We are all fascinated and awestruck by what we do not understand, and by our own crass human nature we immediately lose any interest in something we completely understand. That is the magic of the story is in and of itself: mystery. Personally, I need a book that doesn’t quite answer everything. Granted, the majority of the novel is in an interview format, which certainly makes the book a bit of a quicker read nonetheless, it was an engaging book that gave you just enough storyline without divulging its complete truth. In my opinion, it is a very entertaining story, and I flew through 300 pages. I have to just start out this review plain and simple: I loved Sleeping Giants. As Franklin and her team erect the colossal statue, its true function as a war machine becomes abundantly clear, and so does the fact that its origins are undeniably from another species.

An unnamed man begins to develop an elite covert research facility comprised of Franklin, Kara Resnik (military pilot), Ryan Mitchell (co-pilot to Resnik), Victor Couture (linguist), and Alyssa Papadatou (geneticist). Sleeping Giants follows Doctor Rose Franklin, a gifted physicist working at the University of Chicago, who, after falling down a perfectly square hole onto the metal hand as a child, is now tasked with the responsibility of discovering the origin, composition, and function of the hand.Īs more and more giant metal appendages are unearthed, Franklin begins to discover that this would-be statue is less than ceremonial. And so begins Sylvain’s Neuvel’s debut novel Sleeping Giants. Sylvain Neuvel’s Debut Novel, Sleeping Giants, Deftly Avoids Becoming a Sci-fi ClicheĪ dissociated birthday party, a new bike, and a 23-foot-long metal hand.

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