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You know the story, or at least you think you do. Our hero arrives in a small, out-of-the-way town in an unfamiliar part of the country . . . and everything seems off, just a little bit. There’s something strange going on, but it’s deep below the surface. Then the violence starts, and there’s no rational explanation. The suspense quickly becomes unbearable.

Been there, done that? Unlikely.

Been there, done that? Well, that’s what you’re likely to think much of the way through Pines, the first volume in Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy. I certainly did. In fact, given my aversion to horror stories, I became so frustrated that I practically tossed the book aside and looked for something more satisfying to read. Fortunately, I chose instead to read through to the end. Pines is not a horror story, at least not in the conventional sense. It’s . . . something else. If you enjoy speculative fiction, you’re likely to love this book. You’ve probably never read anything like it at all.

Thought-provoking speculative fiction

Although Pines comes across as a conventional mystery or horror story, it’s worth the wait. The thesis of the book (and of the trilogy) is truly original. You may find it difficult to stop thinking about the story for a long time after you’ve read it. It’s easy to see how the trilogy was so quickly shaped into Wayward Pines, a high-profile television series, now in its second season. The pilot was directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Matt Dillon and Carla Gugino star. All three names will be familiar to contemporary movie-goers and television fans.

An unlikely story becomes even less likely

The story seems straightforward. Two U.S. Secret Service agents have disappeared in a tiny rural Idaho town on an investigation involving financial crime. (The Secret Service is an arm of the U.S. Treasury. Its brief extends beyond protection of the President.) A second team of agents is sent in pursuit of the first two — then they also disappear.

In a highway collision, one of the two new agents dies. The other staggers about town in a daze with no memory of what happened. His wallet, his gun, and his briefcase are nowhere to be found. Then the mysteries really begin.

Want to know more of the story? Read the book. It will give your mind a workout.


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Pines Wayward Pines Blake Crouch Books Reviews

Brief review, no spoilers.

I am going to be careful with this summary because the action in the book and the story line in the TV series start to diverge by episode 2. So carefully I am going to say that the story basically concerns a secret service agent named Ethan Burke who wakes up in a hospital after a bad car accident. He had been the passenger in a car driven by another federal agent and they were on their way to a town called Wayward Pines, Idaho. They were sent there to go looking for two missing secret service agents, one of whom was a woman with whom Ethan had previously had an affair.

Soon after waking up in the hospital, Ethan is greeted by a strange nurse, remininscent of Nurse Ratched. Ethan does not have his wallet and he is getting no helpful information about what happened from the nurse. So he leaves without permission to wander around the strange town. The phones don't seem to work right, the people in the town seem odd and distant, and he doesn't have his wallet or any money and feels like he is in a daze.

Ethan quickly meets up with a local bartender named Beverly who buys his story about being in an accident and having no identifcation. She give him food and drink and leaves him a cyptic message on the bill. Soon enough, Ethan also meets up with a mysterious sheiff named Pope and he seeks help from him to no avail. Ethan also tries to make a phone call to reach his wife and son - who are worried about him back in their hometown in Seattle.

What is going on? Why is everyone acting so strangely and why is Ethan unable to leave the town, even when he is able to get a car to drive away and discovers that he keeps looping back into town?

Like I said, the TV series closely follows the book until the second episode. Both with the book and with the movie, there is this eerie disturbing Twilight Zone-like feeling and you share Ethan's unease and discomfort. The more he finds out, the more confusing it gets.

I continued reading the book because I wanted to know the resolution, and I am glad I did. I didn't think that the author could pull it together to come with a viable solution to the dilemma and I am pleased to say he did, somewhat. At least enough to have it all pull together and explain what went on before.

The author claims to have gotten the idea for the book from watching the TV series Twin Peaks as a young boy, and you can definitely see the influence. Do not be worried that you will be frustated by the ending a la the show Lost - this one does have answers.

Recommended for those who want a quick, fun read and are fans of Twilight Zone type stories.
I love mystery and Sci fi and thought this book would be a good fit. I was not expecting to dislike such an overwhelmingly popular read.
I caught on pretty quick that the pines was unsafe and Ethan needed to get out of there, so it was frustrating for me to read chapter after chapter of him staying before he finally caught on and tried to escape.
I also tired of reading about him taking beating after beating before actually fighting back.
This guy's supposed to be a secret service agent and he's a total pushover.
I won't be reading the rest of this trilogy.
You know the story, or at least you think you do. Our hero arrives in a small, out-of-the-way town in an unfamiliar part of the country . . . and everything seems off, just a little bit. There’s something strange going on, but it’s deep below the surface. Then the violence starts, and there’s no rational explanation. The suspense quickly becomes unbearable.

Been there, done that? Unlikely.

Been there, done that? Well, that’s what you’re likely to think much of the way through Pines, the first volume in Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy. I certainly did. In fact, given my aversion to horror stories, I became so frustrated that I practically tossed the book aside and looked for something more satisfying to read. Fortunately, I chose instead to read through to the end. Pines is not a horror story, at least not in the conventional sense. It’s . . . something else. If you enjoy speculative fiction, you’re likely to love this book. You’ve probably never read anything like it at all.

Thought-provoking speculative fiction

Although Pines comes across as a conventional mystery or horror story, it’s worth the wait. The thesis of the book (and of the trilogy) is truly original. You may find it difficult to stop thinking about the story for a long time after you’ve read it. It’s easy to see how the trilogy was so quickly shaped into Wayward Pines, a high-profile television series, now in its second season. The pilot was directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Matt Dillon and Carla Gugino star. All three names will be familiar to contemporary movie-goers and television fans.

An unlikely story becomes even less likely

The story seems straightforward. Two U.S. Secret Service agents have disappeared in a tiny rural Idaho town on an investigation involving financial crime. (The Secret Service is an arm of the U.S. Treasury. Its brief extends beyond protection of the President.) A second team of agents is sent in pursuit of the first two — then they also disappear.

In a highway collision, one of the two new agents dies. The other staggers about town in a daze with no memory of what happened. His wallet, his gun, and his briefcase are nowhere to be found. Then the mysteries really begin.

Want to know more of the story? Read the book. It will give your mind a workout.