Dust
Ratings334
Average rating4.1
I really enjoy the Silo Saga. Wool and Shift were both very interesting stories. Dust continues right where Shift left off. It does manage to pull the story to a decent conclusion. However, it felt like it took too long to get there. The first third of the book just didn't grab me and moved too slow. The end just sort of hits and didn't feel like we had a good wrap up. And while we got some small resolution for a very small part of the people living in the Silos, there were still too many unanswered questions.
Worth a read, but not quite the highlight the other books were.
Dust returns readers to Silo 18, and the way life in the silo continues after an uprising. With the knowledge Jules now has, she is determined to find out what happened to the world. But the ally they’ve gained isn’t completely in control. One small move and Silo 18 will cease to exist like Silos in the past. Set on her path to connect Silo with Solo’s, Jules will be blinded to the consequences until it is too late.
The desperate struggle for Jules to find answers to her questions, and provide a better life for those in the silos is touching. And true to her personality she charges forward without thinking of the way things might go wrong, or if people even want what she is dragging them into. Jules finds herself balancing between the destruction the people are capable of when pushed too far and the uncontrollable forces at play outside the silo. Navigating between the two has to be done delicately, and Jules is anything but delicate.
When all of Jules’ cultivated plans go awry, she’s left with making split second decisions not everyone will come back from. Yet even when she is beaten down and feels alone, she stands right back up and tries again. And this time there is also a secondary storyline taken from book two, working in parallel. Even if they aren’t fully aware of the other’s intentions, ultimately they’re striving for common goals. It brings the cast of characters into alignment for this final novel.
Despite some great action sequences, there are many low points for Dust. Things such as exploring the engineering side of the silo machines are gone into great detail. Simply knowing the machine's purpose and intent for the plot would have been enough. There are also many loose ends still left after this final novel.
Readers who enjoy Dystopian novels may enjoy Dust. Just bear in mind there will be questions left lingering at the conclusion of the series, and the pacing is not consistent from novel to novel.
God. This series was perfect and this ending was so dang good. Full of hope and sadness.
I don't want this to end! There's more that can be done. I want another book, Hugh!
I loved this book. A brilliant finale to a superb trilogy. It lacks a fifth star, however, because it felt a bit rushed compared to the first two books. Indeed placing it back on the shelf it stands out as the thinnest of the three books. So, brilliant as it is, I expected more!
Also. Let's hope for a new trilogy following Juliette and Co as they make their new life - and find out what happens to the occupants of the other silos.
Besser als Wool, marginal weniger gut als Shift.
Guter, wenn auch nicht spektakulärer, Abschluss der Reihe.
This was a series I really enjoyed. The first few books are broken up into novellas, but stay the course and the books do get longer. They are split into “Wool”, “Shift” and “Dust”. The series is a post-apocalyptic novel about people living in underground bunkers or silos of 144 levels, not daring to venture outside. However, we soon find out there is more to the story; political unrest, heroes, villains and a kind of class system (Up-tops, Mids and Down Deep) within the silos.
The characterization of the book is wonderfully done and the author Hugh Howey really creates an interesting world that you feel you can't escape from. Many times I thought I knew how the story was going to turn out, but there are many twists and turns and I was engaged right to the end.
I did it! I read it! This one took me a while to get through but I thoroughly enjoyed it. A satisfying conclusion to a great SciFi trilogy, although there were a few plot points that weren't really resolved.
I've been recommending these books to everyone and will continue to do so for some time!
The Silo series feels like a more realistic version of Fallout (the video game). This conclusion to the trilogy wraps up enough storylines and plots that just about all questions are answered - which was somewhat satisfying, but felt it was missing the same sense of mystery as part 1.
The Silo series feels like a more realistic version of Fallout (the video game). This conclusion to the trilogy wraps up enough storylines and plots that just about all questions are answered - which was somewhat satisfying, but felt it was missing the same sense of mystery as part 1.
I'm glad I finished the series, but I found it a lot less compelling than the first two books.
El principio es lento, el medio esta muy interesante y el final es un poco flojo.
En general mucho mas flojo que Wool.
Los personajes tampoco estan demasiado definidos. Lukas, Nelson, Ralph, todos me parecen mas o menos.
Creo que es un libro que simplemente sigue con las lineas de los demas libros sin dar ningun cambio realmente interesante.
Por otro lado, el mundo sigue estando muy buen definido. Aunque no parece que crezca con respecto a Wool.
A great conclusion (if it is actually the end) to the Silo Saga. So much happens in this book and it's rich with emotion, tension, and sadness. This book was my favorite besides WOOL.
Book Review: Dust by Hugh Howey - The story comes to an end. Hugh Howey broke into internet fame just three years ago when he published his short story Wool. Since then Howey has rounded out the short story, with nearly 1200 pages more. Dust is the conclusion.
While I enjoyed the book, I don't think that the series really lived up to the hype (or the promise) of the first book.
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Dust finishes off Howey's Silo Saga with both literal and figurative bangs. It maintains the claustrophobic feel and intense pace of his earlier works while making me get sadder and sadder as chapters go on. I saw a cat that had been hit by a car today and burst into tears remembering... Solo and Shadow. Every time he mentions that cat I start getting weepy. Like way weepier than I got for Lukas or Donny. Is that weird?. It does a really nice job of closing up some plot holes and connecting bits of Wool and Shift in a way that makes everything feel better connected than the transition between those two books themselves.
Also, we get Juliette back (yay!) even though I spend most of the book being really upset that nothing ever goes according to her plans and then just being sad that one of my favorite power couples barely gets a thousand words to actually be a power couple. That was a disappointing death and Lukas as a character is just wasted after Wool. We also get Charlotte, a much needed piece of perspective point of view. Donny starts turning into a real character and Solo gets to really shine. The story seems a bit faster paced than Shift and was a lot harder to put down. I have to hand it to Howey that he does a great job integrating complex female viewpoints without any hint of romantic subplot. Odd considering the controversy he stirred up a few years ago over his ex, but I will still award him 10 points for giving me women to identify with in science fiction.
The only thing I really had a problem with was the initial panic after everyone relocates to Silo 17, in particular the crazy church. I get that fighting, looting, and laying claim to as much food and land as people can makes for a pretty realistic mini-apocalypse. However 24 hours in and you're forcing 7 year olds into marriage with crazy cults? That chapter kinda snapped by suspension of disbelief, and seeing as nothing really comes of it and it has no effect on the story afterwards, it was a bit of a let down few chapters.
As a conclusion to the series, it is well worth reading and offers a much-needed ray of hope into the post-apocalyptic genre. It isn't a perfect book, but it's still an enjoyable and emotional read.
I enjoyed the series –mostly– but just sorta lost steam on this final one. I didn't care about the outcome, so I put it down.
Despite a slow start this book ramped up to give a great conclusion to a really enjoyable trilogy. The 2nd book is the best in my opinion but the trilogy as whole gets 5 stars, I highly recommend it!
A fabulous ending to the trilogy.
Looking forward to the other series branches...