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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
Divided into five sections, and meant to be read separately. If you found them like I did, as an omnibus, it's up to you.
Sand covers everything. It seeps into buildings, covers clothes, even ends up in the mouths of the people living in it. Deep down, the sand hides whole cities--and the current towns, ramshackle and desperate, are slowly being swallowed as well. Some people, divers, make their living fighting back against the sand, reclaiming the treasures it hides.
The story follows a family, mostly focusing on the siblings, Palmer, Conner, Rob, and Victoria. Their father abandoned them, walking out across the sand, and each has found their own way to cope--from anger to sadness. Each works to take a little life back from the sand, and when they become entangled in a mystery under the sand, they might lose more than one member of their family.
A bleak landscape, and a pretty bleak life for the characters, but there's hope there, and plenty of adventures. Little fights, and big ones--and there's some impressively big badness looming over the horizon, running under the first few books, and then exploding onto the page in the last ones.
Each ending is a good pause, and the last one an ending flourish. Howey doesn't tend to tie things up in a bow, and he doesn't with this book either. But the ending is well worth the read, a quick and effective emotional punch.
Sand covers everything. It seeps into buildings, covers clothes, even ends up in the mouths of the people living in it. Deep down, the sand hides whole cities--and the current towns, ramshackle and desperate, are slowly being swallowed as well. Some people, divers, make their living fighting back against the sand, reclaiming the treasures it hides.
The story follows a family, mostly focusing on the siblings, Palmer, Conner, Rob, and Victoria. Their father abandoned them, walking out across the sand, and each has found their own way to cope--from anger to sadness. Each works to take a little life back from the sand, and when they become entangled in a mystery under the sand, they might lose more than one member of their family.
A bleak landscape, and a pretty bleak life for the characters, but there's hope there, and plenty of adventures. Little fights, and big ones--and there's some impressively big badness looming over the horizon, running under the first few books, and then exploding onto the page in the last ones.
Each ending is a good pause, and the last one an ending flourish. Howey doesn't tend to tie things up in a bow, and he doesn't with this book either. But the ending is well worth the read, a quick and effective emotional punch.
Howey gets to be a better read with each new book. This is a scary tale of our future if we continue to abuse our resources.
Incredibly creative and a great story. A little hard to follow when trying to visualize the different technologies the sand divers used. I wanted the story to keep going!
A group of scarred and imperfect characters doing the best they can under horrible circumstances. I found the world fascinating. The ending felt sudden and disappointing at the time, but it is growing on me as I look back on it.
I had high hopes for this book. After having read and loved the Wool series, I was primed for more awesomeness and Howey delivers. The book is another incredibly well-developed, original world. The characters are introduced and a sense of who they really are is present. There is a bigger sense of adventure in Sand than in Wool and it works! I forced myself to read this more slowly as I was enjoying it so much and I know it will be a while before we get more. Highly recommend!
Couldn't wait for this to be over. Eventually just started skimming and that's never good. It drug on and on, with no resolution in the end, so that's great! Definitely not the best Howey work.
For the first half an hour or so of reading I thought I was going to be disappointed by this book but I soon realised I was wrong. Soon enough I was as caught up in this story as I ever was in the Wool trilogy. I especially like the way the story was told through the viewpoints of the different siblings; gradually the world grew richer and the family ties deeper through this storytelling device. But, as many other reviews note, it does feel unfinished; when I got to the end I was looking for the next book in the trilogy. I hope Howey is writing it.
Did I like this better than Wool? I might have...huh.
Enjoyed this better than Silo, believe it or not. I was more personally engaged with the characters which kept my attention throughout.
4.5 stars only because I liked Wool even more than Sand. But, oh my gosh, I want more! Just like with Wool, I didn't want this story to end. Please tell me there will be more!!!!!!