Acceptance (The Southern Reach Trilogy)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780007553532 (0007553536)
Publish date: September 11th 2014
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Pages no: 200
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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