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MY ⭐️ RATING: 4.5/5
Format: Kindle Whispersync
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival. The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo.
But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside.
After the previous sheriff leaves the silo in a terrifying ritual, Juliette, a mechanic from the down deep, is suddenly and inexplicably promoted to the head of law enforcement. With newfound power and with little regard for the customs she is supposed to abide, Juliette uncovers hints of a sinister conspiracy. Tugging this thread may uncover the truth . . . or it could kill every last human alive.
MY REVIEW
This has been on my list for a while now, and because of that, I’ve kept away from the tv show. I wanted to know what this story was by the book before I saw what Hollywood turned it into. The days of being excited about Hollywood getting their grubby hands on a popular book series is gone. Wool was fantastic! As a lover of the games and show Fallout, I felt a lot of contrasts between them. I never read The 100, but the show was great and I got some of that within this story as well. I also got a little bit of The Island starring Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johannson. I also got a little bit of Brave New World while I was reading this. With that said, Wool differs from each of these in many ways.
Juliette was such an easily likeable character, Howey did a great job with her. Shes one of those types you really do root for, you want her to succeed and come out on top. Shes the perfect type of protagonist for a story like this. Ont he flip side, Bernard was the perfect antagonist, he really made you want to hate him, I just kept saying, man I hope he gets what’s coming to him! Along with them was a cast of great supporting characters that helped build this world out and made you feel the depth and magnitude. I appreciate that while there was some romance, it was kept at a bare minimum, the best way.
“We are born, we are shadows, we cast shadows of our own, and then we are gone. All anyone can hope for is to be remembered two shadows deep.”
As for the dystopian genre, I love it in film and am still quite new to it in books, but I am enjoying it, but I do try to stick more into the fantastical or historical realms. Howey’s story-telling is fantastic though and that’s what makes this work so well. The idea of the illusion everyone in the silo is sold, plus the societal classes never being fixed, while living in a claustrophobic tube gives everything more meaningful. But this wouldn’t be anywhere close to as good as it is without the excellent narration of Edoardo Ballorini. Take a bow, sir.
With that said, the one hangup I had, and maybe I’m being a bit nit-picky with this, but there is a battle scene, great scene, but there’s an issue that happens often with people that do not actually understand firearms. I’m not entirely sure what the actual firearms are in this story since they are left to be generic terms, but Howey mentioned clip a few times. Because of the style of weapons that the I.T. people have, they would not be using firearms with clips, they’d be using mags. Now, the others would be using clips, just not I.T. I know, this is such a weird hangup, but it’s legitimately something that bothers me.
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