Season of Skulls
The New Management, Book 3
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Narrated by:
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Imogen Church
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By:
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Charles Stross
About this listen
Welcome to Britain under the New Management! The Prime Minister is an 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.
Hyperorganised 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 Laundry Files spin-off trilogy that began with Dead Lies Dreaming and continued with Quantum of Nightmares.
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"Grim, hilarious, inventive." (Tamsyn Muir)
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- MrOakroom
- 22-12-23
The new world is growing on me
Great fun. I wish it had another five chapters! Can’t wait for the next one.
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- Nick
- 31-05-23
Good romp
While I really miss the laundry and those characters, not to mention London’s reading, and wish the author hadn’t taken us down such a dark path, I’m still really enjoying these latest instalments
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- David F Martin
- 06-07-23
Let down by poor audio reader.
At times the woman reading this book was sinking into pantomime levels of character voice, the story although not the best in the series was ok the rendering of it was let’s say comical at times.
A good book spoiled by amateur audio reader.
Sorry but Audio need to get a grip on who and how books are read and maybe some quality control over these two subjects.
The first books in the series were of far better quality and with a more interesting story line.
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- J O'Sullivan
- 22-05-23
Sometimes you have to go backwards to go forwards.
With Evelyn Starky as the main protagonist, this book looks at the fate of women and how much it has and has not changed.
An excellent edition to the laundry files universe.
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- Michael B.
- 22-05-23
Not as good as “Quantum of Nightmares”
I didn’t feel the story was as good as the previous book in the “New Management” series. It seemed to meander a bit. And not as funny.
I’m a big fan of Imogen Church’s narration, especially on the last book, but there were times during this story where her dramatic performance just seemed to be unnecessary. Sometimes it’s OK to just read.
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- RugbyMonkey
- 07-03-24
Record Scratch
Great story, lots of plot twists and song nice hanging threads for future books. The performance was off the scale brilliant!!
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- C J Thornton
- 22-05-23
Great story - poor recording
Loved it, another imagination trip from Charlie.
Recording, no - volume all over the place. Tip: use a compressor!
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- Cissie
- 14-07-23
Quite annoying narration
Stross is one of my favourite author and I like the Laundry files, But the overemphasized narration ruined this listening:( Sometimes whispering, sometimes too loud... English is not my native language so my fingers attached to the volume control just to understand the text, I even thinking about to stop audible subsription because of this bad narration:(
The story was enjoyable altough the prevoous pieces were better a little bit.
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- Orph
- 28-05-23
Great story
If you’ve been following this series then you’re in for a treat as so many plot lines come together. So funny and fast moving. Great job by Imogen Church too in bringing the characters to life!
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- Beryllium Urchin
- 30-05-23
Welcome to your home from home
Eve never should bow down
to a crew of No.2
Or the tang of a tyrant tongue
This was a great book, and (forgive me) more fun than Quantum.
Imogen Church’s narration all the better for not having to do lots of children’s voices.
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