The stories are what you'd expect from VanderMeer. I enjoyed going back to beginning of his writing career after having already read the majority of his works. So many of the spores that colonize the other novels can be found growing and mutating within the grotesquely beautiful new weird landscape of Veniss.

Bronson Pinchot absolutely nailed their portion of the narration. He was fantastic in his parts for Ambergris and Area X, but this was next level. Just when I was feeling completely lost in the incomprehensibly weird atmospheres of Veniss, the narration allowed me to feel my way into an understanding that my logical mind just couldn't fit into.