I recently got off work a bit early (one of the many down sides of being a Fry Minion, you get sent home because of “labor costs.”) and having nothing to do but surf my phone, downloaded a reader (how did I live without one?) and started perusing my to-be-read pile, which is quite large. Wayward was one of the first books in the stack, (it was ahead of its prequel, even, which I have not read.) I’m used to starting series in the middle […]
Twin Peaksy Thrilling Suspense!
“There was darkness everywhere humans gathered. The way of the world.” This throwaway line in the first book of Blake Crouch’s Wayward Pines trilogy could also serve as the series’ thesis: No matter where people commune, no matter their intentions or desires, enmity lurks. It’s just how we are as a species. Pines explores this concept in a dream-like setting that will be familiar to anyone who has seen more than two minutes of Twin Peaks. In fact, Crouch has been very forward about Twin Peaks‘ influence on his own book […]