A review by mtstellens
Acceptance by Jeff VanderMeer

2.0

Not quite Lovecraft. I liked the way that the narrative skipped around between perspectives, and we got some of Area X before it was Area X, but the other books weren’t scary or didn't give enough questions to uncover for the answers to feel satisfying. I think that this series was kind of a let down. I liked the lighthouse keeper (future Crawler), his descent into madness. It was a good change because I feel like so many things happened just off screen. Another reason why I liked the encounter with the biologist, now a terrifying sea monster thing. I think that this book got somewhat bogged down in the metaphor and lost the horror which caused it to fail at both the horror and the deeper meaning under the horror. But the ending of not knowing if Area X was expanding was a good ending.