#origins by lewis dartnell. on the origin of species. the mountain in the sea

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I finished Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer a couple days ago, maybe a week?

I liked it. But I didn’t like it nearly as much as Annihilation. I liked it more than Authority.

The draw of Annihilation to me is the biologist and her gloriously unreliable narration, and the setting of Area X itself. Large swathes of Acceptance and all of Authority completely lack these draws. So I just don’t find them engaging in the same way.

I recognise their merits, but where Annihilation just completely absorbs me, the sequels feel like harder work and bore me at times.

That being said, there was a part in Acceptance narrated by the biologist, which I absolutely adoredddddd.

I also liked Saul quite a lot, as a character I found him interesting, so I really enjoyed his chapters too.

Control’s I was never going to like, his narration sends me to sleep. The Director’s chapters were inconsistent, sometimes as dull as Control’s but sometimes as engaging as Saul.