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Authority

AuthorityAuthority By Jeff VanderMeer

Series: The Southern Reach Trilogy #2

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on May 6, 2014

Rating: three-half-stars

Cover image and summary from Goodreads:

The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy

For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area Xβ€”a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, the Southern Reach is in disarray, and John Rodriguez (aka β€œControl”) is the team’s newly appointed head. From a series of interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and more than two hundred hours of profoundly troubling video footage, the secrets of Area X begin to reveal themselvesβ€”and what they expose pushes Control to confront disturbing truths about both himself and the agency he’s promised to serve.

Possible spoiler alert

This is the sequel to Annihilation, which I loved. I picked this book up as soon as possible after finishing book one.

So much of what I loved about the first book was missing from this sequel. The story followed new characters in a different setting, which was jarring at first because I wanted to be back in Area X with the biologist.

However, Authority answered many questions that I had while reading Annihilation – and then it raised more questions!

I’m really excited to read Acceptance and finish the series. This wasn’t a super satisfying read, because it raised as many questions as it answered, but it maintained the unsettling, tense feeling that I had while reading the first book. Now it’s time to finish the series!

three-half-stars

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