225 pages
English language
Published June 20, 2012 by Penguin Random House.
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.
So much skippable content
Honestly? This book was a one-time read. You can skip most of Mission & Jimmy’s stories and not miss anything.
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.
Disappointed. Not as good as Wool, it seemed just to be cleaning up all the loose ends and filling in background without much of a plot.
And ALL the characters were men, with women just mentioned as foils for the men, with no plot roles of their own.
Everything is more complicated than we thought in Wool!
It's a little more disjointed feeling than the previous, but still a cracking story.
Just wow. Such great story telling. When I read wool it was a great story on it's own, but as the universe it's set in expands, it's... Oh man.
