Match BookSleeping Giants
Sylvain Neuvel
2016 · 320 pages · Science fiction
How it reads
Sleeping Giants is science fiction (first-contact science fiction, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in several locations, in the present day, told through letters, documents or mixed forms. Its central concerns are secrets, survival and power and politics. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 320 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something tense
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you're drawn to stories about secrets
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy or heartwarming
- you want dense, lingering prose
- you hate waiting for a sequel
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- science fiction
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- early career
- Setting: place
- multiple locations
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- tense
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- letters, documents or mixed forms
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- well known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- secrets, survival, power and politics
- Ending style
- cliffhanger
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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