A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.
Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved—its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. Its carbon dating defies belief; military reports are redacted; theories are floated, then rejected.
But some can never stop searching for answers.
Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top secret team to crack the hand’s code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of the relic. What’s clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history’s most perplexing discovery—and figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?
Review:
Well it took me quite long to put all my notes together and finally write a review of this book.
First of all I want to say that it has been quite a while from the last time I have red a sci-fi book.
This is the first volume of a Trylogy :The Themis Files
It was summer 2019 when an artist that I follow recommended this book, that he was reading too. So, I went on a hunt around the web stores and several pages to see if it has came for me finally the time to go back to sci-fi after years dedicated mostly to fantasy and vampires books. Well it was. And immediately after red 20 pages I decided to follow also the writer, because he has waken up my love for the sci-fi again.
I like a lot how he has planned the book. We see the story told by the characters involved and this is something I haven't seen in a while and is a big plus for my new journey into the sci-fi, and the one who is pulling the strings is a mysterious character which we really don't know from where and who he is.
The reader is entering into the story through every character prospective in the format of interviews. For some, this choice could feel like there are not so much emotions involved but there are and it makes you really wants to know what is happening next and know better also who is involved in the story.
The profile of each character is well built through those interviews and throughout the story, and is easy to understand their strengths, their flaws and their weaknesses.
The character that really I find interesting, like I wrote before, is the interviewer, so I will read for sure the next volumes to understand him better.
I have found the reading really enjoyable and I will read more about Sylvain Neuvel, because I really like his style.
And what a tricky thing is the final? I went to buy the second volume right away. This is the right way to make the reader interest and the curiosity of what comes next high.
So Welcome into my personal Library Sylvain Neuvel! Always nice to find new writers to add. It gives hope to a world that is slowly forgetting how beautiful is to read a well written book!
