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Written by Hugh Howey, Shift is a pointless sequel to the great Wool, treading the same grounds while trying to explain things that didn’t need to be explained in the first place – and sounding just foolish in the process. With uninteresting characters and lacking momentum going forward, the book is a huge disappointment.
Initially, the plot follows two main characters: Troy and Donald. Troy is by far the most interesting one: he is a shifter, a worker in the silos that exist underground, tasked with taking care of them for a small period of time. When his shift is over, he must go back to cryo freeze and wait for his next shift. Donald, on the other hand, is a politician [...]
Built around a society where a small group of people has a monopoly on information, transmitting only one vision of the world, where history is being constantly revised to hide the nature of uncomfortable events, where certain gestures and thoughts are subject to severe punishment, and where a violent and authoritarian government doesn’t hesitate to suppress opposing manifestations, the universe of Wool, a science fiction novel written by Hugh Howey, can clearly be considered both dystopian and important to current times. Working with elements of the genre with consistent prose, full of symbolism, the book’s faults are related only to its prolonged and [...]