The characters are pretty much the core of the book they build up the story and are equally important to the plot. They’re extremely well-developed, so, so humane and realistic and flawed, but so lovable. If you like aliens, space, genetics, if you’re even slightly inclined towards these topics, you might just end up loving this series. In fact, I was surprised by how much I liked the scientific elements of the book.

There’s no overbearing science in the book (thankfully) and it’s all fairly easy to follow. Even for a person who doesn’t read a lot of sci-fi, it was a gripping story and there were some parts in the series where I literally couldn’t stop reading. The story is very, very interesting to follow. My favorite in the series was the second book I really enjoyed the first book also though the last book was a bit of a letdown. In spite of the ups and downs the entire series has, I quite enjoyed it! Like I said, I’m not much of a sci-fi reader, and decided to give the first book a try – and luckily, it turned out to be a good one. A group of qualified people set upon this mystery of the giant body and end up discovering something big. Franklin, who discovers a giant metal body part buried under Earth which leads to a further discovery of a giant metal body (probably an alien?) who has her body parts buried all over Earth. The premise follows our main character, Dr. It’s an adult science-fiction trilogy and though I don’t read much sci-fi, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this one! The books are: Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods and Only Human. I read the Themis Files series by Sylvain Neuvel over the past three months, one book each month. 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? 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. 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. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top-secret team to crack the hand’s code. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved – the object’s origins, architects, and purpose unknown.īut some can never stop searching for answers. 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.

She wakes up at the bottom of a square-shaped hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings.

Title: Themis Files (Sleeping Giants, Waking Gods, Only Humans)Ī girl named Rose is riding her new bike near home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth.

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