It was free, it wasn’t going to take up much of my time, so i thought i’d give it a read.
I wouldn’t call it bad in any way, but at the same time it doesn’t come across as good either. It’s just another one of those beige, average sci-fi short stories that you sometimes read to fill in an hour or so — a bit like a sudoku puzzle. Ergo — 3/5 stars.
I’m surprised that this book has got so many good reviews, it really doesn’t deserve them.
The whole world is changed overnight into a dystopian caste system that virtually everyone seems to accept without much question simply because they get a free house and a job. Even though they all know that as soon as they can’t do their job they’re either euthanised or thrown into the walled off lawless slums to be at the mercy of cruel and evil, gangs.
It basically takes a bunch of dystopian themes and throws them together for the sake of a story, but it doesn’t really hold together as a story. There just seems to be this acceptance that everyone in the whole world just accepted this system and goes along with it because they all clamour to be high spenders. Like everyone would just give up social care, social security, pensions, etc., just so they can have a free house, be a slave and strive to be a high spender.
The book spends most of its time telling us how horrible and cruel the new system is with our protagonist and her husband not doing very well, only for the last small part of the book to find a bizarre way to allow them and their few friends to live happily ever after — The End!
Basically, it’s just about passable, and it’s just about readable, but not much else can be said. If you’re looking for a good dystopian story then your time and money will be better spent on something else.
Pines and Wayward were brilliant, and so i dove straight into this finale to the trilogy without pausing for air.
It’s been a while since i’ve been treated to such unputdownable books, and to have 3 of them in a trilogy is wonderful.
As with the other two books, great writing, great characters and great all-around story telling.
And what a great ending. Although, for me, i feel it would have been a tiny bit slightly better without the Epilogue — it wouldn’t be a good review without some negative criticism, now would it?
I am most certainly going to be reading more from Blake in the future.
I’m now a fanboy. 
Pines was a really good read, and Wayward did not disappoint in any way either.
I found both books totally unputdownable, any spare moment i had i found my head glued to my Kindle, reading.
The story keeps on having more layers and twists added to it as more information from the time before suspension is revealed — all to be played out in the small town of Wayward Pines. And the characters just get better the more we learn about them as Blake artfully drip feeds the occasional back story snippet from their previous lives.
Full-on story telling from a full-on story teller.
And now it’s straight into The Last Town for the finale.
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