Four women—a biologist, an anthropologist, a psychologist, and a surveyor—are sent on an expedition into the mysterious Area X. Previous expeditions either come back changed or don't come back at all, and the border between Area X and the rest of the world is expanding. The book follows the biologist, a loner determined to find out what her husband experienced in the eleventh expedition, and determined to find out everything she can about the laws of nature-defying Area X.This book was creepy creepy creepy. I loved it. I was impatient to finish each page; like the biologist, I just wanted to understand as much about Area X as I could before I ran out of time, or rather pages. The book was very Lovecraftian in its creeping sense of dread and the gradual revelations about the horrors of the lighthouse and the wall-scrawling creature that lurked in the Tower. The biologist was the perfect narrator for us to follow into this world—intelligent, focused, driven—and the parallels in the discoveries she made about Area X and her relationship with her husband were emotionally resonant in a character that could easily have been dismissed as cold and emotionless.
I was so excited to read that the rest of the trilogy would be published in 2014 as well! A.
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