I just finished reading the Silo book series. My edition includes 3 additional Silo stories by the author, which I read. I regret that. I liked the first story where the guy takes his family to a remote cabin because he doesn’t want to spend his life doing shifts with them in the deep freeze. The freshness of his choice and his experience of doomsday was a good addition to the oeuvre.
The second and third stories should have been one, in my opinion, because the first set up the action of the third. I will say that the second story did explain at the cryochambers for women and children weren’t to save them, but to get the men to go along with the plan. Further, because of their misunderstanding of The Order, their calculations for how long they would remain in isolation were vastly incorrect, the reader could see how people came to be in the position of making decisions about who lives and who dies. Ok. It’s a another layer of perspective.
The third and final story, however, destroys the beauty of the conclusion of Dust. Juliette puts her anger at Silo 1 and her desire for revenge aside in order to lead her people out of isolation into the beautiful, sustainable world that exists. Tracy used their only pod to set her sister and brother-in-law to be a walking time bomb of vengeance, killing the heroine of the series. That sucked. My only comfort was knowing that she would no longer be missing Lucas, but she deserved better. And the two who killed her, having made it the 500 years in the pod plus some, died in ignorance.
What are your thoughts? Are you glad you read them, or do you wish you didn’t?
by ConstanceAnnJones