Paperback, 341 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2014 by HarperCollinsPublishers.
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 the final 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.
Very humanising ending to a story about the inhuman Area X.
I don't think I liked this book quite as much as the previous two, but it still sucked me in and I'm not sure how better the trilogy could have been wrapped up. There are a lot of still unanswered questions at the end, which feels fitting but something about the style of this one felt like a tease, where the previous two volumes felt more convincingly like the answers simply weren't there to be had.
I still love and strongly recommend this trilogy overall.
Interesting book, but as some previous reviewers have pointed out, still a lot of unanswered questions. I was hoping for a little more closure, but all in all, a gorgeously written series that I really enjoyed, even if I didn’t end up fully getting it.
An entirely good finish to the story, even if nothing really made sense.
If you've ever wondered what Lost might have been like if the writers actually knew where they are going, this might give you an idea. It also feels like a version of Roadside Picnic with more attention paid to the biology and ecology of the region, and the melancholic inner lives of the humans trapped in its orbit. I'm intrigued to see how Annihilation is adapted for the big screen and if it draws from the rest of the series or takes its own path.
