The third book in Sylvain Neuvel’s Themis Files Trilogy, Only Human, came out earlier this summer and I wasted as little time as I could before sitting down to read it.
First, kudos to Mr. Neuvel for releasing the trilogy in 3 consecutive years. There is something wonderful about not having to wait years between installments. If you haven’t read Sleeping Giants or Waking Gods, please consider doing so: both are full of giant robots and war and alien intelligence and the humans who are trying to control it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, because this is a trilogy, the first two books are VITAL to reading Only Human. I mean, really vital. There is a smidgen of back story in this book, but if you want to understand anything of the characters, their journeys, the history of Themis and her robot cohorts and the aliens that created them . . . well, you’re going to need to read the first two books.
Quick fun fact: rumor has it that at some point Sony Pictures will develop this series, or at least the first book, into a movie. Maybe. It’s been in development for a while, so who knows. I just like this picture because it visually depicts the giant robot.
Only Human picks up the story some time after the concluding events of Waking Gods, which ended with Rose, Vincent, and Eva somehow being transported (inside their robot, Themis) to the planet of Themis’s birth, which is clearly not Earth. The creators of the giant robots have several guiding principles, one of which is to not interfere with the progression and development of other planets. That is, after all, the entire reason they sent their robot fleet to Earth in the second book: to eradicate all trace of themselves on planet Earth. Unfortunately, their people had – at some point in the last few thousand years – decided to mate with humans and the eradicate-alien-traces approach meant many millions of people died.
Suffice to say, the aliens in question had not intended to kill all the human people, so now they had a conundrum: in trying to revert back to their “do not interfere” mantra, they had substantially interfered with Earth by killing all those people.
Rose, Vincent, and Eva find themselves in a questionable situation: the aliens will not send them home, because that would be further interference, but the aliens aren’t quite sure they need to keep them, because they are a different race. Instead, our little team of humans is given a house and tasks to feel that they are productive members of society. Eva is happy to live on this new world, with her friends and childhood firmly entrenched in this environment. Rose and Vincent, however, know they need to get back to Earth, and spend a great deal of time trying to plan their escape.
Ultimately, they do escape. But their alien friends are not quite so willing to let them go entirely, and what follows is a story that examines what lengths people will go to for their friends and family, whether blood-related or not.
Like the first two books, this story is told using “files”. Our mystery director from the first book liked to keep case files – both written and oral recordings – and Rose has kept up this practice. It’s a bit unconventional for the reader. Making it even more of a challenge: each chapter/file alternates character point-of-view, planet, and timeline. That’s a lot to keep straight, and it always took me a page or two to fully orient myself to where we were on the timeline and what planet we were on at that point in the timeline and who is involved in the story at this point in the timeline.
For some reason, I did not enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed the first two. It’s always a little disappointing when the first book of a series is really well done, then the second one is well done, and the third one is just good. I always hope that a series will maintain its momentum and level of enjoyment, and it’s always a bit of a disappointment when I feel like a series drops off a little with each book.
I didn’t like the new human people we were introduced to; in particular, that Russian military woman just irked me for some reason. She was . . . over used, perhaps? There was too much of her, and I never fully grasped really who she was or what she wanted or why. I would have liked to see more of the aliens, or maybe to have had the aliens create a few of the files from their point of view. I wanted to see more of the alien world; parts of it were described in detail, but I had a hard time visualizing that environment or what they did on a daily basis while they lived there for ten years.
A fun fact: there was a bit of a language that was developed and it was used regularly and consistently enough for me to begin to recognize words once we got towards the middle of the book. I have no idea when I’ll actually use the word “yokits” in a conversation, but it’s fun to think I could. Or, at least, I think it’s fun.
And, if you’ve read the first two books, you may be pleased (or displeased, I suppose) to know that Mr. Burns is back with stories and allegories and other bits of random pseudo-wisdom.
So, if you like giant robots and aliens, this is still probably a good book. I did enjoy it, even if I didn’t think it was quite as well done as the first or second. Which is a bit of a bummer.
Overall: 6/10
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