Review

I just finished reading Shift and I want to write about how it made me feel.

I read the last 60 or so pages in one day - today. The rest of it, over the past month. It is a long book. It took time to read. I could not find time over the weekend. Otherwise, I had been slowly reading it, one lunch break at a time.

This is the second book in the Silo series. It describes the reason behind the Silos. Why they exist. It gives a voice to the villains.

We follow Donald, a man out of place across time (three distinct phases) as he tries to get to the truth of this world and how it was formed. In each phase, there are different characters we follow telling the story of the silo. Also, we know who Solo was, his back story. How he came to become Solo. I enjoyed those parts.

I don’t think I enjoyed it as much as the first book though - the main reason being that I took time to finish it. I think. But this sets up the final book pretty nicely. I am excited to follow it through the end.

Also, like Silo, at the end there is a nice essay by Hugh. I enjoyed reading it as well.

Notes

He was back to aboveground days, back when stirring and waking were two separate things. Mornings when he gained consciousness in the shower or behind the wheel on his way into work, long after he had begun to move. The mind lagged behind the body; it swam through the dust kicked up by numb and shuffling feet.