It’s this curiosity that sets off a chain of events as the true powers-that-be scramble to protect their sense of order. Grief can do horrible things to a person’s mind with a need to dig, to discover what could possibly have set another off. For some reason there’s an epilogue after the page titled “Q&A with Hugh Howey”. Why are the rebels blowing up staircases behind them?īe sure to read all the way to the absolute end of the book. Like the lack of battle planning, I wanted to scream at Juliette about why she’s feeling this confusion even though I know she can’t possibly know when there’s never been enough water for even a bath. I love how he used her natural ignorance of what would happen when she entered the water, how he caught the feeling of submerging, of feeling trapped. Reading of Juliette’s underwater ordeal was amazing. How will anyone know a cleaning failed? Is it simply not scrubbing? Okay, I’m missing just what war this will be if a cleaning fails.

The rebellion felt rather fake, although I suppose when you don’t have access to books on history, war, tactics, or even fictional ones of action and suspense that it would make sense they’d screw things up.

There is a disconcerting back-and-forth - some of them are flashbacks while others, well, technically I think they are flashbacks, but they don’t feel that way. I don’t know if it was Howey’s intention to ensure I didn’t miss his point, or to ensure my anger. The majority of Wool is subtle and made me think, and then there are the chunks here and there that feel too simplistic, too obvious. Howey gives this small twists with great betrayals, a deep sense of loss with some characters and yet other characters’ deaths avoid that impact. And an impressive story that still finds me crying. And yet, it’s a familiar plot of hope, acceptance, and gross betrayal. A truth that will shock, appall, and cause you to weep. Howey slowly pulled me into the truth of Wool. Just start to read that first page and you will fall into this story. My Takeīrilliant! Absolutely brilliant! The things Howey can do to a stair tread! Taking every day things and describing them in a completely new way, making us feel and see everything. In 2013, it won the Bookworm Best Award for People’s Pick, and in 2012 it was nominated as the Goodreads Choice for Best Science Fiction. The Wool Omnibus was nominated in 2014 for the Tähtivaeltaja Award. I do recommend getting the omnibus if only because you won’t want to stop. Wool Omnibus in eBook edition on Januand has 509 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. I received this book for free from in exchange for an honest review.

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