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I didn’t expect to fall in love with this book. I actually got the e-book and was highly uninterested. I really love epistolary books, and this book was actually all over Litsy (which I’m a huge fan of) and so I thought that it was a book I would immediately fall in love with. Like I said, I started with the e-book, and actually stopped reading. I heard though, that the audiobook was amazing, so I took a chance.

My favorite audiobook of all time is “World War Z”, but this is an extremely close second. It features a full cast, and it’s extremely immersive. There is a part where a character screams bloody murder for lack of a better word, and it felt so real, and so out of the blue I was shocked. I felt totally and completely immersed in this book. It isn’t awkward because you have two actors trying to do a whole cast of characters, each character has an extremely distinctive voice.

Rose Franklin falls into a hand when she’s young, and when she grows up she’s a scientist who is now in charge of the project of investigating the hand. And now, more body parts keep showing up. What is this giant? What does it do? Where is it from? She assembles a fantastic cast of characters, who Neuvel is able to write seamlessly.