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The Annihilation Score
The Annihilation Score: A Laundry Files Novel | Charles Stross
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Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross presents the next case in The Laundry Files, “a weirdly alluring blend of super-spy thriller, deadpan comic fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror” (Kirkus Reviews). Dominique O’Brien—her friends call her Mo—lives a curious double life with her husband, Bob Howard. To the average civilian, they’re boring middle-aged civil servants. But within the labyrinthian secret circles of Her Majesty’s government, they’re operatives working for the nation’s occult security service known as the Laundry, charged with defending Britain against dark supernatural forces threatening humanity.Mo’s latest assignment is assisting the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the super-powered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing super-pranks instead of super-heroics. The Mayor of London being levitated by a dumpy man in Trafalgar Square would normally be a source of shared amusement for Mo and Bob, but they’re currently separated because something’s come between them—something evil.  An antique violin, an Erich Zann original, made of human white bone, was designed to produce music capable of slaughtering demons. Mo is the custodian of this unholy instrument. It invades her dreams and yearns for the blood of her colleagues—and her husband. And despite Mo’s proficiency as a world class violinist, it cannot be controlled…
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Mo‘s perspective, yay! She and her evil, blood-thirsty violin go toe to toe with an outbreak of superheroes—except the violin also wants to eat her hubby and, well, pretty much everyone else.

Darker than usual. Plus, the cheating plot was hard to swallow from a reader‘s perspective (I vehemently hate those). But it all fit Mo‘s character and the dark place she was spiraling into. I hope things will improve for her in the next installment.

3.75/5

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The Laundry series continues to be great fun.

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Is there any place more tempting than a bookstore? Is there any smell better than a pile of books

Soscha The sound & sensation of the 1st opening of the binding, and the swishing sound the dust cover makes. 8y
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