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ClareR (5879 KP) rated Absolution in Books
May 30, 2025
After reading Annihilation, I jumped straight to Absolution - I haven’t read the second and third books, but they’re sat on my kindle!
Annihilation is in three parts: Dead Town (20 years before Area X); The False Daughter (18 months before Area X), which deals with the aftermath of what happened in Dead Town; and The First and Last, the first formal expedition into Area X, 18 months before its creation.
This is a weird and wonderful book: experimental, jam packed with horror and it left me constantly on edge. How on Earth someone can come up with these ideas, I have no idea. I’m certainly glad that Jeff VanderMeer is around and writing novels like this, though!
Annihilation is in three parts: Dead Town (20 years before Area X); The False Daughter (18 months before Area X), which deals with the aftermath of what happened in Dead Town; and The First and Last, the first formal expedition into Area X, 18 months before its creation.
This is a weird and wonderful book: experimental, jam packed with horror and it left me constantly on edge. How on Earth someone can come up with these ideas, I have no idea. I’m certainly glad that Jeff VanderMeer is around and writing novels like this, though!
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