Review: Psychic-turned-healer in the silo? Count me out.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 26, 2013
I am an avid reader not only of the Wool series, but of the Wool fanfics. There was a time when I had read them all, but with the recent surge of new titles, it's getting hard to keep track and finding time to read other stuff as well. Thus, recently, I've been leaving out some ambitious first-parts of trilogies or worse. As a stand-alone story, Visions of Wool quickly rose to the top of the pile.Now, let me be clear that I'm not one for spiritualism or supernatural, unexplained powers. As such, I probably should have passed on this psychic-turned-healer tale. In the end, it was hard for me to conjure up much love for the direction the story went in. I didn't care much for the introduction of an emergency elevator or handy two-way walkie-talkies either, as it retracts somewhat of the core concept to be found in the source material.I'm still not flunking this fanfic, but leaving it with two stars. Though I'm no fan of the storyline, nor the way the silo concept is put to use, I fairly liked the author's writing style, and the dialogue was pretty good as well.