“ You note again not just the musculature of this woman but the fact that she’s willing to complicate even the simple business of stating her name. The insight into characterization provides more interest than in it did in the first two books thankfully so, as the plotting explodes, much like a cell line on the upswing of reproduction (apparently a recent TED talk on angiogenesis is leaking in). The story also flows back and forth in time, filling in the stories of people introduced, backgrounds and events alluded to but never explained. The narrative is done well enough that the separate voices do not feel disjointed, but I warn you: pay attention to chapter titles, as they say who is speaking. The narrative switches between Ghost Bird and Control, last met in Authority Saul, the lighthouse keeper the psychologist Gloria, and perhaps one or two others that slip in. I could hear the fracturing of its melting as if it came from miles and years away.”Īnd once again, Area X takes center stage in the last book of The Southern Reach Trilogy.
“ The fifth morning I rose from the grass and dirt and sand, the brightness had gathered to form a hushed second skin over me, that skin cracking from my opening eyes like the slightest, the briefest, touch of an impossibly thin later of ice. Once again, Vandermeer astonishes me with evocative, symbolic language: November 2014 Recommended for fans of sci-fi, hallucinogenic fiction ★ ★ ★ ★
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