Pines

I would never have picked this book up if not for trailers for the tv show. I found it to be pretty meh. The writing is very simple, not a hard word to be found. Short, choppy direct sentences. The characters are wooden the plot the only thing worth hanging in there for. I honestly pushed myself to finish it just to figure out how Crouch was going to end it. And, okay, pretty decent ending. I kind of wish the “ending” was the beginning of the book and that it went from there.
So, some stuff really annoyed me, including the pattern of Ethan being at his physical limit AND THEN pushing on for six more chapters. I wish I had liked Ethan, but he comes off as unfeeling and uncaring. He wants out of Wayward Pines in order to expose it, not because he misses his family. I wish I had understood Pope more. Beverly too. They felt like characters from B movies who were called in to interact with Ethan. What were their stories? Who knows.