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reviewed The last town by Blake Crouch (Book three of The Wayward Pines series)

Blake Crouch: The last town (2014)

Secret Service agent Ethan Burke arrived in Wayward Pines, Idaho, three weeks ago. In this …

Review of 'The last town' on 'Goodreads'

Briefly, like I wrote in the past, the whole series makes for excellent plane/train reading. I won't be writing any thesis papers based on them.

That said, all the way to the last 20 or so pages, I would have given it 4 stars for what it is: pulp entertainment. But to give a fair rating, you have to look at everything. The end of the book was a 2 or 2.5. The kid in me likes the open ending and wants to see an expansion somewhere in the future. The glass half-empty reasonable adult in me wants less puppies and more closure. It felt like a little bit of a cop-out. That sums it up.

It served it's purpose and if the author does write an expansion, chances are pretty good I'm reading it.