Reviewed by thepunktheory on
You find my description of the plot to be confusing and - well - rather undescript? That's because the entire book is this way.
It's irritating and will leave you with a ton of unanswered questions.
Novels like that frustrate me a great deal.
The idea behind Annihilation is interesting enough. The beginning is also intriguing, so dove in, desperate to get some more info on Area X.
However, we don't know how reliable (if reliable at all) the narrator is. The story is told by the biologist who is a member of the expedition sent into Area X.
She doesn't even know herself whether what she sees is real or if she's been hypnotized (which is a thing in this book). We actually never find out what is true and was is not.
While I could sometimes relate to the biologist, I mostly found the book rather dull. That annoyed so much because the idea was so promising and many moments throughout the book had me hoping. But ultimately the novel fails to live to expectations it raises.
I really wanted to like the book, I tried to be intrigued but for every sentence that captured my interest an entire chapter of boredom followed.
Furthermore, the book kept piling up questions without answering a single one of them.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 16 July, 2019: Finished reading
- 16 July, 2019: Reviewed