Wool is the first book in the Silo/Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey. It's also the first book that I have read from this author. It kind of reminds me of
The 100 with the whole post-apocalypse were the air is toxic but these people lives in a underground silo on earth instead of space. So if you like
The 100 then this might be a book for you! I enjoyed this book so much that I bought the last two books in this trilogy at work today! :P
The Blurb:
In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exist in a giant underground silo.
Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full og rules and regulations.
But some people choose not to conform.
These are the people who dare to hope and dream.
These are the dangerous ones.
Jules is one of these people.
She may well be the last.
My Thoughts:
I finally finished it! The beginning was bit slow, but when I started reading it again after finishing
Always With Love, I could barely put it down! When I first started on this book, all I could think about was the beginning(?) of the second season of
The 100 with the new people that shows up out of nowhere. Not the grounders, but the others. (if you have seen it, you'll know :P)
Apart from reminding me of that tv-show, I really liked this a lot and am glad I bought it! The beginning might be slow, but the rest was a thrilling, suspenseful read. The characters got their own personalities and it is easy to get to "know" them. And, of course, there's one character that you just hate :P Never fails with these kind of books! The silo seems like an exhausting place to live with all the stairs you have to go to just to get to a level. If you live on level 1 and have to get down to level 100, you have to walk all those stairs to get there which will take you 2-3. And then you'll have to go back up again... so yeah.. sounds exhausting! Of course they stay over night to rest on different levels when going up or down, but still...
Without saying too much about the story, I can also say that a tiny part of it kind of reminds me about
Divergent. Not sure how to explain that but, it's about the jobs and the kids shadowing older people and have to decide if this is the place they want to stay and work. Like, if you're smart, you end up working on the IT level, if you're good with machines and fixing things, like the main character, you become a mechanic and so on. If that made any sense...
Other than reminding me of tv-shows/books, I was really into this book. I had a huge grin on my face and got excited when things happened, and also got angry, sad and all the different emotions you get reading books like these.
And as always, I'm not sure what more to say other than it was a thrill read and I can't wait to read the next book in this trilogy!
Bye! x
5/5
Next book to read: Shift (Nr. 2, Wool/Silo trilogy) by Hugh Howey
