His ability to weave a grand yarn matched that of my other favorite authors, such as Hugh Howey and WIlliam Hertling. In The Wayward Pines Trilogy, Crouch is a master storyteller. While some people panned the ending, I thought it fit perfectly. While The Last Town was a little more graphic than the first two, it was a great and fitting end to the series. Needless to say, I devoured it, and then moved onto the The Last Town. Unlike some trilogies, where the second book can’t match the first, Wayward just builds the story further. Before I knew it, I had reached the end of Pines and was waiting for the month to turn over so I could pick up book 2 via the Kindle Prime Lending Library. Previous pieces that seemed to lack coherence fell perfectly into place. Suddenly, disparate threads of the story had been brilliantly linked together. Then, he does the reveal, and I was both shocked and hooked. It can be a bit hard to follow, and my first inclination was to question where Crouch was going with all of it. The story gets even more mysterious when Crouch starts weaving in references to Burke’s family and his past. He sets out on a mission to discover his identity and his location, and the story gets progressively stranger from there. Not only does he not know where he is, he isn’t even sure of his own name.

The story starts with special agent Ethan Burke waking up in a roadside ditch. It’s not like it would be the first time that has ever happened. On the other hand, I figured that I could always walk away if the first book didn’t blow me away. I like the idea of reading a book from an author, and then jumping to the next one. Since I have a crowded reading list, I hesitate committing to three books. I’m not sure the fascination, but so many authors break their stories up into a three-book series these days. Since I follow the site primarily for tech gadget news, I was a little concerned about the potential quality of their book recommendations, but I figured it was worth at least a shot.įor starters, the book had one strike against it going in.

One of their must reads from a while back was Pines from the Wayward Pines trilogy by Blake Crouch. For my latest read, I decided to try a new recommendation source – Gizmodo, one of the tech blogs that I follow. There’s my ever present nemesis – the infamous Amazon recommendation engine. I have a few friends and blogs that have become trusted sources. Even though I have a reading list that has grown to out of control proportions of 150+ books strong, I’m always on the lookout for book recommendation sources.

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