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A review by cait_s
Sand by Hugh Howey
4.0
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.