Acceptance

Written by Jeff VanderMeer

Narrated by Carolyn McCormick and Bronson Pinchot

It is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the
border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have
been left behind. As they press deeper into the unknown-navigating new terrain
and new challenges-the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting.

In the final installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy, the
mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and
implications are no less profound-or terrifying.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Blackstone Audio
• Release date: Sep 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781483016009

Jeff VanderMeer

Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America’s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year’s-best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.

Reviews for Acceptance

[James Hamm · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I read this book and it piqued my interest however, after continuing on and listened to the 2nd and 3rd books from Audible, I was profoundly disappointed. The story-line is often cast aside for seemingly unending harangues on inner struggles and confusion, which only serve to confuse the story. These glutted interludes of internal conflict also serve to slow the story to a listless pace that is aggravating and boring. The story becomes so convoluted and protracted that in the end, after the last book is done, you know little more about the plot that when you began.

The writing is exhausting, banal and turgid. So much is invested in examining the characters minds where ideas, perceptions and memories stream like a kind of hyper, insane free association. These inflated schizophrenic prose, retard the stories progress and dilute understanding and meaning.

To add insult to injury, in the end, after drudging through this trilogy of literary muck, you are no closer to resolution than you were in the first chapter of book one. I'm left feeling duped when I consider the hours invested in reading and listening to this prosaic, numbing chronicle of designless prose. I wouldn't recommend this book or the full trilogy to my worst enemy.