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Having loved the Southern Reach trilogy, I knew I'd like this, but I was unprepared for how much I would fuckingloveit!!!
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I have to admit, I didn't expect very much from this book. I readAnnihilationa while back, and found myself fairly underwhelmed by it. I thought the setting and aura of the story were quite good, but I found myself at a terrible disconnect from the main character, and I kind of thought that the same would apply here. I had heard a lot of good things, but I just wasn't sure VanderMeer was for me.
It turns out, he definitely can be. What I said about my character disconnect in Annihilation? Not ...more
It turns out, he definitely can be. What I said about my character disconnect in Annihilation? Not ...more
Rachel and Wick live in the City, although living is a very different proposition from what it was six years ago when the Company failed. Now everyone must be considered an enemy and a residence must be hidden and provided with plenty of traps to catch would-be intruders. There are no government services, no money and no civilization as most would consider it. There are only power factions and a demand that everyone pick a side. Rachel is a scavenger and brings home to Wick the food and technolo
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I put a hold on this on a total whim (yet another reason why the library is great: because impulse reading is good when impulse spending is not). I don't read a ton of sf these days, although once upon a time, late teens/early 20s, this kind of gnarly dystopian fiction was totally my thing—it matched up well with the gnarly dystopian lower Manhattan of the early '80s, and I think a lot of us secretly imagined ourselves to be undercover Mad Maxes (remember when welikedMel Gibson?). I fell back
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Maybe 2.5 stars? I wasn't in the mood to read this when I started out, but it had come in at the library, so read it I must. The beginning was a bit slow and honestly a tiny bit confusing as you're dumped right into the bizarre dystopia that is the backdrop for this book. Things do pick up at the end, but almost too late. There should have been more adventure sooner. But I did finish it, and I didn't hate it. I was left more confused than anything. I always feel a bit like I've missed the point
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I can't decide if I really liked this book or not. There are parts that I enjoyed, but I had trouble getting into the story. While there is some action it is really focused on discovery who one is.
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