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Are you trying to decide what book to read next? Want to know more about what your friends are reading? Well, you've come to the right place.  Here you can find book reviews from Nassau County library staff members, and you can share your feelings about particular books in the comments.  Let us help you find your next favorite book today!

Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer

6/25/2014

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A biologist, an anthropologist, a surveyor, and a psychologist walk into Area X, a strange land with a swampy ecosystem not unlike Florida.  They are part of the twelfth expedition into the area, sent to document their findings and write journals about their experiences but with no other real instructions.  The group quickly finds a strange “tower” that contains words written in a strange moss and probably the person (or creature) who is writing those words.  The biologist feels compelled to find out who or what this being is, but first she must survive her teammates, who are dying off one by one.

Everything is very very vague in this book, and it is absolutely fascinating.  The characters are there doing things, but those things really don't matter so much; the important thing is this Area X and what happened to it and why people are exploring it and what its buried secrets are.  And oh, boy, are there a lot of buried secrets.  This is the first in a trilogy, all of which are out this year, and I can’t wait to see what happens next.

--Alison McCarty, Callahan Branch Library

Find Annihilation in the Nassau County Public Library System catalog.

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