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** spoiler alert ** DNF at 69%. I loved the original southern reach trilogy. I even have a signed copy. But this was a pale follow up. The first story about a character named Old Jim is fine but fairly dull and lacking in the weirdness of the original books. And when it finally got weird it was nonsensical and obtuse.

But the real problem starts with the section called The First and The Last. We move onto a different character and story and it’s not an exaggeration to say that every third word was “fuck��. This went on for 40+ plus pages and it made it impossible to follow any semblance of a plot. I don’t know what Vandameer was thinking but this was terrible. I couldn’t keep reading it simply because I didn’t know what I was reading. I wanted to like this book I really did. I followed Jeff’s updates and ordered it soon as it was available. My day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable.