I was left cold by Annihilation and had mostly written off the series before reading a comment on the sub about how Authority is more like a bureaucratic nightmare zone. Hell yeah!

I'm glad I gave the series another shot; Authority is when you watch the disaster from the other side of the glass, and it's impossible to know how bad things get when you aren't part of the response yourself. While some of the obfuscation felt goofy (really? your childhood nickname is Control?), I happily read this book in two days. If anything, I would have preferred even more office politics; I started skimming when we were back to nature.