RaveKirkus Review\"Rich Larson’s debut, Annex, is a powerful addition to the post-apocalyptic canon ... While Annex treads familiar ground as far as SFF apocalyptic/locked-story premises go, it shines because of its two protagonists. I loved the novel’s dual narrators — both marginalized voices struggling with their own secrets and dreams ... Of course, the sci-fi elements to the novel are pretty cool, too. (I mean, anytime you’ve got kids as biological hosts for alien parasites you know you’re in for a ride.) While the alien invasion itself is only in its first stage in Annex, as the novel progresses we see that there are larger, more terrifying forces at work. Violet and Bo must fight together to stop the world from ending and to save what they can of their world — even if that means siding with certain enemies. Deftly plotted and packing a few interesting twists, Annex delivers — and there’s lots of room for more in the series. In Book Smugglerish, eight wriggling parasites out of ten.\
