While the book doesn’t explicitly mentions, the TV show spells it out clear enough: the kids are taught the truth about what is beyond the fence and why they must keep quiet about it. Parents are not allowed inside the building and children are not allowed to share anything with their parents that they’ve learned at school, or else. Because yes, both his wife Theresa and his son, are now here in Wayward Pines, which is a another mystery in itself.Įthan’s son is enrolled at the local school. His investigation soon takes him to an underground movement of people fed up with the secrecy and imprisonment within the town, investigation which gets him somewhat closer to his estranged – but at least here with him – wife and son. His first task: investigate a murder in the tiny town with a population of less than 500 souls. The old sheriff, Pope, is gone (and you have to read the first book to find out how and why), so long life the new sheriff. And while usually the truth sets one free, in this case it’s one truth that he wished he’d rather never found out. Once the secret is out, Ethan is now one of the very few who know the truth about the town and what lies beneath the fence that surrounds it. Pines ends with a major reveal, one that sets the tone for Wayward, the second book in the trilogy. Tough stuff that reckoning, and you’ll have to read the book to see just what it entails. And the ‘else’ has been very explicitly shown both in the book and on screen when there was a ‘reckoning’ for someone who broke the rules. What’s worse, people can’t even mention their lives before, can’t rebel, can’t try to leave the town, or else. In Pines we have secret service agent Ethan Burke arriving to the small idyllic town on a mission to search for two of his FBI colleague who were last seen in this very town some weeks before, prior to them going totally off the radar.Įthan soon realizes that not only he can’t leave the town now that he’s there, but noone else can either. The story in book #2 pick up right after the first one ended.

However if you’re watching the mini-series on TV, most of this will already be familiar to you. So Wayward, the second book in the Wayward Pines trilogy by Blake Crouch.īefore I continue, do note that there might be spoilers from the first book, and possibly even spoilers from the second one. Right now the 10 part mini-series is well into the second book, if not already started the third.

Wayward by Blake Crouch is a book I’ve read quite recently, and I’m aware that there are older books I still need to review, however the Wayward Pines series featuring Matt Dillon is still on TV, so I thought it’s best to finish reviewing the trilogy before the series ends.

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