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Waking Gods
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In the gripping sequel to Sleeping Giants, which was hailed by Pierce Brown as "a luminous conspiracy yarn...reminiscent of The Martian and World War Z", Sylvain Neuvel's innovative series about human-alien contact takes another giant step forward.
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 now 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.
Cast of narrators:
Andy Secombe - Interviewer
Eric Meyers - Headings
Roy McMillan - Jacob Lawson
Laurel Lefkow - Rose Franklin
Adna Sablylich - Marina Antoniou a.k.a. Alyssa Papantoniou
Charlie Anson - Vincent Couture; Jamie
Christopher Ragland - Ryan Mitchell; Lieutenant General Alan A Simms
William Hope - Mr Burns; Eugene Govender
Madeleine Rose - Kara Resnik
Karina Fernandez - Eva Reyes
Olivia Dowd - Sarah Kent
Sarah Wells - Deborah Horsburgh
What the critics say
“Kick-ass, one-on-one robot action combines with mind-bending scientific and philosophical speculation. Series science-fiction fans will enjoy this follow-up filled with unexpected revelations and a surprise finale.” (Booklist)
“Pure, unadulterated literary escapism featuring giant killer robots and the looming end of mankind. In a word: unputdownable.” (Kirkus Reviews [starred review])
“Sheer escapist fun.” (Shelf Awareness)
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- A Mckay
- 2022-12-31
not bad.
the story and performance were okay for the most part. I really didn't like the Eva performance. it might be enough for me not to finish the trilogy.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018-09-18
Unique book
I love this series. It lends itself perfectly to audio because it's all diologue. Great story and awesome actors. #audible1
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- Helena
- 2018-06-19
Narrating was mostly great but...
...why isn't the ten year old character narrated by a ten year old?! It was so distracting.
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- Tristan Buxton
- 2018-02-12
Enjoyed greatly.
With the exception of Eva's voice actor, the second instalment was great. Cannot wait to start with third book.
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- Dave Miedema
- 2024-03-16
great performance, great story
action packed, great ideas, good world building. very entertaining! could see this as a movie at dinner point
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- Olivia
- 2020-06-28
Full cast reading of a great story!
loved every minute from start to finish. great cast, well performed, and a great story.
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- Caitlin Boucher
- 2019-01-26
love this series
the writing style of this series was basically made to be an audiobook. the fact that it has a full cast and even has sound effects just makes it a million times more enjoyable. I don't think I would have loved this series as much if I had just read it.
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- Philippe Parent
- 2022-04-27
hard to stop
so good I listened to it in one day, the way the story is told is just perfect ... it's now 4 am got to go to sleep but its hard to put down can't wait for tomorrow morning to start the last book!!
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- Samantha Eck
- 2020-02-27
This is how an audiobook SHOULD be.
THIS audiobook is PURE listening GOLD. Seriously worth it! I own a physical copy as well but I find myself just drawn to the audio version.
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- Jamie @ Books and Ladders
- 2022-10-02
A Great Sequel!
Content Warning: death, cloning, cohersion, forced birth
I really enjoyed this one and liked that it started with a time skip. I also literally laughed out loud that the one character is named after an neon genesis evangelion character. I still loved this as an audiobook and think this is made to be listened to. The full cast is amazing.
I loved the way this built upon the original story and gave us more worldbuilding, especially outside of the characters. I'm so glad that even when the world is supposed to "come together," there is still a lot of power plays with the government agencies. I think this is a pretty super realistic approach to what would happen.
I'm excited to see what happens in book three!
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