An Un-put-downable Book - Wayward Pines Book 1

It's been a few years since I picked up a book and just had to... HAD TO... read it through from cover to cover. But a few days ago, I read just such a book. I had been seeing advertisements on TV for the new FOX TV series - Wayward Pines. The preview looked intriguing and so I borrowed the book from the library. Turns out it's part of a trilogy. So I borrowed the first book - Pines. After reading the book - cover to cover in one day - I put a hold on the second book - Wayward and am on the waiting list for the third book - The Last Town.

The story follows a Secret Service agent, Ethan Burke, who has been sent to a small town in Idaho to figure out what happened to two Secret Service agents who have gone missing. Wayward Pines, the town, is super cute and quaint but just a tad strange. As it turns out... once you enter Wayward Pines, you can't leave... enough said. I know some people hate spoilers so... I won't spoil it for you. Suffice to say, it was a great book. And now I'm dancing from foot to foot waiting for the second book.

By the way, do yourself a favour and don't read any reviews of the second book because some of them give away the ending of the first book. Very annoying.

Now, having gushed about the book, it isn't high-brow literature by any means. It is a bit of horror, a bit of science fiction, a bit of dystopia, a bit of Twin Peaks. The writing is a bit clumsy in places but... I hardly noticed. And... reading this book makes me want to read other books by the same author. A stamp of approval if there ever was one.  Unfortunately, our public library system doesn't have a lot of his books sooo... I might have to put in an inter-library-loan and keep my fingers crossed!

The TV series starts on May 14 and I want to have all the books read by then. Keeping my fingers crossed that the third book gets to me by then!