Review: Absolutely Fan-Freakin'-Tastic! Adds to the Epic Beautifully.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2013
I'm a huge fan of Hugh Howey's Wool series. I devour those words and then feel bad because I read it too fast. After reading more of his work, he has become one of my favorite authors. And I'm a tough critic and a voracious reader and so not easy to please. When I saw on the blog that a FanFic piece was coming out I had mixed feelings about it. Invariably, they change the metric and the expectations by intruding into the "universe" the original auther has painstakingly created. Sometimes, they can box the author in by using some part of the universe that may be needed in the future.In this case, Mr. Howey fully endorsed this and enjoyed it. His universe is, by it's very nature, a constrained one with limited numbers of places to go and if he feels good about using two of those places this way, then who am I to argue.So, I immediately popped over to Amazon, purchased this story and fell instantly into the down deep. This story, while wildly different from the rest of the Wool stories, fits like the missing piece of the puzzle. The strength of the characters, the passion of the writer for detail and depth and the emotional impact of the situation is spot on.In short, this story was just delicious and nearly perfect. These are characters I won't forget and I sure do hope that the author and Hugh Howey will work out a way to bring this to a beautiful further conclusion in some other volume. It has such potential for future ripples in that universe's fabric that I would hate to see it wasted.Now....If I could only figure out which of the silos it was so I could mark it on my mental map...Highly recommended for readers of the Wool series. Those not yet familiar with that series will probably not "get" all the inside references. If you've read these reviews and the blurb up top and feel interested, but haven't yet read Wool, then this is a great chance to fill a gap in your reading experience you never knew you had.