I'm afraid I can't help you with that.

I haven’t read the books, but looking forward to season 2.

Season two will arrive any year now.

It was very captivating

But I found the backstory novel to be very depressing, and it was not as enjoyable

The ending of the third was pretty good, but I had some mixed feelings about it

I look forward to seeing the TV adaptions eventually

Thanks for the update

and found it to be a prequel, i.e., a backstory, to "Wool" (Vol. I). I finished reading "Wool" and want to find out what will happen next to Juliette and the other characters I'm already familiar with. So I am skipping the prequel for now, and starting to read the sequel "Dust" (Vol. III).

Just look at all the many popular horror films and books, even "dark comedy"

Describing how the world's population gets culled out, will provide oodles of entertainment for some people's tastes

( shrug )

To each their own, eh

Excellent books.

Your favorite was the prequel (Volume II), about which Pluvious said:
"I found the backstory novel to be very depressing, and it was not as enjoyable."

After reading "Wool" (Vol. I), I need to find out what will happen next to Juliette and the other characters I'm already familiar with. So I am skipping the prequel for now, and starting to read the sequel "Dust" (Vol. III).

But just barely. Common, as an actor, is really unwatchable. He is as wooden and forced as it gets IMO. The rest of the cast carried him.

I’m going to try the series out though. I didn’t realize it was a book trilogy.

In a review for the Hollywood Reporter, he wrote:

"Common is, unfortunately, the weak link in the cast. He’s always a particular kind of actor: instantly striking as a presence, generally convincing physically and a strange cipher emotionally — completely at odds with the passion that infuses his music and unscripted persona. His performance here is a great leather jacket — unexplained, since nobody else in the Silo seems to go to the same tailor — and a perpetual smirk. Opposite Robbins’ soft-spoken, pragmatically insinuating nuance and Ferguson’s fiery and perpetual irritation, Common’s lack of inflection leaves the show with a conflict deficit."

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/silo-review-rebecca-ferguson-apple-tv-1235479924/