Dust
by:
Hugh C. Howey (author)
This is the much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy. "The next Hunger Games". (The Sunday Times). "Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable...one of dystopian fiction's masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World." (Daily Express). In the aftermath of the...
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This is the much-anticipated final instalment of the Wool trilogy. "The next Hunger Games". (The Sunday Times). "Thrilling, thought-provoking and memorable...one of dystopian fiction's masterpieces alongside the likes of 1984 and Brave New World." (Daily Express). In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order. Some embrace the change, others fear the unknown; none have control of their fate. The Silo is still in danger. There are those set on its destruction. Jules knows they must be stopped. The battle has been won. The war is just beginning.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781490904382 (1490904387)
ASIN: 1490904387
Publish date: 2013-08-17
Publisher: Amazon
Pages no: 466
Edition language: English
Series: Silos (#3)
I fell in love with the first book in this series, Wool, when I read it. It's one of my all time favorites. Then I read the second book, Shift, and hated it. It was written in a different style then Wool and it contained a lot of flashbacks to older times which didn't do anything for me at all. I wo...
**My review of Dust in particular:I'm out of words. I cried. I couldn't put it down. And while the ending wasn't ALL I was hoping for, it certainly led in the right direction and left me with a feeling of cathartic euphoria that still pops up to say hello every time I talk about this series. Read it...
Originally read March 24, 2014 This was another great book – I enjoyed it almost as much as the first book in the series, Wool. The story takes place after the events of the previous two books, and it moves events forward in an interesting way. We finally get answers to all of our open questions...
Not as good as the others. The conspiracy lost steam as the series progressed. Will review all 3 at once in the omnibus volume.
I don't know why, but I actually found Dust kind of forgettable. It's the third in the phenomenally successful Wool trilogy, featuring the excellent Wool, the quite-good Shift, and now the OK Dust. After the flashback fun of Shift, Dust returns to the "present" of Wool, the "present" of Silo Eight...