I really liked VanderMeer's Annihilation, though I thought the other two in that trio were lesser books. So I was really keen to try another. I didn't read the jacket copy and figured it'd be sci-fi, and maybe it sort of had elements of sci-fi here and there. But mostly it felt like an overwrought attempt to write sort of a hard-boiled detective novel. It really did not work for me. I skimmed the last third or so of the novel.