are born, Leah cannot put these illusory bits and pieces of memories together until the father of the twins returns, some 5 years later. At that point, Leah has some important decisions to make, that will affect her and her children...and I would guess, what will happen in the Twins Series.

The book is difficult to read in spots, I believe often due to different usage of words in Brazil compared to the US. For example, it took me awhile to get used to ‘hanging off’ a phone, rather than ‘hanging up,’ as I would say. Other expressions, less frequently repeated, gave me pause, but the general plot direction is clear. The series should offer the teen/YA reader some stimulating material.