Wool 4

the unraveling

159 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2012 by [H. Howey].

ISBN:
978-1-4681-3233-5
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OCLC Number:
794554017

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4 stars (4 reviews)

A long, long time ago, an uprising erupted in Silo 18. The descendants of that great clash have been raised in its shadow. Nobody knows what went wrong. Nobody talks about what happened. Like all wars, it went from being something one could learn from-- to a legend one merely learns about. Now almost two hundred years later, the people of Silo 18 will get more than just a chance to learn about that uprising. They'll get to start one of their own ... (taken from back cover).

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Review of 'Wool 4' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

It's getting harder to not spoil the story in my summaries, so please bear with me. Wool 4 does exactly as the subtitle suggests. It shows how the situation in silo 18 is unraveling. An uprising begins, displaying the easy capability of people to manufacture weapons.

With every story, the narrative has gotten more complex. In Wool 1, you had the very tight narrative of Holston. Wool 2 had the mayor and the deputy. Wool 4 handles several distinctly different PoVs and ends each that you're waiting with held breath for the story to switch back to them.

Wool 1-4 are about 60% of the Omnibus edition, so Wool 5 will be fairly massive, compared to how short the other stories were.

Still definitely recommending it and looking forward to the finale.

Review of 'Wool 4' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I recently got this when it was a free Kindle download. I am a huge fan of dystopian fiction. Wool is a very short read, it's a novelette of about 12,000 words. It really grabbed me and didn't let go until I finished it in record time. The protagonist Holston is the sheriff of the inhabitants of a silo, a dystopian society. Outside cameras show a world in brown and grays, toxic and lifeless. Every few years a criminal is assigned to go out and clean the cameras on the outside of the silo, a death sentence. The book starts with Holston volunteering to go out and clean.

I would give it 5 stars if the end wasn't so jarring. It's not even a cliffhanger, it just ends. Of course now I have to get the rest as well. Apparently there are 4 more books set in the world of …

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Subjects

  • Underground areas
  • Fiction
  • Survival
  • Zones souterraines
  • Romans, nouvelles
  • Habiletés de survie