Wool: A Page-Turner Novella

Engaging and short page-turner story.

Wool

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Personal Rating: 5

Writing: 5

Character Development: 5

Plot: 5

Readability: 5

Book Cover: 3

Theme: 5

Impact on Readers: 5

Satisfaction: 5

II didn’t expect much from this book, mostly because it’s a novella and I like epic stories. But I was wrong.

It’s a sequence of series of novellas. And precisely because each is short, they have full story structures delivered in each short span of pages. And that’s what makes it a page-turner. It omits the mushy middle that you find in most 450+ pages of books. When you read it you won’t feel as if it’s first 100 pages were highly edited, while the rest of it has mushy middle and end. Because, you’ll realize, the book itself is of around 68 pages. And that’s a brilliant book-publishing strategy that we are seeing more recently. Look at Binti, look at the Murderbot Diaries—they all are novella series. I believe, novella-series is going to be the future of book publishing. Because in the end, readers want good things that take little time, which they can finish. And books with mushy-middle or terrible end isn’t something they can finish. And no one likes to DNF.

So, Wool—a book about a husband in the security department who lost his wife a few years ago, because his wife suddenly chose to rebel against the system that forces them to live under the earth-ground.

You’ll find evocative setting descriptions, you’ll find engaging voice, you’ll find intriguing politics with conspiracy theory touch, and none of it will feel dry. You wouldn’t want to skip them like you wanted to skip much of 1984 or Dunes.

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