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Dystopian horror mystery following the events of the first book, Annihilation, as John ‘Control' Rodriguez, the new director of Southern Reach, the agency tasked to study and contain the mysterious and malevolent nature landscape called Area X, takes up his post trying to understand what happened. So this second book in the series had certainly a different vibe from the first book. Even if the weird dreaded atmosphere was still perfectly rendered by the author, this was more reminiscent of Twin Peaks with a fever dream quality and flashes of weirdness with humour. The writing style was still as good as the previous novel, with some gorgeous prose. 
The main character was interesting though I wasn't completely invested into his story, though I did like his yearning for another character. I felt the pacing didn't work completely for me, especially the second part of the book. Still I really liked the first and last parts, and the ending too.  I'm looking forward to read the third book (and will probably check out the fourth that was recently released).