![]() ![]() , The first book in the series is often a complete story and what then follows feels bolted on a continuation of something that was already complete. It often feels like all the best ideas were put into book one and, after a successful first volume, the author is asked to write more along the same vein. I find with many modern trilogies the follow-up books are weaker than the first. ![]() Here are five reasons why you should read them. The Themis Files are science fiction of the highest order. Look out for another 5 Reasons post soon!). Jemisin’s excellent The Fifth Seasonout of the way first. ![]() Yet it’s only now that I’ve found a gap in the schedule to write about them. I started the first book, Sleeping Giants, back in May and devoured it, and the two subsequent books, Waking Gods and Only Human, in short order. So it is with the Themis Files by Sylvain Neuvel, one of the best trilogies I’ve read in a very long time. ![]() Family life intervenes, new deadlines arrive, and books I’ve loved sit on the paper mountain patiently waiting for the attention they deserve. It’s a peculiar fact of my reviewing life that sometimes the things I enjoy the most end up falling by wayside. ![]()
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