Authority (Southern Reach, #2)

author: Jeff VanderMeer

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.65

book published: 2014

rating: 4

read at: 2015/03/09

date added: 2015/03/09

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'Authority' picks right up after 'Annihilation' in the Southern Reach Trilogy. While it clears some things up a bit from the first book, it definitely remains as weird and mysterious as the first book. By the end, the reader may have as many or more questions than after the first book.



While the first book focused on the biologist exploring Area X, this book features a character named Control who is stationed at the Southern Reach. He has taken over for the director, who was on the last expedition to Area X. He finds odd things in her office, like a plant living in a locked drawer, some strange waterlogged files, a wall with bizarre writing, and lots of bugs (as in listening devices). The people around him are quirky, and his boss is a thundering voice booming profanities at him at odd intervals. Through all this, he has to interrogate a person who has survived Area X and is simply known as 'Ghost Bird.' And what's with the bunny on the cover?



The book is about as strange as the first one, and the mysteries are slow to unravel, if they do at all. By the end, I still wanted to go on, but if you read for the first one and didn't care for the style, then this won't be an improvement for you. As for me, I'm on to book 3.





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