Waking Gods
In the gripping sequel to Sleeping Giants, which was hailed by Pierce Brown as “a luminous conspiracy yarn . . . reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z,” Sylvain Neuvel’s innovative series about human-alien contact takes another giant step forward.As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing...
show more
In the gripping sequel to Sleeping Giants, which was hailed by Pierce Brown as “a luminous conspiracy yarn . . . reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z,” Sylvain Neuvel’s innovative series about human-alien contact takes another giant step forward.As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. As an adult,
show less
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781101886724 (1101886722)
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Series: Themis Files (#2)
I feel like I need to start this review by saying sci-fi is not my genre of choice. The vast majority of what I read is historical fiction with the occasional fantasy novel thrown in for something different. I read the first novel, Sleeping Giants, last August. For anyone interested in this serie...
My review can also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.I had so much fun reading this book! I recently listened to the first book in this series so I was pretty eager to fit this book into my reading schedule. It turned out to be one of those books that are almost impossible to put down. Every...
Well written, but it should absolutely be read only after the first volume. I didn't do so, and I paid the price.
Like its predecessor, Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods is marked by an interesting style, where debriefings, news reports, and journal entries are pieced together to tell the story. The second book of the Themis Files has a markedly different tone than the first: while Sleeping Giants was somewhat conte...
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...
Log in with Facebook 
