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Sleeping Giants

Themis Files, Book 1

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Sleeping Giants

By: Sylvain Neuvel
Narrated by: Andy Secombe, Christopher Ragland, Charlie Anson, Laurel Lefkow, Eric Meyers, Liza Ross
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About this listen

Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel. Read by William Hope, Christopher Ragland, Andy Secombe, Charlie Anson, Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow, Liza Ross, William Hope, Adna Sablyich and Katharine Mangold.

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 hand made 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.

©2016 Sylvain Neuvel (P)2016 Penguin Audio
Adventure Fantasy Fiction First Contact Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction Space Exploration Superhero Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Time Travel Interstellar Paranormal Exciting

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Editor reviews

"Reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z, this is a luminous conspiracy yarn that shoots for (and lands among) the stars." (Pierce Brown, author of Red Rising)
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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Yes; to a point. The initial plot was intriguing and the narrative structure (interviews with participants) well used, but the plot got a lot weaker from about half way and I could have stopped listening then.

What was your reaction to the ending? (No spoilers please!)

Dull. In fact there wasn't an ending as such.

What three words best describe the narrators’s voice?

Clear, good accents.

If this book were a film would you go see it?

No.

Starts well but loses its way

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One of the few books I've listened to with multiple narrators. They enhanced the whole story (which is already great), with their performances. The book itself has a fairly standard plot line, but the way it is put together is very clever. Looking forward to the sequel.

Brilliant.

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I absolutely loved this audio book, I got through it in 3 days.
I really enjoyed the direction of the story. The narrators were good too, the humour in the book really came through with the characters

Brilliant

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great story, very well narrated, except for a poor stuttering performance of one character. it's only a small part and doesn't ruin the overall performance. looking forward to listening to the next one, I hope it's as good as the first.

Brilliant from start to finish!

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Written as a series of diary recording playbacks. Fantastic story, very believable. Amazing cast, main character is superb! On two the next one immediately. Cannot recommend his enough, kept me coming back for more!! :)

Awesome!!!

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