Wool

Author: Hugh Howey

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Actually a pretty good book. Makes me feel better at my prospects of finding good reading after RedRising. Didn’t have the same depth of characters as Red Rising, or the underlying themes that I loved, but it was a really good story still and I’m excited to read the other 2 books in the trilogy. Update: Book 2 is lame. I got like 45% through and was finally like, why am I still doing this? Basically everyone lives in this Silo and are told they can’t go outside because the air is poisonous. The top floor of the silo is actually ground, the silo goes 150+ stories underground. So the top floor has windows to the outside world. Every once in a while those windows need cleaning so they can still see out, so they send criminals outside to clean them in these hazmat suits that are not very well made, and then they die from the air. The suits are said to be as good as possible and they haven’t figured out how to survive the air yet, so cleaning is a death sentence. The IT department controls all this, and they are essentially the bad guys in this book. We find out however that they are purposefully making the suits poor and killing people. Also find out there are more than 1 silo, so everyone has been lied to. They think they are the only survivors. The main character gets sent to cleaning, but secretly has a well prepared suit, so she survives. The next books are the story of how the world got that way and the conspiracy behind it. I read half of book two but got bored. Interesting story though.