Hugh Howey

One of my favourite reads so far this year! Howey's writing style clicked immediately for me and kept me moving at a fast pace. I felt like I was understanding everything and able to visualize settings and characters very easily (which you sometimes take for granted with some authors tending to go overkill and bore you with lengthy drawn out descriptions or terms that you're purposefully clueless about until you read later into the book). I thought all the characters were well developed and realized even though many met heartbreaking ends. 4.5 stars!… (more)

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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.… (more)

Es dificil escribir sobre este libro sin desvelar nada.
El libro esta dividido en 3 "shifts". Y cada uno tiene dos historias que se escriben en paralelo aunque quiza no ocurran en paralelo. Por ejemplo el primer shift consiste en dos historias una ocurriendo alrededor de ~ 2050 y otra alrededor de 2110.

Al principio esta bien pero despues de 300 paginas de cambiar de una historia a la otra y de vuelta a la misma, este sistema se hace un poco pesado.
Ademas no todas las historias son tan importante a la larga. Es un poco deprimente interesante en un personaje para que este desaparezca por siempre del libro.
Por eso le bajo la puntuacion a 3 estrellas. La mayoria del tiempo estaba pensando que le daria cuatro, no esta mal y hay un punto en concreto (el principio del tercer shift) que me parece una muy buena sorpresa. Ya lo vereis.
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