![]() ![]() (I say perhaps for reasons that I hesitate to name. ![]() Perhaps the man with no name, who speaks in bolded text, counts. No omniscient or even limited voice really steps in. Telling a story without more traditional narration is not easy. Overall, Waking Gods gets a 5 /5 stars, based on its killer giant alien robot action, its excellent characterization, and its generally-good use of its format. It’s set entirely in dialogue, from interviews to oral mission reports to remarks made at certain places which we shall not name to news reports. However, those complexities revolve around the robots themselves and people’s relationship to said robots.īefore we get any further, it seems important to talk about the format of this novel. Oh, there are more complex pieces of the story. Waking Gods (and the first book in this series, Sleeping Giants, which I will attempt most strenuously not to spoil) fills that niche pretty well, especially considering the fact that there are humans who can pilot said alien robots. Sometimes, what you need in your life is a story about alien robots. By Cheryl Wassenaar 6 years ago Sylvain Neuvel’s Waking Gods builds well on the excellent first novel, Sleeping Giants, though it feels slightly more constrained by the format. ![]()
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