Dust (Silo, #3) in Our Shared Shelf

Jul 26, 2014 Otis Chandler rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, sci-fi, post-apocalyptic

What a fun series. I loved Wool, and Dust and Shift both gave us the backstory to explain the world and how it ended up. I think the first book was by far the best, but this gave us a nice conclusion.

(view spoiler) What a fun series. I loved Wool, and Dust and Shift both gave us the backstory to explain the world and how it ended up. I think the first book was by far the best, but this gave us a nice conclusion.

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If anything, I think this book is about hope and resiliency. Jules and Donald and even Solo weren't perfect, and suffered through a lot, but the only thing that kept them going was hope of a better life, and determination to keep themselves alive. That determination defined them and was what we admired about them. The hope was what gave them their drive. Hope is a powerful and necessary part of human psychology.
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Jan 21, 2024 Alejandra rated it liked it

Better than Shift, turning the focus (mostly) back on the more interesting characters like Juliette, so when we get a Donald chapter, it feels more like a break than a sleepwalk.
I didn't fully understand the big reveals - what is the overall world breaking/saving strategy? Did anybody inside that program understand it?
It was interesting to see the depiction of the hero as she realizes that her assumptions were completely wrong, and that crowds behave irrationally.
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