
Most importantly they meet Juliette, a young mechanic working and living on one of the lowest levels. The deputy that served under Holston, the mayor of the Silo, the head of the IT department, etc.

In the four subsequent sections, readers meet several key characters. After two years of mourning his wife, he thinks he has learned his wife's secret knowledge. The punishment also includes CLEANING the lenses after a cleaning, those who want can look outside at the barren world.if they're willing to climb all those stairs! Most born in the lower levels (there are 149 levels, I believe) don't ever go journeying that far. The only fit punishment is to send the person outside-in a well-protected environmental suit. To ask such a thing clearly shows your insane. It led her to do something illegal: ask to go outside the silo. This knowledge made her appear quite mad to most. A few years before the novel begins, Allison learned something: something big, something secret. In the first story, "Wool," readers meet Sheriff Holston and learn of his wife, Allison.

It felt genuine too readers are shown what life is like in the silo sometimes in dystopian novels, the emphasis is on the telling. The world-building in this novel is amazing. It was uncomfortable in places because the action was intense and one didn't know what the outcome would be, but that is a good thing.

It was so very, very good! So incredibly compelling! And the other sections kept me hooked, kept me reading. While they thundered about frantically above, Holston took his time, each step methodical and ponderous, as he wound his way around and around the spiral staircase, old boots ringing out on metal treads.Īfter seeing Seth's review of Wool, I knew I HAD to read this book. The children were playing while Holston climbed to his death he could hear them squealing as only happy children do.
