Oceans rise, empires fall, it’s much harder when it’s all your call

It took me a bit to get into this one but, by the time I was about three quarters of the way through, I was pretty desperate to finish it. Granted, that is a long way to go to get to the good stuff, but I’m not sure I can blame the book because I recently fell into a BOOK RUT big time and so my reading experience suffered.

(I blame the book rut entirely on Penny Reid because I kept reading her Knitting in the City and Beard series even though I wasn’t even enjoying them because, I don’t know, I kept thinking they’d get better? What’s the definition of insanity again?)

Anyway. Dr. Rose Franklin fell into a deep crevice as a child, and landed in the hand of a giant. Just the hand, though, the rest of the giant wasn’t attached. As an adult, she is put in charge of a project to track down the rest of the figure. We follow the journey in fits and starts, as we’re only given glimpses of the characters through their interrogations by a nameless character who seems to be pulling all the strings. They all have one mission, though: to fully construct this figure, whatever it may turn out to be.

I hesitate to say more because the mystery is part of the fun of reading this one. I will say that I was pleasantly surprised with how likeable some of the characters were, and I was impressed by how fully fleshed the characters felt even in just these tiny glimpses into their stories. The nameless character who is leading the endeavor is quite sassy in his own right, as well. However, I didn’t feel any real pull to any of them. I wasn’t invested in their relationships, for the most part, and didn’t even really care much about what happened to them. So that’s probably what made it hard for me to keep reading.

However, by the time I finished, I was pretty convinced that I’d read more of this series. So there’s that. It was an interesting premise and narrative device. If this is the introduction to even crazier things to come, I’m on board.