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This book/series of books is extremely frustrating and unsatisfying. It's like listening to a person describe a very detailed but also very boring dream, with the logic of dreams that, if you are not the dreamer, appear only as gaps or blanks to the listener. If you have heard good but vague praise

Literary in ambition and new weird in execution, the writing and ideas pull you along but ultimately lead you nowhere.

3 and a half, rounded up. This was an intense book... Jeff VanderMeer's books are always difficult to describe and review. I love where that man's brain goes: his weird and atmospheric stories have a way of sticking to my mind in the most haunting way. "The Southern Reach" trilogy had been on my shel Leggi tutto

The first book in this trilogy, Annihilation, is a five-star home run. The writing is terse, focused, and lean. There is some properly frightening parts, and the story moves quickly enough to pull the reader through, speckling in necessary background information occasionally. The second book, Author Leggi tutto

Stunning and mesmerizing. A masterpiece of the weird fiction genre. Many readers will surely be drawn to the unique ecological setting and horror. But what I found most gripping were the linguistical and relative meanderings about the nature of meaning and knowing - - about how ever much we can know Leggi tutto