Authority
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.5
(675)
Jeff VanderMeer
After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all signs of civilization—has been a series of expeditions overseen by a government agency so secret it has almost been forgotten: the Southern Reach. Following the tumultuous twelfth expedition chronicled in Annihilation, the agency is in complete disarray. John Rodrigues (aka "Control") is the Southern Reach's newly appointed head. Working with a distrustful but desperate team, a series of frustrating interrogations, a cache of hidden notes, and hours of profoundly troubling video footage, Control begins to penetrate the secrets of Area X. But with each discovery he must confront disturbing truths about himself and the agency he's pledged to serve. In Authority, the second volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach trilogy, Area X's most disturbing questions are answered . . . but the answers are far from reassuring.
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Author
Jeff VanderMeer
Pages
352
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Date
2014-05-06
ISBN
0374710783 9780374710781
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"While reading I got confused at times and I think it was because of his writing style. It read like a thriller to me at times too but it was due to the nature of the main character. However, the book is definitely creepy all right. For me the ending was great and it made me want to continue on reading. #3 of the southern reach trilogy here I come."
WT
"Very slow until the very end. Honestly was confused by most of what was going on until the end as well. Really hoping the next book in this trilogy wraps up all the loose ends from the first and second book. "
Annabella McMillian
"This is quickly becoming the worst trilogy I have ever read. There is one more book to redeem this mess, but I am not hopeful."
Crimson Sparrow
"Left me feeling genuinely paranoid. Not for everybody, but it was basically my perfect book"
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Allyson Bopp
"I didn’t even finish it, soooo boring compared to annihilation "
justo
"speculative world, writing style, characters, mystery"
M B
Mary Bartel
"You may think you're a Control, but you're actually a Whitby"
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"<b><i>HOLY ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</i></b> This was SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! It took me while to get into, but once I did, I was Hooked and didn't want it to end (hence why it's taken me over a month to read, that and school lmao)!!!!!!!!! I have too many feelings that are inexorable to articulate, but this series and the way it was written feels So so familiar and comfortable to me!!!!!!!!!!"
Rook
"This book is just as creepy & nerve-wracking as "Annihilation" but is set in an office scene with really strange & a little off employees. This is the 2nd book in the trilogy & I loved it as much as the first book...now on to #3!"
Tracy Walters
"Also very strange, but significantly more sinister and haunting. Most of the story takes place in the headquarters of the Southern Reach and we get a more traditional suspense novel filled with interpersonal intrigue. The tone and style of this book is much more conventional than the first. I still have no idea where this series is going to end up."
Max Nova
