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4.5 Stars
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel is a really fun science fiction adventure about discovery, aliens, Conspiracies, and big brother. I loved this book. It is like an episode of or a movie of The X-Files. This book is also a character driven novel which makes it work. Clearly this is a setup book as the ending is the weakest part of the book.
I enjoyed the writing, the story, the characters, and the future of the series...
Good read.
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel is a really fun science fiction adventure about discovery, aliens, Conspiracies, and big brother. I loved this book. It is like an episode of or a movie of The X-Files. This book is also a character driven novel which makes it work. Clearly this is a setup book as the ending is the weakest part of the book.
I enjoyed the writing, the story, the characters, and the future of the series...
Good read.
A very solid 4 star read.
I really did not know very much about this book except for what one learns in the blurb.
So it turns out SLEEPING GIANTS is about the discovery of a giant metallic hand (which unsurprisingly leads to the discovery of a giant robot).
The key conceit of the book is that the story is told exclusively in third person documents: transcripts of interviews between the main characters, news reports and other non-prose texts.
It's actually quite surprising how well this works. I hav ...more
I really did not know very much about this book except for what one learns in the blurb.
So it turns out SLEEPING GIANTS is about the discovery of a giant metallic hand (which unsurprisingly leads to the discovery of a giant robot).
The key conceit of the book is that the story is told exclusively in third person documents: transcripts of interviews between the main characters, news reports and other non-prose texts.
It's actually quite surprising how well this works. I hav ...more
It pains me to put down this novel, as the synopsis and opening has incredible promise. However, I just simply don't have the drive to continue due to numerous issues, and I will tell you why.
Where Sleeping Giants struggles is in two things - characterization and infodumps. Each interview didn't feel like an interview - it felt like a exposition, like I'm being talked at rather than with. The flow of conversation was unrealistic, and the characters themselves are flat, with little to distingui ...more
Where Sleeping Giants struggles is in two things - characterization and infodumps. Each interview didn't feel like an interview - it felt like a exposition, like I'm being talked at rather than with. The flow of conversation was unrealistic, and the characters themselves are flat, with little to distingui ...more
Dec 19, 2015
Bernadette
marked it as finish-later
Shelves:
scifi-dystopian-post-apocalyptic,
scifi-robots
Dec 29, 2015
Anatha
marked it as to-read
4.5
Apr 18, 2016
Michael
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May 11, 2016
Roshio
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Jun 28, 2016
Dusty
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Aug 25, 2016
DivaDiane SM
marked it as to-read
Apr 30, 2018
Michael
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May 01, 2018
Linsy
marked it as to-read
