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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 [...]
A society where just a handful of people have control over the transmission of information, where history is being constantly revised to hide the nature of uncomfortable events, where certain gestures and thoughts are subject to severe punishment – not because they’re harmful to other people, but to the status quo -, and where the government doesn’t hesitate to violently suppress any opposition: the universe of Wool, a science fiction novel written by Hugh Howey, can be considered both dystopian and relevant to current times.
The protagonist of Wool is Juliette, a brilliant mechanic who is suddenly, and [...]