Date Of Review: October 22, 2024
Review Left On GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6897521465

Sleeping Giants

Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Narrator: Andy Secombe, Eric Meyeres, Laurel Lefkow, Charlie Anson, Liza Ross, William Hope, Christopher Ragland, Katharine Mangold, Adna Sablyic
Started: October 16, 2024
Finished: October 17, 2024
Genre: Science Fiction
Length: 8 hours, 29 minutes
Part Of A Series: Yes #1 of 3
Type Of Book: audio
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25733990-sleeping-giants

Review:

I really enjoyed this book. At first I thought it would just be a book to read, no real interest in it, but not a DNF. Turns out I ended up loving it. I have the need to read the rest of the series and have the next one on hold at my library.

Rose was probably my favorite character. She wasn't a scientist in the way they are normally portrayed - rude, snobby know-it-alls. Rose wasn't any of that at all despite the fact she probably could have been.

The narrator is my next favorite character. They where just so there, yet not. Just enough mystery & intrigue to keep wanting to know just who they are. Are they human? Are they a descendant trying to figure it all out? Who knows? But I want to.

I also appreciate that there wasn't much romance at all. Just enough peppered through out to let you get the gist of what is going on in that relationship (love triangle?).

Goodreads Description:

A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.

Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved - the object's origins, architects, and purpose unknown.

But some can never stop searching for answers.

Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the relic they seek. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unravelling history's most perplexing discovery-and finally figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?

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