Acceptance: A Novel
It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border, on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown—navigating new terrain and new challenges—the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. In this...
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It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border, on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown—navigating new terrain and new challenges—the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. In this last installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound—or terrifying.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780374104115 (0374104115)
ASIN: 374104115
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Series: Southern Reach Trilogy (#3)
The three novels of the Southern Reach Trilogy amount to the best recent science fiction series that I have read. Let's define recent as within the last decade. Why so good? It comes down to a combination of literary skill coupled with a scorchingly original pathway of ideas. I'm choosing words care...
When you're dealing with a series as freaky wig-out as the Southern Reach, it's difficult to wrap things up satisfactorily. You could go the way of the X-Files, and just get stupider and stupider until you die, having destroyed the mystery with a drearily linear explanation that insults everyone's i...
I don't know exactly how to say anything about this book. It haunted me throughout my reading of it.
Surprisingly touching and fills in the gaps well, without being disappointing or breaking too much of the tension. I didn't like the switching back and forth between times/points of view - I think it was done to build up suspense, but I don't think it was necessary. Once I was in a viewpoint, I want...
Surprisingly touching and fills in the gaps well, without being disappointing or breaking too much of the tension. I didn't like the switching back and forth between times/points of view - I think it was done to build up suspense, but I don't think it was necessary. Once I was in a viewpoint, I want...
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