PINES (Blake Crouch) - May 18/24

 I can’t say I was super into this at the beginning, as the book felt a little repetitive and it did get frustrating not knowing what’s going on. But finally Ethan escapes from the town’s clutches and makes a series of thoroughly shocking discoveries and I was riveted. (And it was subsequently easy for me to overlook things that don’t make sense, like why the townspeople behave like lunatics.) ***1/2 out of ****