REVIEW: Sleeping Giants (#1) - Sylvain Neuvel

Title: Sleeping Giants (#1)
Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Series: The THEMIS Files
Publisher: Penguin Books LTD
Format: Audiobook
Time: 8Hrs 27Mins
Narrators:  Andy Secombe, Christopher Ragland, Charlie Anson, Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers, Liza Ross
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

Goodreads Blurb

Deadwood, USA. A girl sneaks out just before dark to ride her new bike. Suddenly the ground disappears beneath her. Waking up at the bottom of a deep pit, she sees an emergency rescue team above her. The people looking down see something far stranger...

We always look forward. We never look back.

That girl grows up to be Dr Rose Franklin, a brilliant scientist and the leading world expert on what she discovered. An enormous, ornate handmade of an exceptionally rare metal which predates all human civilisation on the continent.

But this thing...it's different. It challenges us. It rewrites history.

An object whose origins and purpose are perhaps the greatest mystery humanity has ever faced. Solving the secret of where it came from - and how many more parts may be out there - could change life as we know it.

It dares us to question what we know about ourselves.

But what if we were meant to find it? And what happens when this vast, global puzzle is complete...

About everything.

Thoughts

The story is told via reports and transcriptions, regarding the discovery of metal like limbs, of a massive scale. We follow Dr Rose Franklin who finds one of these limbs when she is a child by falling into a sinkhole.

I really enjoyed the layout of the story with it being transcriptions or reports regarding the discovery of the metal like being. I also found the story easy to follow.

I really enjoyed the multiple narrators and found that they brought a bit more to the story and gave it a bit of depth. I found myself really liking the narrator who played the man in charge, he added quite a bit to the character and you could just tell that this was a character that likes to keep a lot of things up his sleeve.

I really enjoyed the story and loved the backstory, and thought how well it tied into the known history of past civilisations and weaving this metal structure into it.

Overall I really enjoyed this book and loved the narration, and I think for the rest of the series if the audiobook has the same cast that I may follow on with the audiobooks.