#36 in Dystopian
The Fever Code
- 384
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Fever Code” goes back before “The Maze Runner” to the early lives of the first Gladers, and some readers call it the best of the series. A prequel might seem to have no surprises left, yet its closing pages and epilogue upset what readers thought they knew. Some love the warmth of the first two hundred pages and find the last third weaker. It assumes the earlier books have been read.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
The Fever Code is a 2016 young adult dystopian science fiction novel written by American author James Dashner and published on September 27, 2016, by Delacorte Press. It is the second prequel book in The Maze Runner series and the fifth installment overall. The Fever Code is the second book, chronologically, set in between the events of The Kill Order and The Maze Runner.
Reading order · The Maze Runner
Full order & progress →- The Maze RunnerStart here
7.67.6 / 10 - The Scorch Trials
7.47.4 / 10 - The Death Cure
7.17.1 / 10 - The Kill Order
7.17.1 / 10 - The Fever CodeThis book
7.87.8 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.9 across 176 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 54% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Dystopian average of 7.7. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 8.2 | 11 | 6% |
| Google Books | 10.0 | 5 | 3% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 160 | 91% |
Frequently asked
What age is The Fever Code for?
The Fever Code sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 384 pages — shorter than 65% of the ranked books in Dystopian.
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