Five-star Review of Across the Sand by Hugh Howey
I read Sand years ago when it was first published and it’s
stuck in my mind ever since. A world that’s been so inundated with sand that
people have to dive deep to scavenge the cities of the past required the kind
of world-building I admire. In this story, Palmer, one of those divers who
brought back relics from Danver (what’s left of current-day Denver) in the
first book, is still diving. His siblings are too, except for Rob who develops
new devices to improve those dives. Vic, the oldest sibling and a major
character in the previous novel, appears only briefly at the beginning of this
sequel. In another locale, a girl witnesses the destruction of her city and
then stows away on a train containing her father. Interesting characters and
relationships make the story even better.
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