"Sleeping Giants" got a lot of press when it came out. It was proclaimed as original and engaging Science Fiction and so I immediately downloaded a copy of the audiobook. It then sat in my TBR pile until I realised the sequel has been published and I still hadn't read the first book.I bumped it to t...
By chance, I saw that the second book in The Themis Files series by Sylvain Neuvel had hit the shelves. You may recall that I posted a review of the first book, Sleeping Giants, not quite a year ago and I really enjoyed it. It's a unique story that blends aliens and robots *shudder* with a heaping d...
As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. As an adult, she's dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? ...
This is a difficult publication to review...obviously it's not my typical fiction read but I wanted to include it on my blog all the same because it's a wonderful little reference for readers out there, one that I've grown very fond of and slightly dependent upon. I received this little gem courtesy...
If you were anything like me post-Sleeping Giants and felt like "eh, that was alright. Like, it was a decent enough story, though nothing was quite gripping enough to throw me along, mostly it was written in a format that was easy to digest and didn't ask too much of me." If you ended it not knowing...
A fun story written as the first book in a series. We were introduced to a cast of characters and events that moved forward to a certain point and stopped, leaving the balance of the story to be told in future editions in the series. I did enjoy that the majority of the story was told a series of in...
Around the Year Reading Challenge Item #26: A Book Everyone is Talking AboutI usually don't explicitly review audiobook performances even though I listen to tons of audiobooks -- if something stands out, I'll mention it, but I focus my reviews on the things I would have noticed regardless of the med...
"It dares us to question everything we know about ourselves...about everything" 'Sleeping Giants' gave off the feeling of 'The Iron Giant' meets 'Pacific Rim' with a little bit of political and historical context into what may actually happen, were the world to discover that there were, in fact, ...
It was Rose’s eleventh birthday and she had gotten a new bike but she had to wait until her party was over to try it out. As soon as everyone left Rose was off on her bike before it got dark and she had to be home for the night. Rose was not like most eleven year old girls as she had problems making...
[I received a copy of this book through NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.]This novel follows a close-knit team of scientists and military personnel gathered in the search for body parts: giant body parts, from a satue whose pieces were scattered throughout the world. What is that statue? ...
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