The Annihilation Score

audio cd, 1 pages

Published March 15, 2016 by Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing.

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978-1-6644-4895-7
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NOBODY DOES IT BETTER ... Dr Mo O'Brien is an intelligence agent at the top secret government agency known as 'the Laundry'. When occult powers threaten the realm, they'll be there to clean up the mess and deal with the witnesses. But the Laundry is recovering from a devastating attack and when average citizens all over the country start to develop supernatural powers, the police are called in to help. Mo is appointed as official police liaison, but in between dealing with police bureaucracy, superpowered members of the public and disgruntled politicians, Mo discovers to her horror that she can no longer rely on her marriage, nor on the weapon that has been at her side for eight years of undercover work, the possessed violin known as 'Lecter'. If this wasn't bad enough, a mysterious figure known as Dr Freudstein is committing heists and sending increasingly threatening messages to the …

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reviewed The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross (Laundry Files, #6)

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3 stars

The Laundry Files novel I like the least, along with Jennifer Morgue. Even though I still love the series, this book just didn't work for me. This is not really a review as such, it's more of an attempt for me to clarify myself why I feel LF#6 doesn't quite work for me.

The reframing of Bob and Mo's marriage is one thing. Thus far we've had one viewpoint into their relationship, and I thought that they both respect each other. However, Mo's narration makes it clear that she does not respect Bob, at least not at this point in time. And since, as Mr. Stross keeps pointing out, Bob is an unreliable narrator, maybe he doesn't really respect Mo either. Maybe their marriage isn't really working at all and Bob is just lying to himself and the reader. Hell, maybe Bob actually slept with Mhari in LF#5, even though …