Leslye❇'s Reviews > Abandon

This story started out well enough with the disappearance of an entire town and the mystery surrounding it. At first I was thinking ghost story. Unfortunately what you get is a rather bland hostage, wilderness, survival story...and it seemed to go on forever! It was also one long weather report. By 100 pages in I was so sick of reading about snow, I nearly put the book aside. It was a struggle to complete and when I reached the predictable ending, I was just skimming through the last few chapters.

I absolutely loved the Wayward Pines series, but this book was tedious and didn't grip me. It had an interesting premise, and a promising start, but quickly slid toward "cheapish" action thriller, which is considerably less than what I have come to expect from Blake Crouch. I'm not giving up on Mr. Crouch, but I'm certainly glad I read Pines first so that I know what this author is capable of.