The Last Town

This book finishes the tale of the “idyllic” town of Wayward Pines located in a mountainous Idaho valley. As the story progressed from the first book reveal, it reminded me in some ways of H. G. Wells' Time Machine. In this case the few hundred residents of Wayward Pines are a bit like the Eloi and the world outside the valley that of the Moorlocks. But here the people of Wayward Pines are kept in the dark by the psychopathic leader that put them into their situation and rules over them like a demented god. When Ethan Burke, now acting as town sheriff, takes a big gamble and decides to reveal to the town's population the truth about Wayward Pines, it sets in motion a series of events that will lead to the town's destruction and the deaths of most of its inhabitants. That leaves the final question to be answered “Is there any way out for the remaining inhabitants of Wayward Pines?” Even though this story included some sappy love story drama that really didn't add much to the tale, the basic imaginative core of the story and the many action sequences had me racing through pages ‘til the end.