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Published by Del Rey Books.

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978-1-101-88669-4
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4 stars (92 reviews)

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square 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—its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. Its carbon dating defies belief; military reports are redacted; theories are floated, then rejected.

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 provenance of the relic. What’s clear is that Rose …

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The results from a single, intriguing incident

4 stars

This is like an epistolary novel but instead of letters it's told in interviews and phone calls. I was able to get used to it enough to enjoy the story. The book has what it needs for a global-scale intrigue, some action, some politics, a bunch of tech.

I was looking for another series to start, and this one will do.

Review of 'Sleeping Giants' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Interesting! I feel like everything about this book was.. good. The story is fine, nothing incredibly unique or interesting, but good enough to hold my attention. The characters are fine, though I don't think they are written in a way that is distinct enough from one another. More specifically, the book is about 90% interview format with each character responding to the same person. The characters are distinct in their actions, but not so much in their dialogue. The format is unique, but it took some getting used to. This hardly feels like the first installment of a trilogy, rather it is just the first third of a larger book. I don't have any strong opinions on that, but I think I would have rather it had more of a stand-alone story. It left me intrigued enough that I'll likely pick up the next two.

Review of 'Sleeping Giants' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

The report/interview style writing in this worked quite well for the topic and I enjoyed it a lot. Some details had to be extrapolated from half-sentences or unsaid words, but that just made the whole reading more interesting.

I strangely liked the interviewer a lot, although I’m still not entirely sure he’s even human. In the beginning, I had a very strong feeling he’s actually a computer. Might still be one, just one passing the Turing Test with flying colours.

Review of 'Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Sleeping Giants is told through Interview Transcripts. It was an interesting read, and I did like how the story unfolded through interviews with a mysterious unnamed person. However, I felt that for me, this format didn't really let me get to know the characters as well as I might have if the story was told through a normal narrative. It also seemed a bit rushed towards the end where a lot of things were revealed in just a few interviews.

Review of 'Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

There are two ways to look at the quality of this book: standing on its own and as part of a larger whole. Far beyond whether you enjoy the books that the publishers liken it to – World War Z, the Martian, etc. – I think that the perspective you choose will ultimately decide whether you enjoy Sleeping Giants or not.

On its own, Sleeping Giants is a 3 or 3.5 star book. It's premise is fascinating, but the surface is barely scratched. Its interview-style format is engaging, but doesn't quite carry the backward-facing, "what was it all for?" gravitas and confusion that World War Z employed so beautifully (while using the same style). It's dialogue and characters are interesting and feel real (for the most part), but they don't carry the blend of intelligence, wit, and sarcasm that made The Martian's Mark Watney so appealing. Viewed in this light, …

Review of 'Sleeping Giants' on 'Goodreads'

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 …

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