A review by grayola
Authority by Jeff VanderMeer

4.0

In exchange for Annihilation's pitch-perfect, clinical horror, Authority treats the events of the first book as the set-up for a detective procedural. New characters bring with them questionable motives, and the specter of the first book looms over the story, infecting every new detail with the kind of conspiring paranoia that made the twelfth expedition so horrifying. Still, the shift in storytelling—at least personally—left me pining for the simpler, cold thrills of the first book.