Proper Gauge

Each story from this series can stand on it's own but start with, Wool, the first in the series.This sounds like the start of something big and has a cliff hanger ending that makes the reader want to read on or linger on what are some of the consequence from the actions taking in the book. I lost sleep thinking about the possibility trying not to start the next book.
It was well-written novella/short story and the world building is detailed and in-depth. The story was a slower pace than the first book in the series but I felt it fit the situation, theme, and characters. There is not laser fight kind of action but the a political drama playing out.

Not bad. The second entry in Hugh Howey's self-published Wool series. I've heard it described as the weakest of the original five novellas, and I agree that it isn't as good as the first, but I thought it was solid.

Proper Gauge moves the story along, as the Silo's mayor travels deep down into the Silo to meet with someone, and explores the strata of the Silo as she goes. The story is fine; it's a lot of space, though – a hair under 80 pages – for what it is.

I'm told this volume sets up the remainder, and I can see how that might be. Certainly worth continuing, but not as arresting as volume 1.