Showing posts with label Sylvain Neuvel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sylvain Neuvel. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Waiting on Wednesday #776, March 25th

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating!

The Many by Sylvain Neuvel
Expected Publication: April 21st, 2026
From Goodreads:
The minds of five normal people merge in a beautiful, unnerving first contact story where the strangest thing humanity has to face is each other, from the critically acclaimed author of Sleeping Giants.

“I’m you now. We all are.”

When advertising executive Carole Veilleux loses it at Booker’s donut shop and bites Booker on the arm, it’s about the most interesting thing to happen in the small city of Marquette, Michigan, in years.

But that’s only the beginning of the story. Carole and Booker find their minds merging, in a collective that extends to include Carole’s husband Shivansh and local doctor Evelyn Schlapp. The four of them become the beginning of something larger and stranger than they could ever have imagined.

The Rebel and the Final Blood War by K.A. Linde
Expected Publication: April 21st, 2026
From Goodreads:
Before The Wren in the Holly Library, there was The Rebel and the Final Blood War―the stunning conclusion to the Blood Type series finds the world in chaos and turmoil with one final battle left to determine who will survive―humans or vampires.

She had the world on her shoulders. Now she has nothing.

Reyna Carpenter was twenty-one when she became a live-in blood escort for the ruthless and brutally handsome vampire Beckham Anderson. She thought this was a small price to pay for feeding her brothers back home.

But nothing went as planned. Not even her tumultuous relationship with Beckham. And now she wonders if anything will ever be the same again.

As she finds herself in the midst of a losing rebellion, she and her trusted friends must flee from a city conquered by the vampire elite. With their plans blown to pieces and everything they knew and loved gone, their future hangs in the balance.

Despite all she has lost, Reyna must rise from the ashes, reclaim the life that was stolen―and complete her mission, once and for all.

Gods & Comics by Kat Cho
Expected Publication: April 21st, 2026
From Goodreads:
New York Times bestseller Kat Cho returns with a fresh contemporary, fantasy romance about a teen whose life is upended when the gods in her anonymous viral web comic inspired by a forgotten Korean myth come to life and the hero falls in love with her.

Seventeen-year-old junior class vice president Grace Bak has her entire future all mapped out with plans to become a doctor like her parents. But the weight of Grace’s own daunting expectations leads to debilitating panic attacks that have made her a virtual outcast at school, even to her longtime friend and crush. To make matters worse, her grandmother and only real support system has just died. Halmeoni was the glue that kept Grace’s little family together, especially after she and her dad lost her mother to cancer when Grace was too little to have many memories of her. To cope with the grief of another loss, Grace starts a webcomic inspired by the Korean myths her halmeoni used to tell her as a child.

In Sun God, Grace spins the tale of Korean god Haemosu and his love Yuhwa, but with a twist—the two gods are trapped in the bodies of teenagers and, worst of all, cursed to attend high school. Grace never expected her comic to go viral, but it has, and the new fandom has somehow conjured the real Haemosu. Now it’s up to Grace to get him back home. But when she starts to fall for Hae, sending him home is the last thing she wants to do. More troubling, Hae isn’t the only god to suddenly reappear. Hae’s sworn enemy—also brought back to the mortal realm by Grace’s comic—is set on destroying Hae, all while infecting humanity with a deadly disease.

As an epic battle between gods looms, Hae is without his powers, so it may fall to Grace to fight back against a vengeful god hell-bent on punishing anyone who gets in his way.

3 books that look really fantastic, and I'm looking forward to all of them being released! What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Friday, December 22, 2023

Book Blogger Hop #324, December 22nd

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer from Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer's permission, Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the meme on February 15, 2013. Check out the hop here

Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end on Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop's purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Question of the week is: What is your favorite 2023 book? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

I haven't made my Best Books of 2023 post yet, which is a huge undertaking, but a top read off the top of my head is ASAP by Axie Oh, the Themis Files by Sylvain Neuvel, Be the Serpent by Seanan McGuire, The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik, and the Hurog series by Patricia Briggs, they were all excellent books! 

Monday, December 18, 2023

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #654, December 18th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!
What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #653
Teaser Tuesday #661
WWW Wednesday #661
WOW #657
Will the Time Come #654
Third Sentence Thursday #644
Random Reads #630
First Lines Friday #657
Book Blogger Hop #323
21 Books to Read in 2021 Update 38
The Reward Challenge Update #639
Wheel of TBR #186
How Well I Stuck to It #491
Wrote that Review Update #488

Week 50 Reviews:
Howl for the Gargoyle


OK, so I got 75 posts in 7 days, and yeah, I pushed to get all the prompts I wanted to in the readathon, and I did, and I read a lot of great and fantastic read, so I'm happy with that! And glad to take this week slow! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read A Matter of Secrets and Spies!

How many ways can a marriage proposal go wrong?

the ring gets stolen
a storm destroys the beach
a dead body, seriously?
A THEFT RING?!

Come hell or highwater, he WILL propose before leaving this benighted island.

Saturday, December 16, 2023

Week 50 Review: No Kindness Too Soon

From Goodreads:
From the author of the "Themis Files" and the "Take Them to the Stars" series comes a new, riveting story of first contact.

What kind of message would you have sent into space?

I wouldn't have.

Why not?

Because they might hear it, and then they might come.

A mysterious radio signal is picked up from a neighboring star system. A group of experts is brought to the floor of the Grand Canyon to investigate its origin and its meaning as the planet suffers one natural disaster after another. Cut off from the rest of the world, they must question everything, including each other, if they hope to solve the mystery.

What they discover could be the difference between life as we know it—and the end of the world.

My Review:
I loved reading this book! I really found Sylvain Neuvel's books this year, and fallen in love, and this short audio was just perfect, I loved the story, and of course it's full cast audio in interview format. It was such an entertaining read!

This is another first contact story, and I didn't know how it would turn out. Because, as they discover, this signal was the replies that this one device was receiving-but the slow way round, not the instantaneous that the machine got. So they have to figure out what was being sent-to figure out what they were now receiving. Because some odd things are happening, and it seems they might be connected.

I really enjoyed getting to know this cast of characters who are looking into the transmissions. There were a bunch of specialities, alongside a military person, and while tempers rose multiple times, figuring out what was going on was a top priority. 

That ending though, that was perfect! And just in time, because what they feared could've happened, only just didn't because a few hours changed everything, and I loved what ahppened because of that change, that was really heartwarming! 

Loved reading this and I can't wait to read more by Sylvain Neuvel! 

Author: Sylvain Neuvel 
Read: December 9th, 2023 
Source:  Audible 
Reason Why: Love his writing and it sounded really great and it's a SAC 2033 Book! 
Publisher: Audible Originals
Published: August 11nd 2022
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Saturday, December 9, 2023

Magical Readathon: Orilium Update 4

So I read my next book for Magical Readathon: Orilium Lightfall at Old Favour Pass, and it was No Kindness Too Soon which was for the prompt Owlcat Craft Cafe, and I'll be reading Same Time Next Year next! 

My Reading Journey:

Howl for the Gargoyle by Kathryn Moon
Prompt Fulfilled: The Old Tails Bookstore
Started On: December 9th
Finished On: December 9th, 1:38 PM
Pages Read: 291

Don't Hang Up by Benjamin Stevenson
Prompt Fulfilled: Owlcat Craft Cafe
Started On: December 9th
Finished On: December 9th, 2:51 PM
Pages Read: 101

The House on the Water by Margot Hunt
Prompt Fulfilled: Owlcat Craft Cafe
Started On: December 9th
Finished On: December 9th, 4:02 PM
Pages Read: 87

No Kindness Too Soon by Sylvain Neuvel
Prompt Fulfilled: Owlcat Craft Cafe
Started On: December 9th
Finished On: December 9th, 4:58 PM
Pages Read: 150

Same Time Next Year by Tessa Bailey
Prompt Fulfilled: Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer
Started On: December 9th
Currently On: Page 0 of 144

Prompts Left: The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Owlcat Craft Cafe, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Owlcat Craft Cafe, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Owlcat Craft Cafe, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Owlcat Craft Cafe, Occult Premonitions Bookstore      
Read: 4
Pages Read: 629

Magical Readathon: Orilium Update 3

So I read my next book for Magical Readathon: Orilium Lightfall at Old Favour Pass, and it was The House on the Hill which was for the prompt Owlcat Craft Cafe, and I'll be reading No Kindness Too Soon next! 

My Reading Journey:

Howl for the Gargoyle by Kathryn Moon
Prompt Fulfilled: The Old Tails Bookstore
Started On: December 9th
Finished On: December 9th, 1:38 PM
Pages Read: 291

Don't Hang Up by Benjamin Stevenson
Prompt Fulfilled: Owlcat Craft Cafe
Started On: December 9th
Finished On: December 9th, 2:51 PM
Pages Read: 101

The House on the Water by Margot Hunt
Prompt Fulfilled: Owlcat Craft Cafe
Started On: December 9th
Finished On: December 9th, 4:02 PM
Pages Read: 87

No Kindness Too Soon by Sylvain Neuvel
Prompt Fulfilled: Owlcat Craft Cafe
Started On: December 9th
Currently On: Page 0 of 150

Prompts Left: The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Owlcat Craft Cafe, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Owlcat Craft Cafe, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, The Old Tails Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Wallice's Wonderful Winter Wanimals, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Owlcat Craft Cafe, Occult Premonitions Bookstore, Smith & Friends & Sons Arcane Goods and Such, Shank & Shawl Legitimate Retailer, Owlcat Craft Cafe, Occult Premonitions Bookstore      
Read: 3
Pages Read: 479

Monday, July 31, 2023

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #634, July 31st

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!
What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #633
Teaser Tuesday #641
WWW Wednesday #641
WOW #637
Will the Time Come #634
Third Sentence Thursday #624
Random Reads #610
First Lines Friday #637
Book Blogger Hop #303
Monthly Series August Round Up
Monthly ARC's Update 45
The Reward Challenge Update #619
Wheel of TBR #166
How Well I Stuck to It #471
Wrote that Review Update #468

Week 30 Reviews:
Quicksilver

Magical Readathon: Orilium: 

Random:

OK, so I got 35 posts in 7 days, and I finished all of my July TBR, and most of my non-ARC's of my August TBR. Dobby had his surgery and is mostly healing well. He had the cancer lump removed, and also one on his back, which has swelled a few times, so that's been a bit concerning. But he's acting like normal, which is great. And he'll be able to get the stitches out next week. What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Bookshops & Bonedust, Enchanted to Meet You, and Shards of Glass!

When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek.

In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, New York Times bestselling author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books.

Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.

Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it.

What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?

Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.

Still, adventure isn't all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.
A witchy rom-com from New York Times bestseller Meg Cabot about a plus size witch who must team up with a handsome stranger to help protect her village from an otherworldly force--but will she be able to protect her heart?

It's Magic When You Meet Your Match

In her teenage years, lovelorn Jessica Gold cast a spell that went disastrously wrong, and brought her all the wrong kind of attention--as well as a lifetime ban from the World Council of Witches.

So no one is more surprised than Jess when, fifteen years later, tall, handsome WCW member Derrick Winters shows up in her quaint little village of West Harbor and claims that Jess is the Chosen One.

She's the Chosen One

Not chosen by West Harbor's snobby elite to style them for the town's tricentennial ball--though Jess owns the chicest clothing boutique in town. And not chosen finally to be on the WCW, either--not that Jess would have said yes, anyway, since she's done with any organization that tries to dictate what makes a "true" witch.

No, Jess has been chosen to help save West Harbor itself . . .

As Summer Ends, Her Power Grows

But just when Jess is beginning to think that she and Derrick might have a certain magic of their own--and not of the supernatural variety--Jess learns he may not be who she thought he was.

And suddenly Jess finds herself having to make another kind of choice: trust Derrick and work with him to combat the sinister force battling to bring down West Harbor, or use her gift as she always has: to keep herself, and her heart, safe.

Can she work her magic in time?
The Academia, once an elite proving ground for the rulers of the world, has been frozen for centuries. Now its strange slumber has ended, and a new Chancellor, an orange-eyed dragon, has reopened its lecture halls and readied its dorms. In order to thrive once more, however, the Academia needs fresh blood—new students with a passion and talent for learning.

One such student, Robin, has the perfect recruit in his friend Raven, an orphan who lives in the dangerous Warrens. Robin grew up in the Warrens, and he wouldn't have made it if not for Raven. He knows she'll be safe at the Academia, where her unusual gifts can be appreciated.

But when students start turning up dead, the campus threatens to collapse completely. Raven and Robin will not let that happen to their new home…if they can survive long enough to figure out who—or what—is trying to kill them.

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Week 30 Review: The Test

From Goodreads:
Britain, the not-too-distant future.
Idir is sitting the British Citizenship Test.
He wants his family to belong.

Twenty-five questions to determine their fate. Twenty-five chances to impress.
When the test takes an unexpected and tragic turn, Idir is handed the power of life and death.
How do you value a life when all you have is multiple choice?

My Review:
Oh, this story! This is really different from his two series thus far, no aliens, and it's mainly contemporary, though set not too far in the future. And oh, was it a great story! I loved how we were introduced to this guy who was taking the test-and then we learned what was going on, and then alternated between those perspectives! 

Idir is a gentle, kind person, a dentist, a loving husband and father. Basically the perfect candidate for citizenship. But then his test room got stormed by terrorists, and he's forced to make a series of really difficult choices.

Then we find out what was going on there, and oh, that put a different perspective on things. We got a brief mention of why the test is in place, what was really going on, but the main focus was on Idir taking his. I felt so bad for him! 

And oh, was the test brutal. And kinda biased. I could see some flaws in their reasoning, like the cop one, that is a generalization, which doesn't apply to all individuals. That ending, though, and why it came out, that was shocking and hard and made that last chapter so hard to read! 

This was a really great read, and I can't wait to read more by Sylvain Neuvel! 

Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Read: July 28th, 2023
Source: Ebook.bike 
Reason Why: Love his writing, and it sounded great, and it's a SAC 2023 Book! 
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: February 12th 2019
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Friday, July 28, 2023

First Lines Friday #637, July 28th

First Lines Friday is a bookish meme hosted by Literary Marie of Precision Reviews. We encourage all of our fellow book bloggers and bookhearts to play along.

-Grab your current read(s)
-Share the first line(s)
-Include the title and author so that other FLF participants can add the book to their TBR Lists!

"Question 1: Who is the patron saint of Wales and on which date is his feast day? I know the answer! It's Saint David, on March first. I met Tidir, my wife, on March first. It is our meeting anniversary. I remember that day. She came in for a root canal and I fell in love. Not with her—I didn’t know who she was and she didn’t exactly talk a lot with the mouth prop on. I fell in love with her teeth. She had striped canines. Horizontal discolouration of the enamel, right down the middle. Her teeth look like Neapolitan ice cream. Neapolitan cuspids. I knew right away."-The Test by Sylvian Neuvel

Aw, that sounds nice! Must read more now, because I don't think it'll stay nice for long! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Monday, July 24, 2023

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #633, July 24th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!
What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #632
Teaser Tuesday #640
WWW Wednesday #640
WOW #636
Will the Time Come #633
Third Sentence Thursday #623
Random Reads #609
First Lines Friday #636
Book Blogger Hop #302
Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge Update 90
The Reward Challenge Update #618
Wheel of TBR #165
How Well I Stuck to It #470
Wrote that Review Update #467

Week 29 Reviews:
Dragonfall
Endgame

OK, so I got 27 posts in 7 days, and I've read some really great books, and I'm happy with that. And Dobby's surgery is today, so I'm hoping that goes smoothly! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read whatever is left from my various TBR's before the month ends! 

Saturday, July 22, 2023

Week 29 Reviews: A History of What Comes Next, Until the Last of Me, For the First Time, Again



From Goodreads:
Showing that truth is stranger than fiction, Sylvain Neuvel weaves a scfi thriller reminiscent of Blake Crouch and Andy Weir, blending a fast moving, darkly satirical look at 1940s rocketry with an exploration of the amorality of progress and the nature of violence in A History of What Comes Next.

Always run, never fight.
Preserve the knowledge.
Survive at all costs.
Take them to the stars.

Over 99 identical generations, Mia's family has shaped human history to push them to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices and sacrificing countless lives. Her turn comes at the dawn of the age of rocketry. Her mission: to lure Wernher Von Braun away from the Nazi party and into the American rocket program, and secure the future of the space race.

But Mia's family is not the only group pushing the levers of history: an even more ruthless enemy lurks behind the scenes.

A darkly satirical first contact thriller, as seen through the eyes of the women who make progress possible and the men who are determined to stop them...

The First Rule is the most important: 'Always run, never fight'.

For 3000 years Mia's family has shaped Earth's history to push humanity to the stars, making brutal, wrenching choices along the way.

And now, in the year of 1968, Mia finds herself about to help launch the first people into space. She can't take them to the stars, not quite yet. But with her adversary almost upon her, and with the future of the planet at stake, it's becoming clearer that obeying the First Rule is no longer an option.

For the first time since her line's first generation, Mia will have to choose to stand her ground, knowing that the overwhelming odds mean that she risks not only her bloodline, but also the future of the human race.

Sylvain Neuvel's sci-fi thriller Until the Last of Me is a fast, darkly satirical alternate history of the 1960s space race in which the struggle isn't to be the first to the stars - but the last one standing.

From Goodreads:
For the First Time, Again is the closing chapter in Sylvian Neuvel's acclaimed Take Them to the Stars trilogy.

When you don’t know The Rules it's hard to stay safe.

After a traumatic incident, Aster finds that her blood work comes back with some unusual readings. Unsurprising, as she's the last of an alien race called the Kibsu, though she doesn't know it.

She finds herself the focus of a hunt, with her mortal enemies, the Trackers, on one side, and the American government on the other. But help has come from a most unexpected quarter.

Whoever finds her first, it won't be good news for Aster, or for the world!

My Review:
I loved reading these books! I devoured them in audio, just like I did in his other series, and I'm glad that I did, because I'm pretty sure that these were full cast audio just like the Themis Files. And this story about the Kibsu, each consecutive pair doing their best to get humanity to the stars, it was such a great read! 

Watching these sets of ladies, who look exactly like their mother, and their mother, all the way to the beginning, with their mission, was so great. And where this series started, with WWII, which seems to be the main thrust before the space race started, was so fascinating! 

We mainly followed the Kibsu, the various pairs, from WWII, until the 90's. But we also got little bits of previous Kibsu, from the very first to the unique particulars each pair could face. And a few perspectives from the Trackers, which was interesting, and really rounded out this world! 

That ending of For the First Time Again, it was so clever, but just a little bit bittersweet. She accomplished her goals, but what that meant made for some hard decisions. But oh, I absolutely loved that bonus epilogue! I kinda makes me hope that we got a novella, at the very least, that explores the future that the epilogue opens up! 

These were such fantastic reads, and I can't wait to read more by Sylvain Neuvel! 

Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Series: Take Them to the Stars #1, 2, 3
Read: July 16th, 17th, 17th, 2023 
Source: Library 
Reason Why: Love his writing and it sounded really great, and they're Historical Fiction 2023 Books and Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books!
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: February 2nd 2021, March 29th 2022, April 18th 2023

A History of What Comes Next: 
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








Until the Last of Me:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








For the First Time, Again:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Sunday, July 16, 2023

Sylvain Neuvel Author Page

The Story: I saw people talk about the Themis Files audiobooks, and I've been getting into audiobooks in the past 2 years, so I listened to them and just devoured them, they were so great! And I can't wait to read more by him! 

Website

Series: Themis Files, Take Them to the Stars.



Stand Alone's: The Test and her site, my review, No Kindness Too Soon and my review, The Many and his site, my review.

Monday, February 13, 2023

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #610, February 13th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!
What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #609
Teaser Tuesday #617
WWW Wednesday #617
WOW #613
Will the Time Come #610
Third Sentence Thursday #600
Random Reads #586
First Lines Friday #613
Book Blogger Hop #279
23 Books to Read in 2022 Update 1
The Reward Challenge Update #595
Wheel of TBR #142
How Well I Stuck to It #447
Wrote that Review Update #444

Week 6 Reviews:
Graduation Day

Magical Readathon: Orilium: 

Polarthon Readathon: 

Random:
Spring Into Reading-A-Thon 2023 Sign Up

OK, so I got 32 posts in 7 days, and it was a quite week, but I finally finished my 2021 reviews! Woot! I'm hoping to get halfway through 2022 reviews. If I could finish, that'd be great, but there's probably over 120. I do have this week off for vacation, so I have time, it's just if I use it on reviews enough...But yeah, I'm looking forward to having this week off! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read what I want to read! 

Sunday, February 12, 2023

How Well I Stuck to It #447, February 12th

So I decided that I should have accountability on sticking to what should be in a week, so I'm doing How Well I Stuck to It every Sunday, because my schedule should be fixed in by now!

Week 7:
Nothing Planned!

I have a free week to read what I want, and I have plenty to read during my week of vacation! 

Week 6:
Encore in Death by J.D. Robb, Radiant Sin by Katee Robert

vs.

Graduation Day by Joelle Charbonneau, The Stolen Heir by Holly Black, Only Human by Sylvian Neuvel,
File No. 2491 by Sylvian Neuvel, Radiant Sin by Katee Robert, Encore in Death by J.D. Robb, The Accidental Pinup by Danielle Jackson, Warrior of the Wild by Tricia Levenseller, Shadow by Amanda Sun, Ink by Amanda Sun

I read what I wanted, and then I read a few others, so I'm happy with that. I'm sure I'll read a lot next week because I have all that free time! I can't wait! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Week 6 Reviews: Only Human, File No. 2491


From Goodreads:
In her childhood, Rose Franklin accidentally discovered a giant metal hand buried beneath the ground outside Deadwood, South Dakota. As an adult, Dr. Rose Franklin led the team that uncovered the rest of the body parts which together form Themis: a powerful robot of mysterious alien origin. She, along with linguist Vincent, pilot Kara, and the unnamed Interviewer, protected the Earth from geopolitical conflict and alien invasion alike. Now, after nearly ten years on another world, Rose returns to find her old alliances forfeit and the planet in shambles. And she must pick up the pieces of the Earth Defense Corps as her own friends turn against each other.

From Goodreads:
From the author's website:

MAJOR SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ BEFORE FINISHING THE SERIES!

My Review:
Oh yeah, I loved reading these so much! I've really just devoured this series, it's been so unique and entertaining! And I'm again so happy that I read the full lenth book in audio. I just kinda wish that the extra files had been in audio, as well. Especially this last one!

I knew from the one file and the synopsis of Only Human that things had changed. But I didn't realize just how much, or why. But the fact that they got the robot that Rose shut down to work again...there's a reason why the aliens intended on leaving a communication device and not Themis behind. 

Let me just say, that the threats that Vincent issued right at the end? That was so badass and just a bit scary! Like just line after line of violence! He's a dad protecting his daughter, and he's a linguist, so he's good with language. So that was so great! 

File No, 2491 was such a blast! It was short and sweet and gave us a look at what was going on that was of interest to us. And oh, that last line? Man, that was so fantastic! And I'm wondering-was Bob's friend of a friend, him? Please let it be so! And I really wouldn't mind a 4th book! 

I loved reading these so much, and I can't wait to read more by Sylvain Neuvel! 

Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Series: Themis Files #3, 3.5
Read: February 6th, 6th, 2023
Source: Library, Free
Reason Why: Loved the first two books in the series, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books, and Only Human is a End of Series 2023 Book! 
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, Sylvain Neuvel
Published: May 1st 2018, January 1st 2019

Only Human:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








File No. 2491:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars

Monday, February 6, 2023

Polarthon Readathon Update 1

So I read my first book for Polarthon Readathon, and it was Only Human which was for the prompt Adventure, and I'll be reading Warrior of the Wild next!

My Reading Journey:

Only Human by Sylvain Neuvel
Prompt Fulfilled: Adventure
Started On: February 6th
Finished On: February 6th, 3:15 PM
Pages Read: 352

Warriors of the Wild by Tricia Levenseller
Prompt Fulfilled: Foiled Cover
Started On: February 
Currently On: Page 0 of 352

Prompts Left: Polar Fantasy, Cold Word, Watery, Magical, Adventure
Read: 1
Pages Read: 352

Saturday, February 4, 2023

Week 5 Reviews: File No. 002, Sleeping Giants, File No. 247, Waking Gods, File No. 1743





Read Sylvain Neuvel's Exclusive Lost Themis File!

From Goodreads:
An inventive debut in the tradition of World War Z and The Martian, told in interviews, journal entries, transcripts, and news articles, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by a quest for truth—and a fight for control of earthshaking power.
 
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 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?

A new Themis Files to read.

As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. As an adult, she's dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? Years of investigation have produced intriguing answers—and even more perplexing questions. But the truth is closer than ever before when a second robot, more massive than the first, materializes and lashes out with deadly force.

Now humankind faces a nightmare invasion scenario made real, as more colossal machines touch down across the globe. But Rose and her team at the Earth Defense Corps refuse to surrender. They can turn the tide if they can unlock the last secrets of an advanced alien technology. The greatest weapon humanity wields is knowledge in a do-or-die battle to inherit the Earth . . . and maybe even the stars.

A new Themis Files to read.

My Review
:
Oh wow, this was such a fantastic series! I loved how it started off with a girl falling into a giant robot hand, and everything that it built to! It was so unique and so interesting, and that it's a series of files, both interviews and private notes and letters, they were so great to read! 

I'm so glad that I listened to the audiobooks of these books. I'm pretty sure the term is full cast, because every character had a voice actor, and oh, it was so excellent, it was really easy to tell each of the characters apart! Plus each file had a note on who was the main subject, and where it was taking place.

Honestly, I'm not sure who my favourite character is. The nameless guy was so fascinating, he had a ton of information, and had a lot of power, and was really invested in this project. Dr. Rose Franklin, and how she's connected to the robot, and all that happens to her and the questions that she has. And then there's Kara and Vincent, who end up the pilots of Themis. They worked together so well, and I loved their dynamics! 

There's so much that goes on in these books, so many politics, starting off with the first book in bringing all the pieces together, learning about it, and some interesting turns. And the second book, when they're faced with the aliens that created Themis in the first place. I couldn't get enough! Waking Gods had some really incredible moments! And that ending was evil! I need to know what's going to happen next! That one file that comes between books 2 and 3 was pretty ominous, combined with the synopsis of book 3! 

I loved reading these books, and I can't wait to finish out the series! 

Author: Sylvain Neuvel
Series: Themis Files #0.5, 1,1.5, 2, 2.5
Read: February 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 3rd, 2023
Source: Free, Library
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and they're Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2023 Books, and Sleeping Giants is a DAC Book and a RR Book! And Waking Gods is a Sophomore Challenge Book! 
Publisher: unboundworlds.com, Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Published: March 29th 2017, April 26th 2016, January 1st 2016, April 4th 2017, January 1st 2016

File No. 002:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








Sleeping Giants:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








File No. 247:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








Waking Gods: 
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars








File No. 1743:
5/5 Hearts
5/5 Books
5/5 Stars