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The Last Town The Wayward Pines Trilogy Book 3 edition by Blake Crouch Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

The Last Town (2014) is the third and last novel in Blake Crouch’s series of novels about Wayward Pines—a fenced-in town in Idaho with what appears to be the last surviving human beings in existence—two thousand years in the future [It is important that the books be read in order.] The novel begins exactly where the second novel, Wayward (2013) ends with Sheriff Ethan Burke having told the citizens of Wayward the truth about their lives and the town and with David Pilcher, the creator of the town safe in his mountain retreat who sees himself as a demigod, taking drastic and catastrophic revenge upon Burke and the people Pilcher considers his creations. He cuts off all the power in the town and to the fence that keeps them out—the “aberrations”—the abbies. Indeed, the fence has been locked open and the town is being attacked by the sub-humanoid killers which have taken over the planet, feasting on friends, neighbors, and relatives of the inhabitants of Wayward.

Crouch remains true to his vision for Wayward Pines, his multitude of characters created in the two earlier novels, and his style of rapid-fire story telling.

Despite the terror that besieges the town which Crouch graphically describes, the author doesn’t neglect the very human relationships which are an important part of the series all of which have previously been established, keeping the reader fully engaged in the novel. Indeed, at least one on-going relationship becomes more complicated and engrossing than ever before. There are a few useful, telling flashbacks regarding Pilcher’s motivations and actions in 2013 as well as flashbacks to some of the other characters’ lives which helps fill in gaps in their histories. Readers also finally get a full realization of the mysterious “nomad” who has been sent beyond the town’s fence, only one of eight, who has survived 1,308 days outside of Wayward’s protection—a man who readers have only received glimpses of in the past—a man who is struggling and who is determined to return to Wayward because he believes he has “the key” and is “literally the one man in the world who can save the world.”

Like many dystopian novels, The Last Town is filled with numerous scenes of desperation and terror as people attempt to overcome the odds, putting themselves at risk of horrifying deaths to try to survive. Many don’t. Crouch’s depictions of events take a very cinematic approach to these scenes of anguish, painting vivid word pictures of the characters’ surroundings and of the chaos and dread that ensues. As an ironic but logical development, in addition to the “abbies” the residents of Wayward Pines find themselves facing a second potentially life-ending inevitability as the novel begins to near its finale.

At the novel’s conclusion, Crouch ends The Last Town wonderfully and on exactly the right note which readers are bound to respect and appreciate after reading three volumes of Crouch’s vivid and unforgettable mash-up of surreal and ghastly horror, science fiction, and realistic life and death struggles.
IN SHORT
> Great basic premise–essentially use cryogenic suspension (in effect, as a time machine) to transport 500 or so humans 1800 years to a post-human future, with sufficient supplies to get a good start (except that they don’t even try to “start”). Good (not terrific) writing. However, the basic premise is not logically thought-out by the author, and therefore is not logically developed in the novel.
> I enjoyed the story, but the trilogy will NOT be high on my "re-read in a few years" list, and I’m NOT looking for other Blake Crouch novels to read.

COMPARISION TO THE TV SERIES
> The corresponding TV series follows the first book fairly well, but does not follow the last two books closely. The TV series fills in some of the holes and inconsistences in the novels (and therefore some of the inconsistences cited below do not apply to the TV series), but the TV series exacerbates a few inconsistences. The TV series is a bit too "Lost" (too much effort was put into creating incomprehensible mysteries as a viewer hook), and therefore it feels incoherent---you don't get any backstory until the second season. The characters in the novel are thin, and (at least in my opinion) uninteresting, and forgettable. None (other than Pilcher) ever made it to my long-term memory. By the very nature of film and TV, the characters are better developed in the TV series. The humanization of the Abbies in the TV series may be required by political correctness, but the novels' Abbies are more believable.

ILLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND INCONSISTENCES
> Why place the town of Wayward Pines in the high mountains of Idaho? Sustainable food production would always have been a serious problem—even without the “Global Cooling”. Actually, projecting the geological history of climatic cycles forward, significant global cooling is expected within the next several thousand years---why didn't Pilcher know that? Is/are Couch/Pilcher so poorly educated that they are unaware of climatic cycles?
> Why was there no effort to monitor and archive history and scientific developments (primarily by automated archiving of the internet)? Surely that would have provided much useful information. It might have provided a clue to surviving pockets of humanity somewhere on the planet. Crouch could have come up with reason such an effort failed—but it would have been logical for Pilcher to have tried.
> If (as claimed in book 3) Wayward Pines was intended only to be an “ark”, and that the population would migrate outward at an early point (i.e., well before their 4-year supply of freeze-dried food ran out), then why such extravagant waste of finite resources building a temporary “Disneyland” community?.
> If Wayward Pines was intended to be the base from which humanity expanded back into the world, why place it in the high mountains of Idaho which would be virtually inaccessible without modern highways? And don't forget that those mountains are actually volcanos (e.g., Mt St. Helen), and there is a good chance that one of them will blow in the next thousand years.
> Why delay reality? At some early point “new humanity” would have to have gotten down to the reality of farming, mining, cutting timber, making lumber, building homes, processing food, processing mineral resources, and manufacturing basic essential products.
> Are Millennials (Crouch and his audience) so disconnected from reality that they have no concept that food and products have to be created by actual human effort? Does Crouch think that food is just materialized from nothing in McDonalds in Startrek "food replicators"? But then, if Pilcher had monitored the internet for another 500 or 1000 years, maybe they would have recorded the technology to create Startrek food dispensers.
> Why have fake mailmen, fake real estate agents etc? How ridiculous is it to have invested resources in a hotel with no guests or in having cars parked on the streets as “window dressing”, which no-one actually drives?
> And exactly who constructed the electric fence, built the town, and paved the roads? The support staff in the mountain?–which must have been several hundred individuals? So, why couldn’t they form the core of the residents of the town and benefit from their hard work? It is so typical of our current populist-politician-driven, media-driven, and education-establishment-driven culture to dismiss the "worker bees" (businessmen, technicians, tradesmen, and laborers) who actually sustain human life on this planet, as (in effect) subhumans to be taxed and worked to death for the sake of the "educated" elites.
> Speaking of the fence, if Pilcher did not anticipate the Abbies (as stated in book 3), then why did he stockpile all the materials for the massive electrified fence? (Actually, the novels do not describe such a massive fence as depicted in the TV series.) If there was periodic monitoring (i.e., staff members were awakened) then why didn’t they notice the existence of Abbies, and just delay the mass awakening another 1000 years? I suppose this could be explained away, but if so, we need explanations.
> The idea that the townspeople “couldn’t handle the truth” is lame. The support staff in the mountain managed to "handle the truth", apparently for a decade or so, since there had been earlier “failed generations” (rather like the “Matrix”).
> “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop”–right? It was precisely the fakeness and idleness that drove the towns-folks crazy (and probably explains the ongoing deterioration of our present "popular culture"). If you have to work yourself to near exhaustion everyday for survival (as most real folks in the real world do, and everyone pioneering a “new” world would have to), and you felt that you were building a future for yourself and your children – few people will suffer from suicidal existential angst.
> Okay, in reference to the earlier failed generations which had been told the truth about Wayward Pines -- maybe folks sitting on their hands, with nothing to do, could be freaked by the idea that their lives had been stolen from them, etc. But why tell them the full truth? Why couldn’t Pilcher claim that he had had special prior knowledge of a nuclear war, or a plague, or a meteor impact etc. that wiped out humanity and that he, Pilcher, has selectively “saved” the best of humanity? Who wouldn’t get behind “we are the chosen people, beloved of Pilcher”? -- that seems to have worked for thousands of years -- from Moses to the LDS, and seems to be a winning formula. Or alternatively, they could have been told that they had all been killed in their sleep by some disaster (such as a virus), but their bodies had been preserved somehow (natural or artificial), and Pilcher had revived them when the disaster had passed. Surely Pilcher (or even Crouch) is bright enough to have figured out these or other plausible scenarios.
> It is unbelievable that Pilcher would have chosen 500 folks almost entirely lacking basic survival skills. Teachers, doctors, nurses, carpenters, farmers, engineers, car mechanics, and maybe a police officer would be fine choices—but why FBI agents, toy makers, and ice cream shop clerks?
> Why are there so many Aberrants? They are apex predators, which by definition have very low population densities, especially in harsh cold environments--typically a few individuals per hundred square miles. And just how do they manage in the winter, without fur? without the use of fire? Evolution of a new species is normally measured in 100,000s of years or longer. How did the Abbies evolve so much so quickly?
> Why the ridiculous idea of faking car crashes in “old” Wayward Pines to abduct people? Logically every effort would have been made NOT to draw any attention to Wayward Pines.
> Hadn't the local climate been monitored by the mountain's computers? So, why the sudden panic 5 or 10 years after the initial awakening? When it was finally realized that the growing season was much too short for sustainable food production -- why didn't Pilcher consider hydroponics with artificial light in the mountain, or the big empty hospital? They supposedly have a nuclear power plant, producing plenty of electricity for street lights and other unnecessary uses.
> Did I get it right? – that in the end the survivors escaped to 70,000 years in the future? Great idea! Following the climatic cycles of the past million years or so, by then Wayward Pines valley will be a mile deep below a glacier, and part of the mountain complex may have been scraped away by the glacier.
> Okay, I get "suspension of disbelief". But the Wayward Pines novels just stretch the rubber band too far. However it is not the implausibilities that really bother me, rather it is the lost opportunity. The unnecessary illogic and scientific implausibilities strike me as simply sloppy writing. Starting with the basic premise (even throwing in Abbies), I can imagine a very exciting novel (or novels), which could be reasonably scientifically accurate. For example, much of the appeal of Michael Crichton’s novels (highly recommended) is that the reader can participate by anticipating problems and solutions, since the novels are so logical and scientifically accurate. Very little develops logically in the Wayward Pines trilogy--so the reader is not a participant.

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