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This was an absolute disappointment. I was going to give it two stars but after the long infuriating trek through this mess of a conclusion I just can’t bring myself to give it more than one.

I feel badly being negative but this is just deserving of it. Shift had such promise of what was to come. It built up my expectations to a conclusion of hope and these characters who were finally developed after a weak origin in Wool would finally come into their own.

Instead I was given characters who were absolute idiots and could never understand what is in their own best interest. The whole premise of this story was that a group of people hit the reset button on humanity because we had gotten out of control and lapsed into nothing but destruction. Putting survivors underground to rebuild for hundreds of years so that perhaps we could become better.

What we have is not only a complete failure of this plan a sacrifice but we have survivors who should not have been the ones to succeed because they represent the worst of us. The “heroes� constantly make things worse for the people they try to help because of their own egos, selfishness and drive for revenge.

Wool set the world, Shift clarified it and gave us hope, and Dust did what the title promises...took this series with such potential and turned it into a disappointing dust from which nothing will ever grow.

In fiction we are given the opportunity to create worlds and universes that are better than our own. Reading is an escape into places we wish to one day be able to visit, rescue, or even destroy. But here we are given our own world that has no hope. The best of us die, the worst of us live, and we are doomed to live in this cycle of disappointment and misery for all eternity.