eBook, 391 pages
English language
Published Feb. 12, 2023 by Orbit.
Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain's avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.
Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. At least, she has reason to hope he's dead. But though she's now in charge of the Bigge Corporation, she's not free of him yet. Through the fecklessness of her brother Imp, combined with the intricate feudal law of a tiny Channel Island, it would appear that unbeknownst to her, she was married to Bigge--and that proving his death and releasing herself from his arcane bindings will take years and cost ā¦
Welcome to the sunlit uplands of the 21st century! Britain's avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much.
Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. At least, she has reason to hope he's dead. But though she's now in charge of the Bigge Corporation, she's not free of him yet. Through the fecklessness of her brother Imp, combined with the intricate feudal law of a tiny Channel Island, it would appear that unbeknownst to her, she was married to Bigge--and that proving his death and releasing herself from his arcane bindings will take years and cost millions.
Then an emissary of the Prime Minister arrives with an offer that she absolutely can't...well, you know.
This is the final novel in the trilogy that began with Dead Lies Dreaming and continued with Quantum of Nightmares.
An excellent entry in the Laundry Files series. The tone and genre are a bit different for Charles Stross as a classic Romance, but there is still plenty of eldritch horror to go around.
This is Eve Starkey's story, as she struggles to beat Rupert at his own dream roads game.
Eve gets to show her brains and brawn as she navigates the hazards of time travel and narrative causality with hardly any backup.
I wish there was more space for my favorite bunch of misfits, The Lost Boys.
Much of the novel is built around nostalgia for The Prisoner TV series.
I'm 48 and even for me The Prisoner is too old to really be nostalgia. I saw some of it when I was in grammar school, and hardly knew any English. I remember a man running away from a ball, that he was number 6, and the meme,"I'm a man, I'm not a number".
At my Kibbutz we have a 3 digit number that we use like a credit card number to have services charged to our account. So sometimes, when asked ā¦
This is Eve Starkey's story, as she struggles to beat Rupert at his own dream roads game.
Eve gets to show her brains and brawn as she navigates the hazards of time travel and narrative causality with hardly any backup.
I wish there was more space for my favorite bunch of misfits, The Lost Boys.
Much of the novel is built around nostalgia for The Prisoner TV series.
I'm 48 and even for me The Prisoner is too old to really be nostalgia. I saw some of it when I was in grammar school, and hardly knew any English. I remember a man running away from a ball, that he was number 6, and the meme,"I'm a man, I'm not a number".
At my Kibbutz we have a 3 digit number that we use like a credit card number to have services charged to our account. So sometimes, when asked for our number at the grocery shop, we used to jokingly say "Iām a man, I'm not a number".
Perhaps if I was English the amount of time spent on hashing out every detail of that village would have had more meaning for me.
3.5 Stars
