Third Shift

Shift is a prequel to Wool and also offers a different side of the story of what happened in Wool. It partially explains how the silo came to be and where it is heading.

Shift only contains 3 parts, whereas Wool had 5, but it has about the same number of pages. This means that the stories in Shift are a bit slower. They take a little more time to get going and there's more background given.

In general, I liked Wool better, but still very much enjoyed this look behind the scenes of what happened previously. Although it's possible to read Shift first, it'll ruin your enjoyment of Wool.

Here's an idea... Let's take all the characters you fell in love with in the first book (remember we left them in a "cliffhanger" in the first book as well), and completely ignore them for this book.

Howey did the two things I HATE in writing.

1) Ignore beloved characters, saving them for the next title.
2) Only writing a book that transitions to the climax expected in the next book (or last book).

DON'T PUSH OFF BELOVED CHARACTERS! And put some substance in the middle book of a trilogy...seriously. I'm tired of reading the second book in a trilogy only to find that it's a setup book for the final one. Setup, but at least have a good stand alone plot as well.

This one almost made me put the entire series down...