The Nightmare Stacks: A Laundry Files novel

Loved this.

I was a bit worried that bob was becoming a bit over powered, and this would be a bit of a pants novel, but Alex as a great protagonist and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This is probably my favourite in the series so far too the whole business with the bureaucracy was totally spot on, the mix of old and new characters.

Read it!

Had a trans character in that wasn't terribly written in it too which was nice.

A great, fun read in this series. Alex, the twenty-something PHANG narrator, is a mostly self-centered, semi-competent young man trying to navigate his condition, his low-paid, involuntary civil service position at The Laundry, and living in the same city as his parents. Oh, and his new girlfriend is a member of the non-human invading force.

And...PHANGs have a counting compulsion! the invaders look like Tolkein elves! My greatest disappointment was the lack of thunder and lightning when Alex completed a compulsive count. Perhaps we get the big finish if he says the answer aloud.

While I miss Bob's POV, I've enjoyed seeing things from Mo's perspective (#6) and now this entry from Alex. I'd love to see Pete as a narrator, or Pinky, or Brain. Maybe the next entry in the series will have multiple POVs...no, wait, I can't wait 5+ years for #8.

The Laundry Files are fun again.

Less bureaucracy more alien in a strange land.

We leave our high ranking heroes from previous books to follow in the footsteps of younger characters more on the tactical rather than the strategic level.

With one of the major characters giving us the adversaries view point and vinyets into officers view points, we are in on the plans and the assets involved. No deus ex machina here. No sudden twist out of left field.

The fun is in seeing the moguls and wizards trying to cope with the bizarre and in rooting for the home team.