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Dead Lies Dreaming

The New Management, Book 1

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Dead Lies Dreaming

By: Charles Stross
Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
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In a world where magic has gone mainstream, a policewoman and a group of petty criminals are pulled into a heist to find a forbidden book of spells that should never be opened.

A new adventure begins in the world of the Laundry Files.

Dead Lies Dreaming presents a nightmarish vision of a Britain sliding unknowingly towards occult cataclysm....

©2020 Charles Stross (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK Adventure Fantasy Humorous Science Fiction Fiction Comedy Scary Crime
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Brilliant. Beautifully constructed,funny, thought provoking & gripping plot. Amazed by the excellent conclusion. More please!

Life under the new management

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Okay, first of all I've religiously collected every single one of the books in the Laundry Files series and I never thought I'd like any characters more than Robert (Bob) Howard. Well how wrong I was!

This book, the first in a planned series in the Laundry Files universe, features a story that is both compelling, amusing, and disturbing in equal amounts, with characters that bring the story to life.

Another superb adventure set in the Laundry Files

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Story was slow to start and not as engaging narration as previous books, but OK otherwise.

Not as good as the earlier Laundry Files

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Where to start? For me this has been the most enjoyable Stross novel in a long time, which is high praise given I buy them all religiously. In the other hand, while I appreciated the fun mock-ney accents from the otherwise 'RP' narrator, there were a fair few mispronounced words which detracted a little from the storytelling, most of which were technical or genre terms.

With all of this in mind I still highly recommend this book, but I wish Hachette had paid more attention to the narration, as this small errors took me out of the story momentarily, and we pay a premium for audiobooks.

Great storytelling, somewhat distracting narration

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Like many others I found the narrators pronunciation and grammatical emphasis at times annoying though as I became used to this it was less distracting. There were also a few production errors where phrases were corrected or repeated and original copy left in. The story flows at a good pace with an interest cast of new characters and the odd twist.

Some flaws however not too detracting from good story

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