![]() ![]() Sleeping Giants was told through interview transcripts and journal entries. ![]() The stakes are higher this time, for everyone. Waking Gods is darker than the first book, faster. ![]() We open with another giant robot materializing in the middle of London. Rose is still struggling with what happened to her, and for Vincent and Kara, it’s mostly parades and photo ops, as the interviewer suggested. There are Themis action figures, t-shirts. Themis has become a part of everyday life. Waking Gods takes place nine years after the events of Sleeping Giants. To begin, what is Waking Gods about, and how does it connect both chronologically and narratively to the previous book in The Themis Files, Sleeping Giants? Though in talking to him about the new book, and this series, it seems like he’s more concerned with baby cats and plastic toys. Now he’s continuing the story, and the format, with Waking Gods ( hardcover, digital, audiobook), the second book in what he calls The Themis Files. In his novel Sleeping Giants, writer Sylvain Neuvel told his giant robot sci-fi story through a series of interviews and journals, which made for a quick and fun read. ![]()
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