moving to outside.ofa.dog's review of Acceptance

moving to outside.ofa.dog reviewed Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer (The Southern Reach Trilogy, #3)

Jeff VanderMeer: Acceptance (2014, Macmillan)

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It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has …

Fitting end to an amazing series

4 stars

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.

Soh Kam Yung replied to moving to outside.ofa.dog's status

@eldang Off topic comment. I'm not really a fan of book covers that break up a single word.

I first saw that as AC-Cep-Tan-CE: AC as in 'alternating current', and 'Tan' is a common Chinese Surname.

@eldang Off topic comment. I'm not really a fan of book covers that break up a single word.

I first saw that as AC-Cep-Tan-CE: AC as in 'alternating current', and 'Tan' is a common Chinese Surname.

moving to outside.ofa.dog replied to Soh Kam Yung's status

@sohkamyung Heh, I agree, and I bet it would be more distracting if "Tan" were a common name in my milieu. I love the cover art imagery, but this detail is distracting. At least the spines spell the whole names out straightforwardly.