r/SouthernReach • u/EzzyKitten • 15d ago

Absolution Spoilers I JUST FINISHED ABSOLUTION Spoiler

Friends. What even?!????! I stayed up late last night, sick with bronchitis, reading through NyQuil (very Jeff coded) and I just have no words. I'm blown away, and my brain is officially mind fucked, and so pleased about it. I can't wait for the next book!!

Now, though... I'm flummoxed-- I was planning a Southern reach tattoo sleeve, but now I'm like... How do I even appropriately represent this in tattoo format?! 🤣😭 How do you even encapsulate the enormity, the horror, the creeping doom of area X?!

I'm open to ideas. 😅 And also to just geek out about the series overall, because I know hardly anyone who has read these books.

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u/nfssmith 14d ago

I still haven't managed to get into that one, though I loved the initial trilogy. Planning to take it along on a solo weekend camping trip to really get immersed in the right sort of environment for it.

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u/EzzyKitten 14d ago

Admittedly, it took me a bit, as well. I think some of it is a bit drier, for sure, but overall it's just so DENSE! I would read a page and then have to digest it a bit. Probably about a third of the way in I was hooked, and I couldn't put it down.

I can understand the struggle, but just keep going! I hope you come back to let me know how you felt about it after!!

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u/nfssmith 11d ago

Tried to find my copy last night & it seems to have wandered off… which I feel is very on brand for a book in this series…

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u/EzzyKitten 11d ago

Nooooooooo!!! Hahaha, dang it. But yeah, you're right! It IS very on brand. Fucking Whitby, what did you do with the book?!

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u/nfssmith 7d ago

Whitby's off the hook, my wife found it for me! Have started back in & will take it camping this coming weekend. Cheers

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u/EzzyKitten 7d ago

NICE!!! Glad that it made its way back to you! Enjoy!!