While they are thought-provoking, and poignant, they are tinged with an element of anger that seems to permeate throughout the whole novel. Neuvel drops nuggets of wisdom throughout the novel, the kind you expect to find in speeches and monologues, drawing parallels to the injustices we see around the world in the past couple of years. Neuvel’s representation is a rather dire one, presenting a cautionary tale of using yet another disaster as a global excuse to create divisions between people. How would they react after an alien attack? Time and time again, science fiction disaster films will detail the action and violence that erupts, but what is lacking is how the world changes post these encounters. However, what I found most riveting about this novel was Neuvel’s projection of the human race. Learning about their beliefs and way of life brought an understanding of their motives that had been lacking in the previous two novels. However, it also included a new feature of retrospectively flipping between two locations, Earth and the alien planet.Īfter two books, my list of questions was getting absurdly long, so it was incredibly cathartic to read more about the aliens themselves. The story picks up ten years later, the format following that of the previous two, telling the tale through interviews and journal recordings of the characters experiences. Which of course meant that I was scrambling to pick up the next book. The second in the series left us with one of the most epic cliffhangers I have ever read: our protagonists find themselves stranded on an alien planet. Reviews of the first two books in the series, Sleeping Giants and Waking Gods can be found on the blog as well. To recap, the story follows the discovery of a giant robot, which is subsequently named Themis, and its relation to an alien race whose presence on earth is proven by the existence of the robot. Only Humanis the end of the road for the Themis Files, the science fiction trilogy, that I discovered this year. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to this world! After some pondering, I realised why that was. However, the full review just never seemed to want to get written. I have been meaning to get to this book review for weeks now, having finished the book in September, and even featuring it in my September Reads. That’s what I did.”Īuthor: Sylvain Neuvel ⭐⭐⭐.5 Publisher: Penguin
But in real life, Vincent, we just call the cops.
Every movie we watch, every book we read, we see people who can solve every problem, face every danger all on their own.
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