![]() ![]() Metaphorically, there was wool over their eyes. They walked into a poisoned environment with a visor that convinced them that they were in an Eden, and once outside, they cleaned the windows of the silo in the vain hope that they could convince those inside that they were being fooled by their view of a barren landscape. In Wool we found a silo that contained many thousands of people – Silo 18, a rigidly stratified and controlled world with no escape and with one of the most chilling and vindictive tricks played on those who were sent to their deaths outside. There is simply too much detail and there are too many characters to get a grasp on the extraordinary richness and complexity of the whole. ![]() If you have not read Wool, or Shift, the previous books in the trilogy, don’t start on Dust (and don’t read this review yet). Sometimes it is possible to glean enough from the later books in a sequence to fill in the story, but not in this case. Tags: Dust/ dystopia/ Hugh Howey/ SFF/ Wool trilogyĪ huge and occasionally chaotic canvas does not diminish the achievement of this dystopian trilogy.ĭust is the long-awaited conclusion to the saga that started with Wool. ![]()
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