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The Annihilation Score

A Laundry Files Novel

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The Annihilation Score

By: Charles Stross
Narrated by: Carolina Guthrie
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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?

©2015 Charles Stross (P)2016 Hachette Audio Espionage Science Fiction Spies & Politics Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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it would've been nice if the narrator had checked the in-universe pronunciation of some words

Pronunciation

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I love all of these books but the narration of this one is terrible Ihad to skip half of the book and move on to the next.

Dreadful narrator

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Story good but a few too many long descriptions of police/management procedures. Narrator good when she stuck to her own accent. Other accents ranged from middling to so awful it was painful to listen to!

Good but not the best in series

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This is the continuation of the Laundry Files, only this time it's from the female perspective as Mo.
The story is great as usual, however I found it slow for the first few hours.
The ending was great, dramatic with several reveals.

Onwards and upwards, continues the story

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Nice continuation of the story.

The narrator is ok, but there are some “interesting” accents. I also found it a little shrill in places….. I wish audible had a way of pitching the sound down without slowing it down! I often listen at night to go to sleep to, so quite like a mellow narrator 🤣

There were some very out of place sex scenes in the book. They were unnecessarily detailed given what the book is about generally. I’m not quite sure what they were about story wise (it didn’t forward plot, or add anything to the characters…. And it wasn’t “sexy enough” to be for the audiences benefit ….. it’s not mills and boon 🙄)…. I always think leaving that sort of thing to the readers imagination is much more effective (we can all fill in the details for ourselves)! Also would be pretty inappropriate for a younger teen to read ( I know these books arn’t aimed at teens, but this is exactly the kind of thing I was reading at 12/13).

Overall not my favourite of the series, but I did enjoy it generally

Not the best in the series but still good

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