This is the follow-up to Annihilation and before Acceptance in the Southern Reach Trilogy. We follow Control who is taking over as the director of the Southern Reach as he is trying to figure out what has been happening in Area X. The relationship with the first book is minimal and it does not answer many of the questions from Book 1 and asks a few more of its own. I guess that all we be answered in Book 3 (I sincerely hope).
I wish that all 3 books would have been issued as a single book because on their own the books make little sense.
I wish that all 3 books would have been issued as a single book because on their own the books make little sense.
Authority is a very different book than Annihilation but no less wonderful. The writing is still incredibly beautiful, the pacing remains almost tortuously slow (which adds to the ambiance and tension), Control is a great protagonist. I'm concerned that Acceptance is going to be unable to suitably wrap-up what Vandermeer has started here and I'll have to knock off stars, but why worry about the future when the first two books have been so good?
