![]() ![]() The reader has more information than anyone, understands when a character says, for example, “I found it in the attic.” what they are really referring to even if no one else does. Area X infested my dreams every night I was reading and they were some of the most unpleasant I can recall in recent memory, and I dream pretty vividly. ![]() Few series have haunted me the way Southern Reach has. There are small revelations that will rock you, sentences so sharp you’ll bleed from their passage. In this case an entire government agency is formed and ends up being corrupted by what they were created to investigate. Stories of horror that are not so much about gore, but about the effect an event has on the people involved and how they deal with it. These are the kinds of books I find myself drawn to. It’s an ecological disaster story at heart but spends considerable amount of time examining the people and things that are exposed to the mysterious Area X and detailing the effects it has on them. The trilogy is LOST crossed with an apocalyptic Lovecraft scenario. Southern Reach Trilogy is a smart and scary science fiction story that offers literate thrills for those willing to stick through it. “Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead…” ![]()
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