Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)

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Hardcover, 320 pages

English language

Published April 26, 2016 by Del Rey.

ISBN:
978-1-101-88669-4
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4 stars (8 reviews)

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.

Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown.

But some can never stop searching for answers.

Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the relic they seek. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unravelling history's most perplexing discovery-and finally …

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reviewed Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel (Themis Files, #1)

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4 stars

Sleeping Giants starts when a giant hand is found. The material from which it is crafted is unknown, but it is known that it must be thousands years old. The hand turns out to be part of something a lot bigger than any one expected.

Sleeping Giants is (mostly) written in interview style. One person interviews the main actors and that's how you piece together the story. I'm not really a fan of this, but the technique worked. I rushed through the pages, wondering what would happen next.

I greatly preferred the mystery of the hand in the first section of the book over the worldwide politics in the latter section, but overall this is a great story and should probably be read by and SF fan.

reviewed Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel (Themis Files, #1)

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4 stars

I read this book in two or three stints putting it down numerous times for easier to read books, however every so often circling back round to investigate it further.

The writing style is a series of interviews or phone calls with different people. The person who is interviewing or being phoned is... a strange almost unlikable character, who has a bit deus ex about them. This can make it feel like it's going to be a predictable story, I promise you that it is not.

The rest of the host of characters are likeable and well created, they have their flaws, and their development, and I certainly grew to care a lot about them.

This isn't really an action book, it's sort of a book of curiosity. The curiosity about finding out more is what drives you on. For me this is a 4* book because I couldn't do …

reviewed Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) by Sylvain Neuvel (Themis Files, #1)

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5 stars

Really pleased with this read. It is an excellently paced, written, and thought out book. The structure is a little jarring at first, but when you are used to it, it's not so bad. Additionally, I have to recommend the audiobook wholeheartedly for this one. Each character has a different narrator, and is a fantastic listen... sucks you even deeper in than reading the written story alone.

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