This was a fast, breezy read, the story of the discovery of a giant robot, millennia old, and the consequences of that discovery. It's told interview-style: most chapters are recordings of conversations between an unknown person and one of the characters, with a few chapters being newspaper reports, radio transcripts, and the like. The book suffers a little during the action set-pieces at the end -- the structure doesn't really allow for much of an "action scene" as such, but the author did what he could.

I enjoyed this. The characters all felt real to me, well-drawn, each with their own quirks and foibles. It's part 1 of a series, so it ends with the inevitable "let's set something up for book 2", but even that was OK by me.

I've seen it compared to The Martian, which was another breezy, fast SF read with no small amount of wit. I'd say it's pretty accurate to compare the storytelling, but certainly the stories are very different.

Enjoy!