Novel: Shift

Novel: Shift
Author: Hugh Howley
Rating: Apple out of watermelon
Non-spoiler Version: This second novel is a prequil to Silo.

Spoilery version:
The original novel, Silo, had a novel premise and a woman protagonist. This shows us where the world came from, and has male protagonists throughout.

I was really disappointed; the author invents nanomachines and has the democratic party destroy the world in order to save it from the self replicating nanomachines.

The novel followers a new member of the House of Reps as he is slowly seduced by his x-girlfriend, who never gave up on him. Its ok: he stays true to his wife for centuries, and when he realizes he was manipulated, murders the x-girlfriend seductress.

... Wait, did i say that was alright? I meant anything but.

That's a small sliver; it also follows Solo as he finds he is alone in Silo 17 and lives there, alone, for decades. His cat even dies.

That's still small; the House Rep designs the silos, and is manipulated into doing so by the old man Senator of his party. Who then destroys the world, because that's a thing Senators can do.

The writing in Silo wasn't excellent, but the premise was novel. Here, the lack of skill in the writing is brought to the forefront due to the lack of novelty in the execution.

I will probably read the third and final in the series, which takes place in the "now" of the first book. That's a time of great change, which should actually be interesting.