They have to get used to being a family again when you’re never alone. Teresa and Ben, the wife and child, have lived in Wayward Pines for 5 years without Ethan.
It’s an uneasy moment, both in the town and in the Burke home. In this one, Ethan has been made the sheriff and reunited with the wife and child he thought died 2000 years ago. It was so good, I had to go out and buy the second novel, Wayward, immediately. Every one of which would gladly eat him for breakfast. They’re surrounded by what Pilcher and his hired goons call abbies, for abnormal. What he found when he gets out of the town, horrifies him. After some fights, some time in their “hospital” and help from another townie who knows at least something of what’s going on, Ethan escapes. I’m not knocking Crouch’s writing, just the character’s feeling like he had to “save” humanity by kidnapping (yes, kidnapping) about 1400 people and putting them in suspended animation.Įthan works out that something is terribly wrong with the town of Wayward Pines, ID, where he wakes up after thinking he was in a car accident. Generally the answer is no) and that within 30 generations, humans as we know them would be extinct. Whether or not that actually impacts your life is another story. Everyone’s got some sort of weird mutation. Pilcher, a scientist has discovered that the human genome was “corrupted” (news flash: duh. No, he and everyone else had simply (“simply”) been put in suspended animation by a nut job named David Pilcher and had woken up almost 2000 years ahead of present time. Main character Ethan Burke, a Secret Service agent out of Seattle, wasn’t dead.
I was edging toward disappointment, thinking this was going to be another “he thinks he’s alive but he’s really dead” sort of story when Crouch dropped a whammy of a twist on me. A weird town with weird people that are clearly hiding something. Beware, if you read further, there will be SPOILERS for the whole trilogy.Īt first, it was kinda Twin Peaks-ish. I’d remembered hearing about the series on TV and how it was inspired by Twin Peaks, which I liked (no, I’m not that old, I watched it on Netflix). I picked up the first book of the Wayward Pines trilogy by Blake Crouch, Pines, because it was $1.99 on Amazon and I was looking for something new to read.
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