Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1) in Pick-a-Shelf

Mar 20, 2019 Cora rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, kindle, science-fiction, robots, aliens, first-contact, debut

In Sleeping Giants, large pieces of what appear to be a giant robot are being discovered all over the world. The pieces seem to be thousands of years old, a time when no known human civilization would have the technology need to build them. The story is told through a series of interviews and reports by the people working to find all the pieces and find the answers to what the robot is, where it came from, and what is its purpose. I enjoyed this book alot. I was impressed at how successful the a ...more

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Jul 04, 2018 Nicole rated it liked it

Shelves: audio-book, 2018

This book is told in a series of interview and "case files," which I imagine would be pretty dry to actually read. However, the audio version brings a lot to the characters' personalities with a cast of narrators.
The premise is that giant parts of a machine are uncovered around the world and from to develop a robot full of mysteries. It was interesting, but I can't say I loved it. I'm annoyed at the way the book left off, creating new questions, conceivably to prompt you to the next in the seri ...more

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Mar 18, 2019 emily rated it really liked it

Shelves: to-purchase, why-is-this-not-a-movie-yet, audiobook, 2019, sci-fi-aliens-first-contact

i love stories in epistolary format, and listening to this on audio rather than reading was totally the right way to go. my thoughts mostly take the form of "critique, but, compliment" : i still stand by my assessment that this was heavily inspired by pacific rim, but in the end that didn't turn out to be a bad thing. there's definitely a few moments that make it clear that it was written by a straight dude, but overall it was good to its women characters. no queers, but thankfully romance isn't ...more

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