The short flashbacks of her youth, of being a refugee, of how she wished her parents didn’t feel like they had to put on a happy face for her all the time, that is how I knew who she was. The biologist became who she is now, because of who she was then.Īnd that’s how I felt about Rachel. Her character wasn’t only who she is right this second, while she is walking through Area X, but it’s all the things she did in her life that got her to be this particular person – the overgrown swimming pool, the tidepools, the isolated introvert-heaven projects, how she felt about herself and the world when she was outside. I got to know the biologist through her flashbacks. Seeing the Annihilation movie reminded me of how much I loved all the flashback scenes in the novel. One of the nice things about read a book that had a lot of hype, a year after it came out, is that I can skip all the obligatory “what this book is about” crap, and get to the meat of what I wanna talk about in this not-a-review. Guess I needed the closure that was the incredible oversensoryoverload scene at the end of Annihilation more than I thought.
Took me a while to get out of The Southern Reach, I guess. This book was on everyone’s Best of the Year list last year, so why did it take me so long to read it? Uhm… i dunno.
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