Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer

In a word, this book is spooky. A giant spooky trip fest. Tracking an expedition made up of members referred to only by their various occupations into an unknown and unfathomable landscape known only as Area X. Yeah the name's kinda corny.

Irrelevant sidenote, I don't think there's a single personal name used in this entire book. I mean, it's only 200ish pages, but still. Huh.

Anyways. Area X is some spooky ass shit. There's hypnotism, and weird ecologies, and everyone is batshit crazy.

The book is written as a journal by the biologist of the expedition, who *spoilers* gets crazier and crazier as the book goes on. This makes it really fucking fascinating, but it can be kind of hard to follow at times.

All in all, I really enjoyed this book. It was not in fact 3spook5me, it was the exact amount of spook that I wanted. In daylight. I picked this up off a recommendation without knowing anything about it, and read it for the first time at 3am. That was a mistake. Don't do that.

As for who I would recommend it to. Um. People who like sci-fi, and who came up to me and said "I want a trippy ass sci-fi crazy spookfest". That's who. If that sounds like fun to you, pick up Annihilation at your local library/bookstore! There's two more books in the series which I plan to read as soon as my library gets them in.

And that's all for Annihilation. Have at it.