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As you may have gathered from the previous review of the second book in the Silo Saga by Hugh Howey, Shift , the stage was rather well set for the last part of the series, Dust , and expectations were soaring rather high... to such an extent that many people, myself included, had a lot of trouble imagining how he could tie all the loose ends together. Many a book in literature has suffered deeply from the author's inability to wrap things up and give a solid ending... and thankfully, that is a fate Dust has certainly avoided with unimaginable success.

Through arts and literature Man has sought to develop himself from within, to elevate himself intellectually and spiritually... and through technological progress and science, Man sought to take complete control of the world, becoming the master of his own fate. However, as Hugh Howey explores it in his Silo Saga , there is a certain threshold to how much humanity can discipline itself, and how much it can control what it unleashes into the world.

Wool by Hugh Howey, like many novels today, takes place in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, though thankfully it’s pretty void of zombies. More precisely, it follows the lives of certain people living in an underground silo, a few hundred stories deep. None have gone to the surface for ages now, and it has come to the point that not going outside is the most important rule to follow.