Review: A capativating novel with a disappointing ending.............
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 2, 2014
First I want to praise the  writing skills, the innate creativity and the emotionality that went into the writing of this Wool sequel.  The author is able to immerse the reader back into the claustrophobic atmosphere of Silo 2.  She does so through the eyes of a secondary character from the original series, namely Helen aka Karma.  Her insertion into this surreal world is not only initially dramatic but we follow her life through the ensuing fifty years of her raising of children, being the wife to the head of I.T. and her tireless work to not only remember how life was before the holocaust but to overcome and conquer the perverse conditions in which they presently live.SPOILER ALERTMy problem lies with the novel’s ending.  Is Karma originally hallucinating the green and blue earth she sees as she comes out from the Silo, or are the dark clouds the illusion?  If she sacrificed her life for the good of the others, why didn’t she give them a view of where the exterior cameras, connecting pipelines or communication stations?  How would the Senator recognize her after all the years that have passed since they knew one another?  If the air was toxic, why wasn’t the Senator also in a air-tight suit?  Yes, the ending does leave a glimmer of hope for the ensuing generations of silo dwellers but it could have been done in a more realistic manner.  Because of this my rating went from a five to a three..................