The Last Town by Blake Crouch
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Last Town is the concluding book in Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines series.
I read the first two books last Fall, but for some reason, as often happens, I then failed to pick this one up. Sometimes when things are so good, you just don’t want them to end.
Luckily for me, this is a very memorable story, so I had no problem picking this one up even though almost a year had passed. I hadn’t forgotten a thing.
The truth of Wayward Pines, even the idea of it, is so horrifying that it is seared into my brain from now until forevermore.
After the reveals of the second book, which had huge repercussions for the entire town, things get much worse. Much, much worse.
Ethan Burke has ticked off Pilcher and that results in Pilcher cranking up for a temper tantrum of epic proportions. He’s about to unleash a community-wide shitstorm, pretty much the equivalent of a 10-year old flipping over a game of Monopoly because they’re losing.
This installment was non-stop action from the very start. It’s dropping you off directly where the action left off. There’s no time to pause.
It’s bleak. Not going to lie. For the majority of the book, I felt pretty helpless with regards to my favorite characters. How the heck are they going to get out of this?
It seemed the end was near. I mean I could feel it, watching the percentage run down on my kindle. It was coming. What was it going to be?
Overall, I am satisfied with this ending. I wouldn’t have guessed the ending and I can’t argue with it. This was a tough one. The world was what it was. There were no easy answers.
I think Crouch did an exceptional job over the course of these three books building out this world and providing characters that the Reader could care about. I loved many of these characters and it was sometimes tough to read about the things they went through.
I would definitely recommend this series. Even though it is a bit of an older series, it’s absolutely worth picking up!!
