Acceptance

I'm amazed by the author's skill to answer all my nagging questions without being explicit. It actually felt like I almost figured it all out by myself.

I read the trilogy as a single-edition hardback and I have to say I don't really get why it was released as 3 separate books. Marketing, I guess? This FSG edition is amazing and it felt like a very well-structured, very long novel in 3 parts.

There are so many things I loved about the whole trilogy (the expeditions, the nature writing, the mystery and the hair-raising unexpected details, I could go on) that at times it felt like Vandermeer peered into my head and took some old terrors out as part of his research. I spent years as a kid being paranoid about getting a splinter that would turn me into someone else, like the splinter from H.C. Andersen's tales. Vandermeer made me re-live that horror, bless him.