Sleeping Giants

A story told through interview transcripts and personal journal entries

A young girl falls into a sinkhole; when she is rescued, it is from a deep hole with a giant-sized hand in a room of huge wallpanels of a mysterious substance, which display strange glowing symbols. She grows up to become a highly-trained physicist -- but her mind never escapes the mystery of the ancient buried artifact. As an adult with an advanced degree, she is tasked with studying the object; she discovers that there are matching giant body parts distributed all over the earth, which can be assembled into a robot-like "body" driven by a "control room" located in the torso.

This debut novel consists solely of people relating the details of what has occurred in their presence and their thoughts about those events. It's mainly told through interview transcripts, with some personal journal entries -- but that seems to work pretty well. It's a fast, enjoyable read, with some interesting worldbuilding. The ending is clearly a setup for the next book in the series, but I enjoyed it enough not to mind that, and will definitely be picking up the second book, Waking Gods.