Our experience is through the eyes of the townspeople, and they only know as much as they were told. He explains a bit more about the world, without ever showing too much. In Wayward, Crouch slows the pace compared to the first novel. Ethan lives with his wife and twelve-year-old son, both taken to the town and awakened five years before his own thawing. David Pilcher, the scientist who organized the entire venture, lives in an internal mountain superstructure, overseeing his grand experiment.
The entirety of humanity lives in this false town, kidnapped and cryogenically frozen over the course of thirty-years, ending in 2013. It is nearly two thousand years in the future. No longer on the run from his new-found neighbors, he is the sheriff of Wayward Pines. Wayward, picking up very soon after, changes the pace, but never the tone of the series.Ĭrouch’s second novel offers a new normal for Ethan Burke. Through the pages of the first novel, Ethan runs for his life from the residents of Wayward Pines, fights against the shadowy rulers who force the townsfolk to live vacant lives, travels beyond the electric fence which keeps the townspeople trapped, and learns the truth about the state of the world. Quickly, he remembers he is investigating the disappearance of two other Secret Service agents who traveled to the town investigating the financial dealings of David Pilcher. In Pines, Secret Service Special Agent Ethan Burke awakens in the sleepy town of Wayward Pines with no recollection of how he arrived there or why. Wayward is the second novel in the Wayward Pines trilogy, following Blake Crouch’s excellent opening novel, Pines. If the second part has done its job, the eventual cliffhanger will be something you did not expect, something which makes you excited, eagerly awaiting the finale to the story.
A good second part will answer questions you had leftover from the first part, while raising a few more, and leaving some you may have asked since the beginning unanswered until the very end of the trilogy. It shows us the new normal after the first part and, over it’s course, ramps up the tension and stakes until ending on a cliffhanger to set up the third and final part.
After the first part sets the stakes and shows the main characters achieving some measure of victory, the second part slows things down a little.
The second part of a trilogy has a few very specific jobs to accomplish.
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