The Annihilation Score

audio cd, 1 pages

Published by Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing.

ISBN:
978-1-6644-4895-7
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4 stars (2 reviews)

"Mo's latest assignment is to assist the police in containing an unusual outbreak: ordinary citizens suddenly imbued with extraordinary abilities of the superpowered kind. Unfortunately these people prefer playing super-pranks instead of performing super-heroics"--

5 editions

reviewed The annihilation score by Charles Stross (Laundry files novel -- 6)

Review of 'The annihilation score' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

Goddam, this book is a disappointment.

After N books of Bob Howard's Laundry, it should be interesting to see Mo O'Brian's Laundry, and see the world through Mo's eyes. Unfortunately, in this book the role of Mo has been filled by Bridget Jones.

Just once, I would love to see a book where the middle aged female protagonist doesn't have a hunky co-worker she finds hard to resist, while her absent husband and struggling marriage labor on in the background. Or find herself in a contrived situation that requires her to work with her husband's ex-girlfriends. It's.... derivative.

This is made worse by the static nature of the plot. The premise of the book is that Mo's and her team is in the middle of London, on call to put down third tier supervillains. Mo never escape this. She never figures out who Freudstein is on her own. She never …