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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

21 reviews

eatyourenglish's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Suicide

Moderate: Alcoholism and Animal death

bibliosexual's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual content, Animal death, Violence, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Cancer and Alcoholism

keegan53's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This book is the kind of book that makes you stop, ask yourself “what the heck did I just read”, and reread the sentence. I mean this in the best possible way. Annihilation is such a mind-bending story. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Violence, Murder, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Sexual content, Self harm, Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Bullying, and Suicide

A note on the body horror:

Spoiler

things that should not be made out of flesh are made out of flesh

lordofdisorder's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, and Confinement

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Alcoholism

itisnatal's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror and Blood

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, and Bullying

mosshaunt's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

sometimes i found the text confusing, and either too detailed or not detailed enough, but i feel that is the most appropriate way to experience the world of area x, in the same way the biologist is compelled into it.

would i say it is incredible? no. but because of its flaws, i loved it.

sidenote: multiple major characters are confirmed to not be white in the sequel, but it is not brought up in this book at all.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Body horror

Moderate: Violence and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, and Sexual content

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Gun violence, Mental illness, Body horror, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Cancer, Alcohol, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Blood, Infidelity, Animal death, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Self harm

Minor: Child death and Physical abuse

Further warning for descriptions of drowning, and a very brief mention of child-on-child sexual abuse.

the_great_tumbleweed's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No

5.0

This is definitely the spookiest scifi I've read - the mysteriousness and hostility of the setting and its impact on the characters is so pleasingly creepy! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Murder, Body horror, and Suicide

boglord's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Gun violence, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death, Alcohol, and Cancer

marareading's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.0

This book was not for me. The beginning was so interesting.  This sci-fi just didn't work for me.

In this book Area X had been cut off by a strange border from the world for decades. The government has been sending expeditions of varying types to try to explore, and non are fully successful... and apparently not in the way they think. No one returns the same. 

We are following the Biologist's perspective (along with an anthropologist and psychologist) on the recent expedition. This is an all female expedition.  One of my issues is the male author writing the perspective of a female and her emotions... it just didn't land for me. I also don't think I got what he was trying to do with Area X. Metaphor maybe? There was too much that just wasn't there for me. Too much was unexplained. I likely won't continue with the trilogy

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Murder, Blood, Gun violence, Violence, Death, and Gore

Minor: Alcoholism