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Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

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Sleeping Giants

by Sylvain Neuvel

Normally Sleeping Giants isn’t the type of book I’d review for Smart Bitches, but it contains some awesome female characters AND a giant female (well, we think–it’s got boobs) Amazonian warrior robot. There’s also a teensy bit of romance.

I loved this book. My husband and I read it at the same time and it lead to many Bad Decisions Book Club moments, like “just one more chapter” at 2:30 a.m. I kept thinking about the book when I wasn’t reading it, and I would stare at the clock at work because I just wanted to read my giant robot warrior book, goddamnit.

I don’t want to reveal too much of the plot because it’s revealed layer by mysterious layer. Here’s the gist though: a large metal hand is uncovered buried in South Dakota (large enough for a person to sit in) along with tablets containing some kind of writing. The metal is carbon dated and is revealed to be 3000 years older than the oldest human civilization. The writing is completely different from anything ever seen before. Then more robot parts are found…an arm, a leg…a torso containing a hatch as if for a pilot…

The book isn’t written in a traditional narrative style, but instead is a series of interviews with the personnel (scientific and military) assigned to figure out what the robot is, where it came from, and what it does. Both the lead scientist and head military operator are women which FUCK YEAH LADIES IN SCI FI!

The interviewer is a mysterious and untrustworthy narrator who I pictured as being played by James Spader. He doesn’t have a name, but he is powerful and his single ambition is getting this robot understood even if it costs human lives.

This book is tremendously fun and a really fast read. It’s sometimes silly but in an awesome, pulp sci-fi way. My only complaint is that I have to wait for April 2017 for the second book in the series.

Elyse

Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power.
 
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square 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.

Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved—its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. Its carbon dating defies belief; military reports are redacted; theories are floated, then rejected.

But some can never stop searching for answers.

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 provenance of the relic. What’s clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history’s most perplexing discovery—and figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?

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