Acceptance

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Jeff VanderMeer

The New York Times bestselling final installment of Jeff VanderMeer’s wildy popular Southern Reach Trilogy It is winter in Area X, the mysterious wilderness that has defied explanation for thirty years, rebuffing expedition after expedition, refusing to reveal its secrets. As Area X expands, the agency tasked with investigating and overseeing it--the Southern Reach--has collapsed on itself in confusion. Now one last, desperate team crosses the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. If they fail, the outer world is in peril.Meanwhile, Acceptance tunnels ever deeper into the circumstances surrounding the creation of Area X--what initiated this unnatural upheaval? Among the many who have tried, who has gotten close to understanding Area X--and who may have been corrupted by it?In this last installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, the mysteries of Area X may be solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound--or terrifying.

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Author

Jeff VanderMeer

Pages

352

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published Date

2014-09-02

ISBN

0374710791 9780374710798

Ratings

Google: 4

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"For me, this was not a great ending to the trilogy. It left many questions open that I would’ve loved to have answered. I know he wrote it this way on purpose, but this type of book/series simply isn’t for me. I didn’t expect a happy ending, but I did want answers to my question for the series as a whole. "

Annabella McMillian

"Worst book of the worst trilogy I have ever read. Because it's impossible to spoil a book in which nothing happens, allow me to summarize it for you: Oh, wait, nothing happens. That's it. Book 3 is a series of flashbacks on all the nothing that filled the pages of the first 2 long, self-aggrandizing, pointless books. How did this get published? Incoherent narrative. Rambling reflections that accomplish no plot purposes - oh, wait, no plot! No plot at all! No reason to read these books! Save yourselves!"

Crimson Sparrow

"So many things happening and a lot of questions from "autorithy" answered, i just love every single book from this trilogy, altough the end left me with even more questions."

Little_dreamcatcher

"Finally back on my library's shelf"

A W

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Rook

"I just read a New Yorker review of the Southern Reach trilogy that describes it as "psychedelic nature writing in the tradition of Thoreau." I think that's about as good of a characterization as it gets. This whole series is weird and VanderMeer totally gets all artsy-fartsy at the end and leaves the reader totally unsatisfied. Maybe I just don't get it. There are certainly interesting stylistic choices in the trilogy and there may even be some provocative ideas about man's relationship to nature and to other men. But as a story, the Southern Reach trilogy has a weak finish."