This sci-fi/fantasy book was available as an advance copy
from Netgalley.
Rose Franklin made a startling discovery on her 11th
birthday when she snuck off to test her new bicycle and fell into a deep
hole-she landed on a hand. A giant metal hand that radiated turquoise light.
Seventeen years later Rose is a physicist and is about to embark on one of the
strangest experiments she will ever encounter. Assisted by pilots Kara Resnik
and Ryan Mitchell, linguist Vincent Couture and geneticist Alyssa Papantoniou,
she and her mysterious benefactor will attempt to find the other parts that
belong to the hand and try to piece it together. If they succeed what will this
mean for the future of the world?
Cleverly written in the form of non-sequential interviews, journal
entries and records, the style forces you to concentrate on the words and the
jump between characters, and really reiterates the feeling of a military
operation. The characters were developed to a point-considering the scope of
the book it was not really necessary to delve into their pasts too deeply. The contrasting
personalities played against each other well. The enigmatic interviewer was
kept just that-an enigma wrapped in a mystery shrouded in secrets-who is he and
why? I am torn between wanting to know the answer, to leaving it a riddle. An
interesting proposal too as to what would happen between the nations of the
world when each believe they have the right to ownership. The copy I received
stated that it was an uncorrected proof so the incorrect fonts between
characters and the missing quotation marks should all be corrected in time. I
really enjoyed the concept behind the book and loved the weaving in of numeric
linguistics, Greek mythology and metallurgy. Something happens too easily which
leaves you asking questions, and then the cliff hanger bangs you in the face
with it-you eagerly turn the page and find out that you need to wait for the
next book-gutted! Highly recommended.
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