Beverly's Reviews > Across the Sand

Hugh Howey's Sand sequel, Across the Sand, was gifted to me in a Goodreads giveaway by the publisher, Harper Collins. I was very excited to receive it since I loved his Wool trilogy immensely. The Wool Omnibus and the Sand books are set in a post-apocalyptic United States. The timeline is fuzzy, but it is long past our era.

Howey is very skilled at world building and the Sand books are set in a dour and dismal dystopia in which a small town's people eke out a poor existence by digging underground for the spoils of the last, lost civilization. The first book focused on the parents and their terrible choices. This book is about the siblings who have been scattered like the sand that dominate their lives. The oldest sister was last seen on her way to destroy their rival city.

The boys are in serious trouble as well. Palmer is being targeted by a gang and a hit squad because he knows the location of Danvar. Conner and Rob are always at odds about what their future should be and Conner loses his faith in Rob. And their newly found younger sister Violet is just happy to no longer be a slave in Aygl.They are all smart and tenacious and keep coming back against incredible odds.