Wool

, #1

Paperback, 509 pages

English language

Published March 12, 2013 by Simon & Schuster.

ISBN:
978-1-4767-3395-1
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They live beneath the earth in a prison of their own making. There is a view of the outside world, a spoiled and rotten world, their forefathers left behind. But this view fades over time, ruined by the toxic airs that kill any who brave them.

So they leave it to the criminals, those who break the rules, and who are sent to cleaning. Why do they do it, these people condemned to death? Sheriff Holston has always wondered. Now he is about to find out.

8 editions

reviewed Wool by Hugh Howey (Silo, #1)

Half great, half meh

The first part of the book is great, especially the way we are introduced to "cleaning" and then the silo. The part with Juliette's investigation felt a little rushed. But it still would have been a great book if it had ended with the supposed cliffhanger or shortly thereafter (I don't want to spoil too much here but you'll know what I mean if you've read it.) The second part of the book fell kind of flat for me. Even though I appreciated the story structure of the second half it was difficult to keep engaged because we never had a chance to connect to most of the people in the first silo. The villain also rapidly degraded into a cartoonish evil guy and the love story wasn't very believable.

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