The Southern Reach Series: Annihilation : A Novel (Series #1) (Paperback)

from Meredy

Six-word review: Psychological thriller explores strange new territory. Extended review: As soon as I finished this novel, I went online and ordered the other two books in the trilogy. It's so short--just 195 pages--that I suspect the publisher did a "Hobbit" movie thing and spread over three tit...

from bhiggs

Strange book, not very much like the film at all. Unsettling and creepy, but not necessarily outright "scary" the way a S. King novel might be. I really enjoyed it, and its a quick read. According to Amazon reviews, just read this and skip the next two in the trilogy? Interesting - I may take tha...

from GingerbreadMan

This is the kind of book where you constantly find your self short of breath. The paranoia, quiet horror and utter weirdness of VanderMeer's slim novel is suffocating and claustrophobic., yet very believable. Nobody quite seems to know what the deal with Area X is. Under the jurisdiction of the a...

from stellarexplorer

This book mesmerized me. The challenge is to say anything about the actual book, as any thoughtful statement requires qualification, in particular an acknowledgement that any definite interpretation is provisional. Every deliberate word augments the literary realization of the unique ecosystem in...

from psutto

Area X has been contained behind the border for 30 years So starts the first book in a new trilogy from Jeff Vandermeer. The Southern Reach has sent 11 expeditions into Area X. Many of them have failed to come back, or have come back changed Our narrator is one of 4 in the 12th expedition, she is...