The Annihilation Score - Book Review
The Annihilation Score, by Charles Stross, is a book on the Laundry Files series. The laundry series is about a group of the UK government (The Laundry) that protects the country against Lovecraftian horrors.
In this volume, the narration is for the first time by Mo O'Brien - the wife of the usual main character. What she faces is the start of a breakdown in reality, where common people start getting occult powers, which naturally they view and frame as superpowers and start being supervillans and superheroes.
This is a very, very different path from the usual Laundry series, and tends to be more humorous, with use of slight slapstick comedy in places.
I didn't really like it as much as the rest of the series, and it seemed to drag a little around the middle. It does pick up around the end, which is quite satisfying (and avoids the "it all ends well" with everyone being saved that so many books follow).
In this volume, the narration is for the first time by Mo O'Brien - the wife of the usual main character. What she faces is the start of a breakdown in reality, where common people start getting occult powers, which naturally they view and frame as superpowers and start being supervillans and superheroes.
This is a very, very different path from the usual Laundry series, and tends to be more humorous, with use of slight slapstick comedy in places.
I didn't really like it as much as the rest of the series, and it seemed to drag a little around the middle. It does pick up around the end, which is quite satisfying (and avoids the "it all ends well" with everyone being saved that so many books follow).
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