Acceptance: A Novel (The Southern Reach Series, 3) Paperback – September 2, 2014

This being the final installment to the Southern Reach Trilogy, I enjoyed it immensely!First I enjoyed the first book Annihilation and the sequel Authority, after enjoying the film version 'Annihilation' which I didn't enjoy as much as 'The Southern Reach Trilogy' books.'Acceptance' was such a satisfying ending to me and kind of shocked by the negative reviews but then I felt these stories hit me on a more personal level than I was originally prepared for when I read them. The biologist was my favorite character throughout and I loved getting insight on her along with more characters I thought were forgotten after 'Authority' .While there isn't a huge reveal of anything at the end, I felt you got to know more than I felt was even necessary for the characters and even Area X, which became a character it'self which I really thought was a nice touch. The author gives great depth to what it would be like to encounter Area X and how it started and not necessarily where it came from through his characters.Like I said though I loved this more from a personal battle I've been having with depression and a bad life situation. It was a nice escape into a like mind(biologist) while giving me room to identify myself into something wondrous and weird. Unlike others I wasn't expecting a huge grand reveal on what Area X is/was since even the characters never really could and probably would not. I did not find the end as a huh? moment though like others it made me realize our journeys are as organic as Area X, very much alive and at times different, terrifying but very real. You do get an idea of Area X though, it's all there if you want it to be. Great stories are the ones that don't need to be explained thoroughly but they need to give you the information to figure the ending out for yourself.Seriously I loved this trilogy and I do plan on reading it through again someday! Worth your time if you have a open mind and love Horror-SciFi that requires thought.

Jeff Vandermeer’s Acceptance completes the Southern Reach Trilogy with detailed descriptions and complex sentences, sucking us into a world that’s changing. Here is where we expect answers, demand resolutions to the why those changes occur and what will happen to the major characters: the Biologist, Control, the Lighthouse Keeper, the Psychologist, and her assistant, Grace. Yet here is where we find true changes; changes in perspective on the landscapes of Area X, and changes in point of view.The first book, Annihilation, is written from the first-person point of view of the Biologist on the twelfth expedition into Area X. Authority, the second book, is written from the limited third-person point of view of Control as he struggles in his new position as Director of Southern Reach. As changes have occurred within Area X, the border expanding, the wildlife being absorbed and mutated, so do changes in perspective occur within the book. Acceptance includes multiple points of view: the Biologist’s first-person perspective AND the third-person limited from Control’s eyes. Acceptance adds the third-person point of view through the Lighthouse Keeper and we see the Psychologist’s childhood in ground zero of Area X and learn about the strange Science and Séance Brigade through his eyes. But the changes don’t stop there. A second-person point of view is added which observes the Psychologist prior to the twelfth expedition. The unknown voice speaks directly to the Psychologist and we have to wonder who this new speaker is? We can only assume it is the voice of Area X’s creator, but this is never confirmed. This whole jumping back and forth between different types of viewpoints creates a feeling of unease in the reader and pulls you into the chaos and confusion of those expedition members who came back from Area X different, changed, damage psychologically and physically so that they died in less than a year. All accept for Lowry, who continues his deranged pursuit of conquering Area X from the safe distance of Central…or is it a controlled lab so his own changes can be easily observed?The affect is unnerving as we scramble over these changes in point of view, changes in Area X and changes in us, because of the answers we are compelled to seek. Like Control, who clutches Whitby’s terroir report, we seek answers to our questions: Who or what is behind the changes in Area X? What does it mean for humanity? But like the Lighthouse Keeper’s father told him, “Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt.” So we follow the Lighthouse Keeper into the cryptic world of Area X as it impregnates Earth with – we know not what - and are only partially satisfied with the answers.Answers, like candy, often leave us with more questions, and though this is true in the world of Jeff Vandermeer’s Acceptance, it is perhaps the most original dystopian I have read in a long time. The writing style, the characters and the plot are compelling and definitely worth the read!Rhodes FitzWilliam

Excelente libro, las portadas son geniales y el libro llegó en perfectas condiciones

This book is simply an amazing end to an amazing trilogy. Let's hope the movie can hold the expectation created.

A little more like Annihilation than Authority but still it's own thing.Annihilation (self-discovery, sci-fi mind bender)Authority (Paranoid sci-fi thriller)Acceptance (Horror tinged discovery of what it means to be an individual?)I can't stress how addicting these 3 books are, each time I've sat down with them I read anywhere from 50-80 pages.

Book delivered in good condition.

"Acceptance", das dritte und letzte Buch der Southern-Reach Trilogie, führt die Serie zu einem intensiven Schluss. Es liefert auch Antworten oder doch zumindest Andeutungen zu den offenen Fragen der ersten beiden Teile, z.B. zur Entstehung der Area X. Dabei sind es die verschiedenen Erzählperspektiven, die bei manchen Rezensenten zu Verwirrung führten, die das Buch interessant machen: Wie erlebte der Leuchtturmwärter Saul Evans die Entstehung der Area X? Was passierte mit der Biologin nach "Annihilation"? (Achtung Spoiler: Grandios ist der Brief bzw. das Testament der Biologin über ihre Zeit auf der Insel und die mögliche Wiederbegegnung mit ihrem verschollenen Mann.) Man muss sich allerdings auf die veränderte Erzähltechnik einlassen: Wo "Annihilation" eine treibende Handlung aus der Sicht nur einer Protagonistin hatte, ist "Acceptance" ein Kaleidoskop. Die Antworten, die man erhält, darf man sich allerdings nicht wie eine allwissende Erklärung vorstellen, es gibt keinen Professor Dumbledore, der am Ende alle Fragen in einfachen Worten erläutert. Vielmehr haben einzelne Charaktere jeweils ihren Moment der Erkenntnis, typischerweise wenn sie gerade auf die eine oder andere Art eine besonders enge Verbindung zur Area X haben. Und in manchen Punkten verbleibt am Ende Unsicherheit. Es gibt auch keinen Endkampf oder dergleichen. Das ist dem Buch oder der Trilogie als ganzer aber nicht abträglich - im Gegenteil!