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Acceptance

By: Jeff VanderMeer
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot, Xe Sands, Carolyn McCormick
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Summary

The third volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy. The Southern Reach trilogy draws to a close and it is winter in Area X.

One last, desperate team embarks across the border, determined to reach a remote island that may hold the answers they've been seeking. As they press deeper into the unknown, the threat to the outside world becomes only more daunting. The mysteries of Area X may have been solved, but their consequences and implications are no less profound – or terrifying.

©2014 Jeff anderMeer 2014 by VanderMeer Creative, Inc. (P)2014 2014 by Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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"I'm loving the Southern Reach Trilogy … Creepy and fascinating." (Stephen King)

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What’s with the weird audio?

I enjoyed the story and the narrators are great. However, it’s like some parts were re-recorded and added back, even mid sentence?

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This book stepped it up a lot

If the second book was a bit slow, this one dives straight into it. Intense from the get go and starting to answer questions.

Only thing I'm not sure on is performance. Voices change sometimes a bit randomly. I don't know if this is intended with how the book is written, maybe it's in a different font or it's just an artifact of the recording.

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perfect

loved it, lived it. I miss it already and will most likely listen to again soon😁

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Audio editing made this a nightmare to listen to

The story itself is fine. No issues there.

Audio editing takes you out of the immersion. It sounds as if, in some places, someone recorded additional lines on their phone and emailed it to the studio. I think in a few places they even had other narrators jump in and record those additional lines.

Some of the narrators were better than others as it seemed like one of them was putting on a voice which they couldn't pull off properly.

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Please re-record!

The reading would periodically slip from one reader’s voice to another, almost as though the original was recorded over - and I don’t mean from one chapter to the next, I mean within sentences. Think there might be a glitch there.
Also, the voiceover for The Biologist’s diary needed to take a breath between full stops!
Overall, I wasn’t satisfied with the entire thing.

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masochism a must

Its a great story but far too rambling. No great reveal at the end but if you read the first two books in the trilogy you probably shouldn't expect one. The performance is the saving grace.

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nice ending to a great trilogy

great narration, story, writing, everything. I love this series and his books. he is one of my favourite authors

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poor production values

Something has happened in the recording of this: there are some badly matched spliced segments which are obvious and distracting.

Performance was good. story purposefully confusing, which makes it hard to follow when you are driving!

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Good trilogy but not enough resolution or answers

Enjoyed the overall trilogy but too many unanswered questions for me. as much as I love having something left to reflect on and work out I felt there was too much that was left unresolved here.

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Great conclusion, dodgy recording...

Satisfying enough, answers some not all questions and hints at others. My only real critique with this is the intermittent recording quality and editing, sometimes changing noticeably mid-sentence.

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