As stated before, I really like Blake Crouch’s first book in the Wayward Pines series, simply titled Pines. It is a science-fiction mystery-thriller packed with twists and turns and strange and wonderful plot developments. I felt that Crouch does a fantastic job of dropping little clues here and there to keep a reader guessing while never once leaving us spinning in a long explanation of events or jumping out to tell an unnecessary back story.
With this in mind, I picked up the second book, Wayward Pines. I’m not sure what happened to Crouch between the two books. Perhaps his editor pressured him for a sequel and he had to scramble to do so, but I just couldn’t get through the second book. I put it down half-way, and for reasons I am about to share here on this blog post.
There were several (and I mean nearly every…
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