by Sylvain Neuvel
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...
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? ...
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...
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