![]() ![]() That’s what I wanted to show with Only Human: how we’d react to something this big, where it would take us as a species. Waking Gods is the second amazing book in Themis Files series. As an adult, she’s dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery. ![]() It’s been 16 years since 9/11 and we’re still feeling it, perhaps more so than we did 10 years ago. As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. Play Book Tag: Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel 3.5 stars rounded up: 1 7: 09:25AM YA Buddy Readers'. Perhaps most importantly, the events of Waking Gods are traumatic, to say the least, and that kind of trauma has long-term effects. It might even be a multi-generational endeavor. Making first contact with an alien civilization, at least to me, also felt like something that wouldn’t happen over a weekend. I didn’t want horrible things to happen every time they step outside the house. In the gripping sequel to Sleeping Giants, Sylvain Neuvel’s innovative series about human-alien contact takes another giant step forward. First, I wanted the Themis Files to feel real - as real as a giant robot story can, anyway - and that meant my characters had to have some kind of ordinary existence beyond the events of the books. There are a couple reasons for the jumps. There’s a nine-year gap between the end of Waking Gods and the beginning of Only Human - the same amount of time that went by between the first and second books. ![]()
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