RE: REVIEW: Authority by Jeff VanDerMeer - the sequel to Annihilation
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I'm kinda annoyed I'm not neck and neck with you here, as I haven't finished it - I found myself drifting too much with the audio and it wasn't keeping my attention. It did read like admin fiction which I didn't even know was a thing, until I named it.
I think a lot of people found this tedious - I got the second two from the library but there's not much pull for me to read this, unless the third one pulls it all together. Still, there's so many interesting themes here about post colonisation, identity, and the environment that I'd like to persist.
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You've got plenty of time to catch up. I'm still struggling through Children of Time - not because it is boring, but because I think I would prefer to hear the story of one perspective, then the other, instead of the parallel chapters which are obviously going to converge at some point.
The more I reflect on certain things from the 2nd book, the more I think I like it. The protagonist, Control (while is mostly an unlikeable drone) - is a hard perspective to choose for the avenue of story telling. I have both the 3rd and 4th books currently loaned to me, but I refuse to start until I get through Children of Time! I've got a busy day, today, I think!