Two divers go out into the desert on a search&find job to try to find a long lost city. The planet is pretty much submerged by ever shifting sands. why did I enjoy it, it had nothing in it (spoilers ahead - although there is nothing to spoil).

However this one I gave 3-stars and then by the next day I was scratching my head. Sometimes I read a book, give it a rating, and then come back and upgrade the rating later (The author's previous novella 'Wool' fell into that category for me).

This wouldn't be confusing if I had hard copies, but it is confusing trying to purchase ebooks in this unclear manner. I guess why it is marketed like this is not my issue (afterall, whatever gets the author the biggest distribution - I get that), but do I want to read books distributed in this way? I dislike that they clog up my kindle screen with three books instead of just one, I dislike the confusion in names (my kindle has two books called 'Sand', which is part 1 and which is part 2 is difficult to determine without opening the books), I suppose this is better than the previous Wool/Silo series (I am not mocking the name - I promise), I no longer know what it is called and have given up buying the books because I can't figure out which ones I have read and which ones I have not, there are several omnibus editions and all manner of different titles).

is this really worthy of being called an omnibus or releasing it in small parts. It certainly wasn't over-priced (I paid $1.26 for an hour of reading, not cheap but not expensive).Īs a reader I just can't get my head around the sale of novelettes, the omnibus edition of this work will be the length of a novella. My biggest gripe is that it is another super short 'book', I suspect this one would fit into the definition of 'novelette', I didn't count the words but it took me a little over an hour to read (and book two took me 45minutes). IT does have the sort of ending typical of short stories, the type that leaves you a little bit off wondering what has happened, but it isn't marketed as a short story so it feels just like you have only ready part of the book. It has a beginning and a middle but fails to have an end. The length of the book does not allow for character development, no great story to this book. It is a good concept, but that is all it is.

Hugh howey sand series