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4.24 AVERAGE
4.24 AVERAGE
If someone asked me to describe 'Casting off' or whole series (so far) I would not know where to begin. So that's why I think this quote (from this particular part) can explain it for me:
“It would be like telling someone what sex felt like, or an orgasm. Impossible. But once you felt it yourself, you could then imagine varying degrees of this new sensation.”
In other words, you need to read it yourself. And let's just say... if the story pulls you in, there's no backing out.
“It would be like telling someone what sex felt like, or an orgasm. Impossible. But once you felt it yourself, you could then imagine varying degrees of this new sensation.”
In other words, you need to read it yourself. And let's just say... if the story pulls you in, there's no backing out.
So, with this installment, things are finally starting to become clear. A lot of missing background comes out in this, and you finally get to spend enough time with one character to really start to bond.
This was the only part of the Wool series that interested me. Juliette was interesting and her appointment was the high point of the book. I didn’t realize until recently that I read the Omnibus version and therefore read the entire series.
Probably my favorite Wool so far, I'd dare to say the ending of 3 was better than 2.
Hugh Howey writes his stories in such a way that you either buy many little sections to make up the whole book or (you do what I do) you wait until the entire collection is possible in book format. There is nothing wrong with this, I merely find it difficult to review each individual section as, for me, the whole is worth more than the parts.
So, with that in mind, here is a review of the collective for you (so you can make a decision about whether the Wool trilogy is right for you):
I wasn’t quite sure what I expected with this book considering all the great comments that have been made about it, in all honesty part of me was expecting to be disappointed. I think the comment that had me expecting the most was when the book was called the next Hunger Games, as whilst the Hunger Games trilogy was not my favourite series there is certainly a very large fandom which leaves you expecting great things. With that in mind, I think I can safely say that this is the best dystopian series I have read. In fact, I think it is the best trilogy I have read in a while.
From the very start the book is filled with action, events playing out at a great rate, the action never ending. All the characters are really well developed and for once we’re not dealing with a group of teenagers stuck inside of the dystopian world: we’re given fleshed out adults, those who have been stuck in this world for years and are now seeing the world for what it really is. Honestly there is so much that could be said and yet I fear if I say too much I will soon start spoiling things for people. Believe me when I say that once you start reading it you will be gripped, picking up one book and then the next.
So, with that in mind, here is a review of the collective for you (so you can make a decision about whether the Wool trilogy is right for you):
I wasn’t quite sure what I expected with this book considering all the great comments that have been made about it, in all honesty part of me was expecting to be disappointed. I think the comment that had me expecting the most was when the book was called the next Hunger Games, as whilst the Hunger Games trilogy was not my favourite series there is certainly a very large fandom which leaves you expecting great things. With that in mind, I think I can safely say that this is the best dystopian series I have read. In fact, I think it is the best trilogy I have read in a while.
From the very start the book is filled with action, events playing out at a great rate, the action never ending. All the characters are really well developed and for once we’re not dealing with a group of teenagers stuck inside of the dystopian world: we’re given fleshed out adults, those who have been stuck in this world for years and are now seeing the world for what it really is. Honestly there is so much that could be said and yet I fear if I say too much I will soon start spoiling things for people. Believe me when I say that once you start reading it you will be gripped, picking up one book and then the next.
These books were fantastic. Well written, a fully formed world and characters I truly cared about. The entire world is a silo reaching thousands of feet into the earth and a scorched and toxic landscape above, and it's been that way for generations. Luckily (or not so much), people never really change, do they?
During the first one, I thought I'd probably read the sequel after a few other books. No. I read it the next day. Then I started this one, again certain that I'd read something else after. Very unlikely. This series is gripping in a way I'm not used to and in much the same way as some of my favorite television series.
It becomes obvious in this volume that the distrust I felt for IT in book 2 was warranted. In the sadness and the confusion of moving past the events of book 2, it's clear that something is desperately wrong with the world that these people are living in and who they put their faith in. Juliette is justifiably suspicious after events take place that should not have happened. Rather than be further vague in the efforts of avoiding a spoiler, I will just say this series is proving itself to be more interesting the more I read. I definitely recommend it to lovers of dystopian or post apocalyptic worlds.
How 'Casting Off' went for me.
I am loving this. LOVING!!!!
My biggest issue is that I'm listening to this while walking so therefore I'm doing all the above in public. Plus side to this is that people are actively avoiding my space while I walk so, SCORE!!
Minnie Goode the narrator is just fucking awesome and I can't recommend the audio enough. The voices are totally distinguishable, once I got used to the 'voice acting' it just started getting better and better. She is currently narrating everything I read in my head now. So that's nice. I'm kind of crushing on her to tell the truth!!
I am loving this. LOVING!!!!
My biggest issue is that I'm listening to this while walking so therefore I'm doing all the above in public. Plus side to this is that people are actively avoiding my space while I walk so, SCORE!!
Minnie Goode the narrator is just fucking awesome and I can't recommend the audio enough. The voices are totally distinguishable, once I got used to the 'voice acting' it just started getting better and better. She is currently narrating everything I read in my head now. So that's nice. I'm kind of crushing on her to tell the truth!!