Finally finished Sand by Hugh Howey! Took me some time but here we are :) This is the same author who wrote the Wool trilogy (got the reviews on my blog in case you want to read them :) ) and I loved those books which is why I just had to read Sand too.
The Blurb:
The old world is buried.
A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes.
Here in this scorched desert, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost.
Deep within the sand lies the key to bringing their family together.
And the secret that could tear their world apart.
My Thoughts:
I have no idea how to do this review because my head is not with me today (got so much to do before work.. eep!), so be nice to me :P Gonna try my best (as I always do)!
One thing first; there was a lot of sand.. a lot... that's all I can say. Of course there was a lot of sand in this book.. I mean.. it is called Sand and they were in a desert so... anyway. Jokes aside. I liked this book :) Not as much as Wool but I really did like this one. I thought this would be kind of a part of the trilogy, but I was wrong. Yes, the characters lived in a post apocalyptic world but everything was different. It was a whole different world.
Was bit of a slow start but at the same time, things already started to happen from the beginning. Just after few chapters something real bad had already happened. So there was always something. And I also learned loads of different names for sand too. It was nice of Howey to make footnotes under the pages for the different kind of sand the characters felt in their boots, mouth and so on. Like I said, a lot of sand which also means lots of different types of sand. Oh, and also, they dive through the sand like it's water! Which sounds awesome, but at the same time scary cause everything depends on their diving suits. Yes... diving suits! Was lot of technology going on in this book as well like power to the suits so they could go through the sand and visors to see through the sand and lots of things they needed for the diving.
While reading this book, I struggled a bit to understand some of the words he used like ker (kind of a scarf in front of your face to shield from the sand) and other words I can't remember right now. But after reading those words in different settings, I started to understand more and it got easier for me to continue. And the diving part, I actually tried to figure out how it would look like if they make a movie out of this, like, how would they manage to make it look like they're actually diving through the sand? And how would the suits and stuff look like? So there was a lot of thinking while reading this time :P
It did take me some time to finish Sand, but it wasn't because I got bored. Life just happened :P (And, also, another book happened (Norwegian - originally Swedish - book so no review from that).) When I started to read Sand again after finishing the Norwegian one, I got hooked and couldn't put it down because more and more things started to happen and you also get to know more about the siblings past and why they do the things they do.
All in all, I liked the story. It got more and more suspenseful the more I read and there were anger (always a bad guy in his books) and smiles (when good things happened), surprise (when unexpected things popped up) and also sadness (people die in this book as well).
Got no idea what else to write so I hope this review helps you a bit and also that I haven't spoiled a lot of things for you (you get to know all about the diving and stuff from the start so..)
That was all for now! Sorry for the bad review, but like I said; My head doesn't work right now :P
Bye x
4/5
Next book to read: Behind Closed Doors - B. A. Paris
