2.16k reviews for:

The Last Town

Blake Crouch

3.95 AVERAGE

dark sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Constant violence and action, only broken up by an annoying love triangle. It was a good ending to the series but not as good a read as the previous two
dark tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I read another review of this series that said the three books are almost in three separate genres - sci-fi thriller, then mystery, then survival/horror, and I think that's true. This one was pretty close in thrill/terror level to Stranger Things season two (?) when they're trying to escape from the hospital, which is to say that it was pretty close to perfect. Very Stranger Things meets Lost meets Twin Peaks.

I was really pleasantly surprised by Wayward Pines - it has great storytelling without ever being pretentious and you genuinely care about the characters despite pretty much all of them being really flawed human beings. This is a sleeper favorite for this year for sure.
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I didn’t want to put this down! And the ending kept me up thinking 

3.5 ✨
tense medium-paced
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
fast-paced