Annihilation

In many ways breaks some rules I expect. Characters only known by their role serving some common purpose which beyond exploration they barely know. Difficult to see beyond their roles make connections but then they are not meant to either. Team in enemy or hostile territory but nothoing about them speaks of a team other than some purpose that if they dont know neither do you as reader. So as reader you are walking with the protagonists. Viewpoint of the Biologist. Her understanding, her knowledge she distrusts even the landscape around her and the little she does know from previous expeditions unclear how given that she knows few have returned and this is the 12th expedition.

A difficult read. Little to attract the reader to other characters and not much to sympathize with the Biologist. But it is a mystery. Shades of Lovecraft and his narrators.

Unsatisfactory ending. I and the Biologist know more or have experienced more but have no more significant understanding than perhaps how survival may be possible. So i immediately start the second in the series and am irritated early in that it seems I could have started reading here. But it drags me on. I want answers . What is Area X or rather the Why of it.

Definitely worth reading.