Book Thoughts: The Southern Reach series

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I picked up Annihilation, the first book of the Southern Reach series, at the end of November last year. It took less than a week to read, with me staying up late a few nights in a row so I could keep reading. I haven't been that engrossed in a book in almost a decade and a half. I genuinely felt like a kid again.

I finished the rest of the series in the first week of February. While I got through the first three books fairly quickly, it took me around two weeks to read Absolution. I definitely think I was less invested in it than in the trilogy; I thought that Acceptance wrapped things up nicely. Absolution didn't quite feel like filler, but I think I would have been equally as satisfied with the series if it didn't exist.