Wayward

Wayward by Blake Crouch
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is my theory (since I don't really care enough to actually research it): That Blake Crouch wrote the next two books after the first was picked up as a series, because it is dedicated to Chad Hodge, who is the writer of the TV series. And because it's just not as good as the first. Instead of doing what Crouch does best, which is to create a mystery, giving out confusing clues that seem contradictory and then all line up to make sense at the end, this is a book about Ethan, the protagonist, attempting to figure out the morality of Wayward Pines. There is a mystery, but it's easily solved--the real mystery is what Ethan is going do with the information he received in the first book. And that kind of moral conundrum just doesn't fit Crouch's style of fragmented sentences that make up paragraphs. Emotional lines feel cheesy. And then there is a cliff-hanger at the end (which there really wasn't at the end of the first) so another clue that these two books are tacked onto the first. But now of course, I have to read the last one to find out what happens.

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