Season of Skulls (A Novel in the World of the Laundry Files), by Charles Stross (Tor)
I’ve loved “The Laundry Files” by Charles Stross since the first
adventure, a delicious blend of spy action adventure and Lovecraftian horror,
with a dry sense of humor and a touch of romance. The series begins in a
present-day world where magic is a branch of computational mathematics (i.e.,
if you get sufficiently powerful computers, they tap into magic, often with
results you really, really don’t want, like awakening ancient powers and
opening gates to other dimensions). Now, many volumes later, Britain is under “New
Management” and the Prime Minister is an Elder God of terrifying power. Eve
Starkey, once the hyperorganized assistant to an unscrupulous magician, is just
trying to get her life back and stay under the radar…and fails at both.
This latest installment has all the tension, wit, and quirky
imagination of its predecessors, but with a bit more, very satisfying romance
thrown in. Poor Eve has been through so much, and her ex-boss, perhaps
not-so-ex-husband is such a loathsome toad, she deserves a little happiness in the
end. Stross delivers all this and more.
Great fun for lovers of the series
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