Review: The Atrocity Archives
I’m not so much part of the target audience for Charles Stross’s Laundry Files books as I’m a member of its core constituency. His blend of fantasy and horror tropes, spy thriller homages, and computer systems in-jokes is pitch perfect to me. There is a great joy in following the combination of humor and plot allusions and realizing what’s coming a beat or two before one of the characters explains it.
None of that would be worth anything if Stross put together a less diverting story behind the trappings. He’s quite an excellent and fun writer, executing a good story populated with believable characters – even when they’re supernatural.
Strongly recommended.