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(First time posting with the “paste-in” content from my goodreads comments, we’ll see how it goes, although I note the formatting is strange. Also, remember buying this book via the goodreads books doesn’t do the BallardCornersPark.org any good – hint, hint.)

The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross

My review

rating: 2 of 5 stars
A nice little short story (Pimpf) at the end of this novel deserves a 3.

This is a return to the Laundry for Stross, and I really, really, want to like it. But I can’t really like it. The story is kind of cool (can’t say much without spoiling the plot), the main characters (Bob, Romana, Mo) are good, the writing is ok-ish. The blend of Lovecraftian horrors in a modern British bureaucracy is genius (as in the Atrocity Archives).

The damned modern-day-caught-in-the-moment-I’d-like-to-be-a-hacker-and-throw-in-computer-buzzwords-and-have-a-main-character-who-thinks-a-geek-should-dress-in-black-ness of it all lets it down for me. And there are lot of British Civil Service and Secret Service CAPITALS.

Annoying. Sorry Charlie.

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