Last night I finished
The Last Town (The Wayward Pines Trilogy, Book 3) by Blake Crouch and started reading
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. Oddly enough, as very different these books are, they both used the word paradise to describe their respective homes. In the former, a sign post just outside the town's limits is mentioned in all three books of the series:
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WELCOME TO WAYWARD PINES WHERE PARADISE IS HOME
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While in the latter, Malala gives this description of her hometown in the first chapter:
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"We lived in the most beautiful place in all the world. My valley, the Swat Valley, is a heavenly kingdom of mountains, gushing waterfalls and crystal-clear lakes. WELCOME TO PARADISE, it says on a sign as you enter the valley.
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The similarities, I'm sure, end there, as the fictional town of Wayward Pines is hardly a paradise by anyone's standards, and Malala truly loves her home. The three Wayward Pines books are described as a trilogy, but the ending of the third left the door open for yet another sequel, and I would be amazed if a fourth book were not written to this excellent series.