Saturday, August 2, 2014

The Last Town, by Blake Crouch

This is third book in the trilogy and I was impressed that the first two, Pines and Wayward, had self-contained plots with good structures even though they were part of a larger narrative. Unfortunately, I can't say the same for the third book. It had no real conflict developed just for this novel. It was really just the concluding part of the whole trilogy where the first book was the set-up and the second book was the response and attack. This made The Last Town much less enjoyable than the first two. It was fast-paced and an easy read, but I never really got into it. I also thought the ending was a cop-out. Perhaps Crouch is setting up a fourth book, but then it wouldn't really be a trilogy, would it?

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