Review: Wowie Zowie, what a great surprise!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 1, 2013
I finished reading The Sky Used to be Blue and found that I was filled with clichés… “like coming come”, “like cool water to a weary soul”, “like finding a long lost friend”…that just happen to all be true.  Hugh Howey opened the floodgates and Patrice Fitzgerald took the helm and drove that big ship into the harbor.  Furthermore, if I didn’t know better, I’d think that Hugh Howey has legions of ghostwriters on his staff and Fitzgerald is leading the pack.All this is to say that Fitzgerald can do some mighty fine storytelling, so good and true to Howey’s Wooliverse, I’d nearly think he wrote it himself. I fully enjoyed Howey’s Trilogy but hated when it was over.  Fitzgerald remedied that little problem straight up with The Sky Used to be Blue.  She took me right back to the suffocating Silos, to people who have forgotten...perhaps willingly and offered answers to some questions that were left unasked.  More than that, she brought bitter-sweet heartache to the page with a character I always felt that there was so much story left untold.I am anticipating further delightful reading in the follow-up stories to come.  If I had any negative comment to make it would be that I know these good stories will come to an end as well.  I suspect I’m going to enjoy reading every last word too.  A must read for any Wool Fan!!!