Authority

It's been a bit since I read Annihilation, but I'm surprised at how different this is from that! Nearly a totally different genre. Yet, the story picks up more or less where Annihilation ended.

I definitely had more fun with Annihilation. This book tries to feel a little more John Le Carre and doesn't really get it, IMO. I had a hard time suspending my disbelief when it came to some aspects of the organization management / roles / responsibilities drama (which takes up a lot of this book). When we start using codenames like Control, Central, Voice, etc., some of the spy novelty wears off. Can't say why, but it becomes far less interesting, to me. For example, there are a few things that are in question throughout big parts of the book (who ix X, what is Y, stuff like that). Yet, when they're revealed, I am never that surprised.

The final third of the book is worth the much slower first third. The middle third is a transitional space. Once we get a bit nearer the ‘weird fiction' of it all, the suspense elements return and it is far more interesting.

I'll be interested to see how the third book continues on. It is clearly setup and that bodes well for a compelling beginning. I wish this had been a bit shorter. I also bumped upon the author's use of sentence fragments as illustration's of internal thought or whatever. I'm not sure if this featured so prominently in Annihilation, but I noticed it big time in Authority.