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    The Annihilation Score

    Written by Charles Stross

    Narrated by Caroline Guthrie

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    About this audiobook

    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 police. Who is Freudstein and what is he planning?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLittle, Brown (Hachette UK) Audio
    Release dateJun 9, 2016
    ISBN9781405535359
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    The Annihilation Score
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    Charles Stross

    Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but now writes full-time. To date, Stross has won two Hugo awards and been nominated twelve times. He has also won the Locus Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best Novella and has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke and Nebula Awards. He is the author of the popular Merchant Princes and Empire Games series, set in the same world. In addition, his fiction has been translated into around a dozen languages. Stross lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife Feorag, a couple of cats, several thousand books, and an ever-changing herd of obsolescent computers.

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    • 3/5
      I probably shouldn't have jumped directly from the first book to the sixth, but it was on the shelf in the library and I was helpless.
    • 4/5
      I liked this, but then I am an unapologetic fanboy of the Laundry Files. This book has Mo as a narrator, and her voice is very different from Bobs, which may not appeal to others. The superhero plot is just a thin veneer over the heavy Lovercraftian ooze, which is the way things are meant to be in this series, but I could easily see a three volume spin-off series with the Stross/Laundry Files take on super-heroes.
    • 4/5
      Slight spoilers

      An interesting turn in the series, I loved seeing this from Mo's point of view. So glad I found this series.
    • 4/5
      It's Mo's turn to be the protagonist. Nice to have someone other than Bob's perspective (including on Bob), and more details about the white violin was interesting. The climax, while suitably dramatic, didn't deliver significant surprises.
    • 3/5
      For this book we get almost no Bob since he is putting out fires from the conclusion of the previous book. This starts right at the end of the previous book with Mo being the POV character. And it is a nice change of pace. Mo works for the Laundry and has a cover as a music professor which is useful since she wields a demonic violin that is trying to take over her and kill Bob.
      As things get closer to the end times there is an up swell in magic that causes people to believe they have superpowers. When Mo accidentally gets outed to the public on the news while trying to stop some new super villain she is put in charge of a new division in the government to recruit and train superheroes. And she is still working for the Laundry at the same time while still possibly trying to keep her marriage afloat with Bob.
      The book ends in typical fashion for this series leaving wanting more. Mo as the central character was good and now I’m wondering if she will be continue to be the main focus or will it go back to Bob.
    • 4/5
      This is the first Laundry Files book told from Mo’s perspective, but Mo as presented by Stross is basically her husband with a greater focus on bureaucratic procedure. I’m not sure that the world needed a Lovecraft homage where essentially all the action involves forming a task force and engaging in bureaucratic infighting (as the stars get ever closer to coming right and the apocalypse draws nigh), but it’s kind of hilarious to have one exist. Definitely advances the plot a fair amount; I would have preferred it if Mo had a more distinctive voice, but I’m still interested to see what happens next.
    • 4/5
      If you have not read the the previous books in the series do not pass go, do not collect $200, and go back to the start.While the other reviews posted probably tell you all you need to know to me, in some ways, this is the real culminating point of "The Atrocity Archives." This is as Dominique O'Brien's relationship with the Laundry and the instrument she bears comes to a head and literally threatens to consume her, while it turns out that other British government agencies have their own concepts of how to face the coming paranormal apocalypse. That said I'm not sure the sense of this being a commentary on Bob Howard's inadequacies quite works out, in that for all the point that he is not as good a man as he thinks he is seems quite besides the point in the face of the emergency that Stross posits in this series; particularly when much of this book is about disaster ensuing because of people who have the exact wrong idea of how to proceed.
    • 3/5
      Still enjoyable, and the shift to Mo's viewpoint was an interesting change--but the superhero angle is almost completely obscured by the rest of the plot. Mix of humor and dread that characterized the early Laundry books a bit lacking.
    • 4/5
      I really like Mo as a character, so it was exciting to get a book from her perspective, delving further into her world both violin-related and not. The plot twist at the end was totally unexpected, and I liked how it was resolved.