Review: beyond the veil
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 30, 2013
Will Swardstrom's "The Veil" is yet another addition to the by now huge woolverse - created by Hugh Howey's hugely successful "Wool" and "Shift" books.As a reader of many wool-based fanfiction stories set in one of the 50 silos, your imagination grows, you start to know or at least suspect all the secrets and possible stories there are...... and then along comes Mary, the main character in Will Swardstrom's story. The Veil is about secrets but not the ones you might suspect but very personal ones.And it is indeed a very personal story and Mary convinces - with her thoughts, her struggles, her mistakes. At times I felt with her, at times I was more than irritated by her actions.But that's what a truely good story and a compelling character are all about: getting the reader to ask him- or herself the basic question: what would I do? I have not yet finished thinking about it :)I really hope Will Swardstrom returns to the silo and presents us another story... or another novel (like Dead Sleep);)He sure has a huge talent and should definitely keep an writing!!