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Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The twelfth expedition arrives expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers. They discover a massive topographic anomaly and life-forms that surpass understanding. But it's the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.
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3 primary booksSouthern Reach is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2014 with contributions by Jeff VanderMeer.
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Very Lovecraftian. Great gradually building sense of dread. Had no idea this was a movie?
3.5 - atmospheric and weird but kinda struggled to hold my attention
This was so good! The writing is beautiful and the place is so bizarre and almost haunting. I wish I didn't have to wait for the next one from the library.
While I didn't really dig the structure of the book, the ideas and the mood it conveyed kept it interesting enough to go on to read the next book, which was a better read for me. Still, I love me some mood-setting in horror-ish books. This is fairly clearly the first in a trilogy, but it also feels like a stand-alone story, which I appreciate.
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