Sleeping Giants

I really enjoyed this (wow a book Hailey actually liked from 2020 amazing)!

I found the story to be incredibly intriguing and I absolutely adored the formatting for this book. I am a sucker for unique modes of storytelling and this use of interviews certainly gave me that sense of uniqueness. I was a little wary going into it that interviews would not give enough depth to the novel and leave out pivotal information. This was not at all the case and I was really pleased with how well it worked.

One flaw of the formatting is that you don't know as much about the characters. Which, in a way, I found refreshing. There was no info dump about their lives, appearance, and silly-but-just-you-wait-it-will-one-day-be-relevant childhood stories. You simply received the information you needed at that time. And while it took me a little bit to get used to, I found myself really enjoying it by the end of the book.

The only reason I can't give this 5 stars is because of the movement of the plot itself. I kept trying to think of what was bothering me about this book for the past day and I've finally realized it is this– there is not a strong central plot to this book. Yes, we have our robot and we are trying to figure out how it functions. Great. But that never reached a true resolution in this book. What we did have were mini-plots that had great exposition, great action, and great resolution. I even gasped a few times aloud because of what was going on. I just felt that this needed to be a wee bit more cohesive overall.

I'm emo the bookstores are closed because I want to get the sequel and these books are just too darn pretty. I will 100% be purchasing the sequel's hardcover as soon as I am allowed to step inside a bookstore again.