Annihilation (Southern Reach Trilogy, #1)

Item: Annihilation
Rating: 4.00
Author: empressbrooke

by Jeff VanderMeer

’A contemporary masterpiece’ Guardian
THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE EXTRAORDINARY SOUTHERN REACH TRILOGY – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY ALEX GARLAND (EX MACHINA) AND STARRING NATALIE PORTMAN AND OSCAR ISAAC

For thirty years, Area X has remained mysterious and remote behind its intangible border – an environmental disaster zone, though to all appearances an abundant wilderness.

The Southern Reach, a secretive government agency, has sent eleven expeditions to investigate Area X. One has ended in mass suicide, another in a hail of gunfire, the eleventh in a fatal cancer epidemic.

Now four women embark on the twelfth expedition into the unknown.

Reviewed by empressbrooke on Dec 11, 2014

4 of 5 stars

This book was rather short, but it took me a few days to get through it. Every time I was too busy to pick it back up, or had to put it down to go to sleep, I felt an overwhelming NEED TO KNOW what happens next. It's mysterious and creepy and at times frankly terrifying. I don't know what the next two books in the trilogy will focus on, but my library hold can't come in fast enough.

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