You don't want to be that douche who thinks he is the first person in 500 comments to think to inform me that wool was used for cleaning, or that is was a metaphor. Please read the comments (even the first page or two).

This review has been around for almost two years, and it has spawned a wonderful bunch of friendly people who laugh and joke in the comment section - many (most?) of whom completely disagree with me. I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend it to all lovers of dystopian fiction.ĭespite complaining about the way it has been serialised I am hoping the author has lots more little stories about this world coming.ĮTA: Before you comment. It has a fairly original concept that kept me thinking. The type that creeps back into your mind months after you have read it. The type that leaves you thinking about it for days. Usually I do like to give a summary of the novel but I won't in this review as I think there are lots of refreshing little things about the novel that are enjoyable to discover while reading, plus a few good places where you can say 'oh wow I didn't see that coming'. Finally a novel that I don't think I could flippantly surmise in a paragraph or two. The novel was original and highly interesting. None of that has anything to do with the novel. Perhaps good for the authors pocket but it doesn't endear me toward him. In fact because I didn't realise it was a series of novellas I bought the first part plus the omnibus which was silly of me. Just sell the omnibus edition, ebook users can read a sample anyway, the $6 price tag is very reasonable for the whole book. They are also all the size of novellas not novels, making this omnibus edition about the size of a book. As far as books/stories/novellas go only WOOL1 and WOOL 3 really stand alone. The author asks at the end of this omnibus if the reader would rate and review each book separately. The second stupid thing about SILO (okay WOOL but my name is better) is that it is serialised into individual books. Because it is a much better name that will actually appeal to the target market. Hereafter I shall refer to the book as such. I shall rename the book for the author SILO. Given the subtitles are all knitting related (unravel, cast off etc) I think the book should have been called 'knitting' and then the book would have never sold a single copy. There is one tiny insignificant piece where a character is knitting but she isn't even using wool, she knits with cotton. There are no sheep in this book, there is no wool in this book. It is like a garage band was after a clever name. The writing is good, the story is original, I highly recommend this book. There are two stupid things about this book, neither have to do with the writing.

Wool by hugh howey