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June 2026

  • Shelved The Fellowship of the Ring · Reading

  • Shelved A Storm of Swords · Want to read

  • Shelved The Three-Body Problem · Finished

  • Shelved The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time · Want to read

  • Shelved The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul · Finished

  • Shelved The God of the Woods · Finished

  • Shelved The City & the City · Want to read

  • Shelved Shift · Finished

  • Shelved Nichijou, 1 by Keiichi Arawi · Finished

  • Shelved Insomnia · Finished

  • Shelved Heretics of Dune · Want to read

  • Shelved Dune Messiah · Finished

  • Shelved House of Flame and Shadow · Finished

  • Shelved God Emperor of Dune · Finished

  • Shelved Enchantra · Finished

  • Dust by Hugh Howey

    <div>I felt Wool was good and I loved Shift but this book just didn't hit the same. There are some glaring issues that just didn't sit right for me. I wish I had notable good things to say about this book but I kind of just don't? It was mostly okay with one good action scene, but nothing stood out as being otherwise exceptional. In terms of the plot this book sort of wraps things up as well as it <em>should</em>, but I don't find the conclusion satisfying. Like other reviewers have mentioned I hope the television adaptation cleans things up; the plot and characters in the television adaptation are much more compelling.&nbsp;<br><br>This series isn't about emotional characters and scenes, it's all about plot. That makes the attempts at creating attachment to the characters and writing emotions for them distracting and not convincing. Juliette's romance felt forced and as though both people involved felt the other was a chore. I believe the series would have done just fine without that element. There is a scene that is obviously highly uncomfortable, but the problem is that the scene mostly comes out of nowhere and it has no impact on the rest of the story. The message the author is likely trying to get across had already been communicated in several other ways and could have been further communicated in many other ways. He is not the author to write that scene. Frankly I'm unsure whether this was supposed to be a commentary by the author of his views on certain non-fiction organizations because this was otherwise highly out of place in the series.<br><br>The conclusion of the book is rather sudden. It gives me the feeling that the author wrote page 400, decided that was enough, and wanted to wrap it up. This should have likely been two separate books. There are a couple of reasons why the ending doesn't make sense which I have put in the spoiler section below.<br><br>Overall the series is good and I'd recommend it to others. I'm looking forward to the new Silo 40 series the author is working on.<br><br>&lt;spoiler&gt;<br>I find it hard to believe that Juliette would both:<br>1. Give up her fight against Silo 1 (which from her perspective she does not learn the fate of, at least explicitly); and<br>2. Leave the hundreds of thousands of people in the other silos to eventually just find their own way out.<br><br>She talks for the majority of the series about how other silos, other worlds, each full of their own people, exist, and yet she just leaves them to maybe die? Juliette wouldn't do that, she'd fight for their freedom even if that meant doing it alone.<br>&lt;/spoiler&gt;</div>

  • Shelved Dust · Finished

  • Shelved Dune · Finished

  • Shelved Drowned Country · Finished

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