A review by monicalaurette
Wool by Hugh Howey

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

“And yet, his feet moved. They carried him down the hidden passageway and into a room full of the strange and curious, a place that made the charting of stars seem insignificant, a den where the sense of the world’s scale, of size, took on wholly new proportions.”

This book was, to me, a roller coaster. There was confusion at first of what is going on, why are people doing the things they are, and then I just quickly fell in love with so many of them just for some of them to be ripped away (sorry for the spoiler but don’t like any characters until at least half way through just to be safe but even then you won’t).

The world building in this book was also very interesting. While for most of the book you’re just in that Silo, there were so many layers and groups of people depending on those layers was so interesting. Like how was there such a disconnect from the lower levels to the top levels when they are all one big community? To me you can just find that with different cities in the world that have different areas where the people who live there have different levels of socio-economic status.

“And so the descent, this spiraling downward, was much like the drowning that swallowed her at night. It felt inexorable and inextricable. Like a weight pulling her down combined with the knowledge that she’d never be able to claw her way back up.

I wish I had found this book when I was younger, or I had read them when I first added them to my shelf because I loved it so much. I give this book 5 stars because it was just such a fun experience for me to go through and I can’t wait to read more about these giant silos in the ground.

“These would be the parts of her that rotted last, the bits left over once the rest skittered off on the wind or was drunk deep by the roots.”

I almost ended the book when Marnes died after Jahns because I wanted them to be a couple so BAD! Literally wrote down that they’ll be together in the dirt because they were buried during the same week basically.
From the first moment I saw Bernard I disliked him, and he in my mind is the one that killed Jahns.
At first I didn’t know how I’d like the relationship between Lukas and Jules but by the end of the book I feel that I grew to like him just like Jules did - though I could see them being a couple by the first time they interacted.
I thought Solo was killed and almost ended the book again there but glad that he’s got a purpose now with those kids!
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