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Absolution
by Jeff VanderMeer
This book failed on pretty much every front. The characters were flat and honestly didn't inspire any depth of feeling, the editing was so poor it's like the editor ran it through AI and took a nap, there was so little plot...and what plot there was it was like...okay?? How does this enrich this world in any way? This book did absolutely nothing with respect to adding to the original trilogy, just brought up some familiar faces and threw them away just as fast. What about the cell phone? Why did the book stop right before Lowry returns mostly dead to "our world"? Was that beyond the grasp of an author who used the word fuck every fucking sentence to get across what a fucking meat head egotistical badass of a fucker Lowry was after spending 400 pages inside two dudes heads with nothing happening?
Honestly I've been chasing the dragon since Annihilation hoping Jeff would come up with something good again. But honestly, I'm pretty much put off from ever reading the author again after this book. I genuinely can't believe this grift is what comes out of ten years of thinking about a deeply fascinating world you created.
Honestly I've been chasing the dragon since Annihilation hoping Jeff would come up with something good again. But honestly, I'm pretty much put off from ever reading the author again after this book. I genuinely can't believe this grift is what comes out of ten years of thinking about a deeply fascinating world you created.