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A review by amandadee
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
5.0
**I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review**
I'm going to skip the recap and go straight for the review here. I very much enjoyed this book! I can see why it's been compared to the Martian as there is a good deal of geeked out science in it. I will have to assume the World War Z similarities are there since I have not yet read the book, only seen the movie.
The entire book is written in a series of interviews, a few journal entries and a news story or two. And I found it quite brilliant. The story unfolded with these interviews at a page turning pace, jumping from one perspective to another flawlessly. Even in this interview format the core characters were well developed and their relationships with each other, and the way their personalities challenged each other, really came through. I found myself intrigued by the mysterious interviewer. Who is he? Who does he report to? Just how many strings is he puppeting? This book has everything from science, to politics, mythology, aliens and conspiracies. It unravels something bigger than what anyone imagined going in to it and opens up so many new questions along the way. And the ending? I was fully expecting the cliffhanger we're left with. I don't even mind that I thought it predictable; I would have been more upset had it not happened.
I'm going to skip the recap and go straight for the review here. I very much enjoyed this book! I can see why it's been compared to the Martian as there is a good deal of geeked out science in it. I will have to assume the World War Z similarities are there since I have not yet read the book, only seen the movie.
The entire book is written in a series of interviews, a few journal entries and a news story or two. And I found it quite brilliant. The story unfolded with these interviews at a page turning pace, jumping from one perspective to another flawlessly. Even in this interview format the core characters were well developed and their relationships with each other, and the way their personalities challenged each other, really came through. I found myself intrigued by the mysterious interviewer. Who is he? Who does he report to? Just how many strings is he puppeting? This book has everything from science, to politics, mythology, aliens and conspiracies. It unravels something bigger than what anyone imagined going in to it and opens up so many new questions along the way. And the ending? I was fully expecting the cliffhanger we're left with. I don't even mind that I thought it predictable; I would have been more upset had it not happened.