I had nothing to fear because it more than lived up to it. I was surprised by how much I loved Sleeping Giants and I was unsure if Waking Gods would live up to his predecessor. So when another giant robot lands in the middle of London, it makes sense that Themis should be dispatched to try and treat with it.īut it seems like this alien life force is not so pleased to see Themis and what happens next could be the end of mankind. Quote: ‘ believing you’re the only one person with their head on straight is usually not a sign of good mental health.’įollowing the events of Sleeping Giants the robot/alien named Themis has been reassembled and her pilots, Kara and Vincent are now parading her around showing her off as some sort of Earth Defence project. Thank you to Netgalley, Sylvain Neuvel and Penguin Michael Joseph for my ARC of Waking Gods. Book 3, Only Human, ships in May, and I am still excited to read it, so I hope you’ll check it out.I only just began reading this series a few days ago, I had them on my tbr for a little while and then I got the chance to receive an arc of Waking Gods so I bought Sleeping Giants to read that first. But even with that, it’s not remotely enough to turn me off the series. It’s just that the plot twists were weirder and less believable this time around, and I had a problem with the aliens at the end that left a sour taste in my mouth. I don’t really want to give away the ending because I still think this is a very good book and worth reading, especially after reading the first one. However, where Sleeping Giants resolves these plot threads so brilliantly at the end that I took back all of my criticisms of the book, the final resolution of Waking Gods, while equally complete, feels uncomfortable and unsatisfying to me. This isn’t as big a criticism as it sounds because both books were very entertaining. I had the same problem with Waking Gods as I did with Sleeping Giants: namely, that I disagreed with the direction Mr.

If you read Sleeping Giants, though, I would definitely recommend it.

Now, in Waking Gods, the aliens have noticed Themis, and everything just got much, much worse.Īll in all, this is a pretty good book, though not as good as the first installment. Predictably, the governments of the world and one shadowy conspiracy-type person cause a lot of trouble trying to use Themis to their own ends. In Sleeping Giants, a giant alien robot, Themis, is discovered buried in pieces all over the world. Waking Gods is the sequel to Sylvain Neuvel’s debut novel, Sleeping Giants, which I reviewed previously.

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