First Impression Friday | Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

Welcome to another First Impression Friday. In case this is your first time, here’s the rundown:

• Based on this sampling of your current read, give a few impressions
and predict what you’ll think by the end.
• Did you think you’d love and ended up hating it? Or did you think
you’d hate it and wound up loving it? Or were you exactly right?
• Link back to Storeys of Stories so I can enjoy reading all the
First Impression Fridays out there!

This week’s pick is one that has been recommended to me for a long time. Not even recommended. More like shocked declarations of, “You haven’t read the Themis Files? What’s your problem?”

Let’s talk about Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel.

“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.

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?“

Honestly, I didn’t know much going into this book other than the fact that a bunch of people thought I should have already read it. So I didn’t know what to expect. I’m barely a few chapters in and was delighted to find a story told in the style of World War Z or Robopocalypse.

For those in the dark about the style of any of these titles, it’s told through a series of interviews instead of the traditional narration. I don’t prefer this method of story telling over the norm, but once in a while to shake things up is great!

Can’t wait to read more!

My Prediction: 4 stars.

Fun fact about this post: I’m listening to the audiobook, which has a full cast! The World War Z audiobook also has a full cast and stars none other than Mark Hamill as one of the characters!