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Post by Unbound on Aug 8, 2013 21:05:54 GMT -5
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Post by RacetrackRejects on Aug 9, 2013 14:03:02 GMT -5
I know!! I'm so excited. Pre-order baby!
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Post by niaru on Aug 17, 2013 6:02:55 GMT -5
THANKS! I just downloaded it to my Kindle. I have to finish another book first but I can't wait to start it.
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Post by Unbound on Aug 21, 2013 12:44:49 GMT -5
I'll be interested to see everyone's thoughts on this one. :-)
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Post by niaru on Aug 22, 2013 17:26:24 GMT -5
I'm just sad it's over!
Maybe he'll think of a new series and keep going?
I really enjoyed it, but I don't like it when main / loveable characters get killed off!
What did you think?
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Post by Unbound on Aug 22, 2013 19:45:20 GMT -5
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I wasn't quite as into this one as I was in the past ones. I enjoyed it, but I didn't LOVE LOVE LOVE it like I did the past books. I think it seemed a bit rushed & perhaps could've been broken up like the SHIFT books were a bit to finish things a bit more completely.
I was telling my husband that I would have liked to have seen a cut scene from another silo when silo 1 was destroyed - they would've felt that, especially in the various IT shops.
I feel like, as well, he didn't really capture the pain & horror of silo 18 dying. I was sad when Lucas died, over the intercoms, but other than that, he kind of rushed past it a bit. I would've loved to have them cut to him.
Also, the whole thing with the cultish religious group seemed...odd...and thrown in.
What kept the nanos in one spot? Why did they only stay over the silos? I may have missed that in the narrative.
I feel like the issue of Jules' scars healing also was glossed over a bit. Kind of a "huh - that's interesting" type conversation.
There's more - I had a lot of unanswered questions in the end. Overall, I enjoyed it, but I really wish he would've fleshed it out a bit more. It's got to be really difficult to bring a saga like this to an end & wrap up EVERYTHING, so I have sympathy for him in that regard.
As an aside, if he wanted to continue the series/create a new one - I think a great ending scene would've been someone in one of the other silos, standing in the gallery, looking through the window and wondering if something else was out there.
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Post by niaru on Aug 24, 2013 7:07:40 GMT -5
S P O I L E R S T O O ! Well, I agree with pretty much everything you wrote. Since I read the other books a while ago I thought maybe I missed something...but why didn't silo 1 know about the clean air just outside the "dome"? Or did they know? And how did the harmful nanos only stay around the silos? And what of the rest of the world? The cult - I understand it as a way of showing how some people might react in times of crisis, but I agree it was rushed and not developed enough. The scars healing, the presence of twins, etc in silo 17 = not clear at all. Did Anna manage to change something to the air in that silo? At some point in the book Donald explains she was trying to reverse the gas lines, and send healing nanos instead, but that was muddled as well. Like you, I wondered if anyone in the other silos saw Jules and her people walk by them...and what their reaction might have been, etc. Did you read any of the Wool fanfiction? I read The Runner, and it really wasn't bad! I see there are quite a few out there...such as something on Silo 41. I'm tempted...  |
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Post by RacetrackRejects on Aug 26, 2013 10:12:47 GMT -5
I loved it. It felt rushed at the end to me, but I still loved it.
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I teared up when Lucas died. It was so heart-wrenching and I kept hoping that maybe Anna had let the good nanos go in Silo 18, like she did in Silo 17, and that Lukas would be alive in the end, but no. (Yes, Niaru, Anna released good nanos when Silo 17 was "gassed". The people that died, died because of trying to get out of the airlock and then fighting amongst themselves afterwards. At least that's how I read it..lol.)
Silo 1 did know about the clean air, well the higher ups did.
I think the author intentionally left some things open because he couldn't possibly make everyone reading happy, so I think he left it so that people could come to their own conclusions about things. Also, if you read what Hugh said at the end of the book, it might not be over. There may be more things to come is what I took away from it.
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