New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.
341 p. ; 19 cm.
Last month I reviewed Annihilation, the first book in the Southern Reach trilogy, and now I'm posting a short review of book two - Authority.
I really enjoyed the first book in this series, but I found that book two - though good - was not quite as enjoyable to me. In this novel, the pace is much slower, as we follow an investigator sent in to head up and straighten up Southern Reach, the thirty-year old research/military/intelligence installation that borders Area X - the bizarre and threatening bio-zone that featured in book one.
In spite of not finding it as compelling as the first book, it is still good and has managed to do something that few other trilogies have managed to do for me - I'm really curious to read the third and final book in the series. If it is a great conclusion, then book two's slower pace will be well worth it, and I will recommend the whole series to students. If book three is a disappointment, then I'll still recommend book one, but let students decide whether plowing on through to the end was worth it.
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