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. Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top secret team to crack the hand’s code. Its carbon dating defies belief military reports are redacted theories are floated, then rejected.īut some can never stop searching for answers. Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved-its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. 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 hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings.

Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery-and a fight to control a gargantuan power.Ī girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. My only complaint is that I have to wait for April 2017 for the second book in the series. It’s sometimes silly but in an awesome, pulp sci-fi way. This book is tremendously fun and a really fast read. 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. The interviewer is a mysterious and untrustworthy narrator who I pictured as being played by James Spader. Both the lead scientist and head military operator are women which FUCK YEAH LADIES IN SCI FI! 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. Then more robot parts are found…an arm, a leg…a torso containing a hatch as if for a pilot… The writing is completely different from anything ever seen before. The metal is carbon dated and is revealed to be 3000 years older than the oldest human civilization.

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.

I don’t want to reveal too much of the plot because it’s revealed layer by mysterious layer. 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. 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. 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.

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