Second Shift

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225 pages

English language

Published June 20, 2012 by Penguin Random House.

ISBN:
978-1-4481-5164-6
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Not feeling this one.

It feels unfinished and rough in a way, the more Howey describes the people responsible for the apocalypse and their intentions and motives, the less reasonable everything seems. IMHO this book does the world building no good. It's an OK read, nice-to-get some insights into the first uprising in Silo 18 but otherwise ... meh.

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I didn't like it. I think it is meant to show how even good people put in situations where they hold too much power go bad, but it just felt like a story of an unlikable character. The lore behind how the silos formed is also quite unsatisfying, as it feels like the achievement of a few paranoid men in power, and though it might be plausible, it's not a satisfying origin story. Not to me at least.

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