From Goodreads.com:
"Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.
This is the twelfth expedition.
Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, and above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
"Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.
This is the twelfth expedition.
Their group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, and above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.
They arrive 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."
"The first thing I noticed on the staging level before we reached the wider staircase that spiraled down, before we encountered again the words written on the wall...the tower was breathing. The tower breathed, and the walls when I went to touch them carried the echo of a heartbeat...and they were not made of stone but of living tissue."
This is the unsettling story of the twelfth expedition into Area X. What is Area X? We don't know, but something has surely gone wrong there in the past.
I loved nearly everything about this book. The narrator has strong antisocial tendencies which often gave me a little laugh. I loved the writing and more importantly the story. I was drawn in from the start and even more every time something strange happened, which was often. You don't get many answers but there are two more books The Southern Reach Trilogy and I hope to find some there.
I loved nearly everything about this book. The narrator has strong antisocial tendencies which often gave me a little laugh. I loved the writing and more importantly the story. I was drawn in from the start and even more every time something strange happened, which was often. You don't get many answers but there are two more books The Southern Reach Trilogy and I hope to find some there.
I recommend this book if you have an affinity for the eerie or like to read post-apocalyptic books.
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