Hugh Howey hooks you once again in another brilliantly imagined world. This time in a world of sand.
Sand covers everything. It has buried cities, it has buried people and it has buried secrets. People carve out an existence literally by hand. Everything is scarce, especially hope. One of the booming trades though is diving. Using specially designed suits ‘divers’ are able to dive beneath the sand dunes, recovering valuable artifacts from a buried world hundreds of metres below the ground.
Diving is a precious skill, one four siblings have been passed down from their father. However when he walked out on their family 12 years ago everything they had built and worked for was lost and their family broke apart as they tried to survive and find their place in this harsh and desolate world.
Rumours exist of a lost city full of treasures deeper than anyone has ever dived before. Vic, the eldest sibling and best diver doesn’t believe the rumours but her brother Palmer does and he has a lot to try and prove. Finding the lost city could be the way to put his family back together but there are many dangers buried above and below the sand.
Howey proved with the Wool Trilogy that he is a master of world building and all the different stories you can find inside. He does it again with the sand and dunes giving his imagination even more space to grow. The sand diving aspect is fantastic adding another dimension to the tradition of desert ‘seafaring’. Howey wraps the story up nicely with just a hint that their might be more of this world to explore in the future.
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Hysterical! The bill around the breathing apparatus is funny.
very cute, has he got flippers on his flippers?
…and it’s adorable!
It’s adorable:)
This made me laugh — the wings coming out of the wet suit! Ha!
Very cute!
oh…so this is the way that swans can go underwater!!
Thanks, Kathryn! That area gave me a little trouble, but I persevered! Glad you liked it!
Thanks Jacqui! I know! A bit redundant, but he was feeling a bit uncertain, being his first dive, hee hee.
So, so cute!!
Thanks!
Thanks!
Thanks, Madre!
Hee hee, thanks! Glad you liked that. It made me giggle when I was drawing it!
Little known fact, Susanna, hee hee!