Sleeping Giants

An alien artifact is discovered and this leads to a chase to get it all working again. Told through a series of interviews, the writing style brings to mind World War Z, although this time the media is all very similar rather than the extended cast used there. In this novel, the interviewer is a constant figure, although he is never quite named. The conversations recorded have a suitably official type feel and it allows the reader to parse together the outline of the story very effectively without telling it in a more descriptive manner.

The basic premise of god like aliens leaving tech behind on Earth has been done before, but the documentary style is effective at telling the story. The documentary style does lose some of the character development, but for this type of story that is less important

A solid start to what looks like an interesting trilogy