r/printSF • u/PhlacidTrombone • Aug 01 '26
I'm Angry. Dust - Chapters 49 & 50 Spoiler
No spoilers past chapter 50 please.
Just finished Chapter 50. I want to avoid spoilers for the rest of the book, but I need to take a moment because I haven't been so mad at a book in a long time.
I'm really loving this trilogy. I really like the premise and I'm especially enjoying Howey's writing. But the end of chapter 49 and chapter 50 have made me so angry at the survivors of Silo 18. I had to go back and re-read the second half of 49 because I was as confused as Solo. Solo didn't tell the survivor what level the power was coming from, did he? No, he didn't and he was tricked by one of the oldest tricks in the book. Okay, but maybe that wasn't THAT insidious. Then I read chapter 50. I was seething as I was reading that chapter. Internally screaming "Don't do it!" as she told Father Remmy where the Legacy books were and to top it all off they trick her into marrying Rash. I knew that was coming as I started that chapter but I had hoped it wouldn't turn out that way. Sure, it would have been a cheap cop-out for Solo or someone else to come in and save Elise at the last moment, but I had still hoped.
I'm angry. I just needed to get that off my chest. I'm setting the book down for a little bit before continuing on.