A History of What Comes Next

This serves as a pretty decent historical fiction novel. The writing can be a bit slow and dry at times but the plot is refreshing and I found the flashbacks were a nice inclusion. There's quite a bit of violence, gore, and other disturbing instances, though if you've a strong stomach like myself it won't bug ya.

Always run, never fight.Preserve the knowledge.Survive at all costs.Take them to the stars.

Amazing!!! Speculative fiction at its finest. Aliens (the kibu) have been gently manipulating humanity for thousands of years, nudging them towards the stars, all the while on the run from another bunch of aliens who will stop at nothing to wipe them out.

There's rockets, vodka, love, dogs, death and more rockets and blood, lots and lots of blood and violence. My only complaint, it was over too soon, ordered the next book straight away.

Suffice to say that I will read the next book in the trilogy. I didn't fall in love with it, but it convinced me enough to want to know how the story continues.
If you're not very good at history, you won't be able to enjoy the book in the same way as someone who has knowledge of the events of at least the last 120 years.
The writer manages perfectly to interweave real history with fiction, spiced up with a dash of sci-fi.
Perhaps his writing style is not to the liking of many. I am certainly more comfortable with other writing styles, but not enough to give up reading.

Almost four stars.

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A History of What Comes Next by Sylvain Neuvel is an awesome sci-fi alternative history exploring first contact and the space race. Cloning aliens have walked among us for thousands of years with the singular mission: “take them to the stars.” Mothers and daughters working to advance the cause of human space exploration in tension with evading the cruelty of their mysterious adversaries and longing to live in the world they're trying to save. The book is loaded with real history and the author's afterward at the end of the audiobook does a great job highlighting the real inspirations of the plot. I really enjoyed Neuvel's Themis trilogy and I loved this book too. Probably will listen to the sequel soon.

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3.5 stars

This book felt a little lukewarm for me for the majority of following Mia's adventures through Germany. I had expected a little more sci-fi but i had heard this one focuses more on the characters. I suppose this was similarly the case with the Themis Files. This whole time we're following the Kipsu vs The Tracker which was the part of the story i enjoyed the most. Who were this ‘race' of people and where did they come from. Why are they here and what are they looking for. It was great to learn about the previous ‘iterations' that came before them.
Good story.

My thoughts here.

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I'll be honest, the only thing I really took away from this book was confusion.

I didn't get much (read: any) of the science stuff, but I loved how the narrative was woven into real historical events. It could feel a bit like an info-dump at times, however, which felt like reading a textbook instead of a novel.

I didn't have an emotional connection with the characters, which made it feel like: why am I reading this book? But then something interesting would happen and keep me reading a little more. The cycle repeated until I eventually finished the book.

I wouldn't necessarily say I recommend this book, but I'll probably read the second book just because I'm curious.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.