Authority

I listened to this second entry in the mind blowing Area X (now) quadrilogy last summer when the consequential US election was looming (see my review on "Authority" for more about this.) It's taken me months to write this review and now that the results are known, the theme of an unrecognizable, destructive force moving across the US landscape feels more apt than ever. The narration is excellent as it helps bring to life the more cloak and dagger, intrigue rich plot of the first 2/3's of the story. The story accelerates - getting creepier and wilder in the final third. The relatively dry, mysterious aspects of the start are worth navigating through to get to the ripping conclusion of this 2nd entry in what was initially a triology unlike any I'd ever read (ornlistemed to) Otherworldly, yet so very familiar as well.