3.5 stars. To be completely honest, I’m not sure I would have kept reading this if I wasn’t listening to it on audiobook on loan from my library. It didn’t suit my mood, which like many Americans (and let’s be real, world citizens) at the moment, is dark, dark depression. I powered through Sleeping Giants at 1.6x speed and unlike most times I think of giving up on a book and then don’t, I didn’t regret it. Sleeping Giants begins with a flashback as a […]
I want this rewritten as a regular novel!
I wasn’t entirely certain whether or not I liked this book as I was reading it, until I got to the end and realized I really wanted to read the sequel. So I guess that’s a fairly positive recommendation. My main issue was with the style in which is was told. “Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they’ve been told was true. Scientists are no different; they’ve just been told a lot more things.” 17 years ago, Rose Franklin falls into a hole […]
Oceans rise, empires fall, it’s much harder when it’s all your call
It took me a bit to get into this one but, by the time I was about three quarters of the way through, I was pretty desperate to finish it. Granted, that is a long way to go to get to the good stuff, but I’m not sure I can blame the book because I recently fell into a BOOK RUT big time and so my reading experience suffered. (I blame the book rut entirely on Penny Reid because I kept reading her Knitting in […]
Terrible half-baked review of a really good book.
I think I’ve really done this book an injustice by waiting so long to review it. (Thanks a lot, Mansfield Park!) I remember being ridiculously entertained by it, and reading it at a pretty fast pace, even for me. But I’ve forgotten most of why I found it so entertaining in the two and a half months since finishing it. This is one of those sci-fi books just waiting to break into the mainstream, because it’s written in a way that will appeal to people who […]