Well, I finally finished The Apocalypse Codex (winner of the 2013 Locus Fantasy Award). While I usually try by starting out with what I like about the book, I'm going to find it difficult. The concept was interesting, but I could not get into it.
Bob Howard is a computational demonologist working for Laundry. He apparently impressed someone in the previous books in the series, because he's on a fast-track to a management position. He is assigned to External Assets to track a Reverand Schiller, who has gotten uncomfortably chummy with the prime minister. He is sent to Colorado with two freelance agents, Persephone and Johnny. It turns out that Rev. Schiller is opening a gate to horrors of Lovecraftian proportions, all the while thinking he's doing God's will.
Once they get to Colorado, the action and the cloak-and-dagger go into full swing. Somehow I was unable to visualize the what Charles Stross was trying to describe. I'd put the book down for weeks at a time.
What did everyone else think? Do you think that the rough fall semester may have soured me on an otherwise good book?
Bob Howard is a computational demonologist working for Laundry. He apparently impressed someone in the previous books in the series, because he's on a fast-track to a management position. He is assigned to External Assets to track a Reverand Schiller, who has gotten uncomfortably chummy with the prime minister. He is sent to Colorado with two freelance agents, Persephone and Johnny. It turns out that Rev. Schiller is opening a gate to horrors of Lovecraftian proportions, all the while thinking he's doing God's will.
Once they get to Colorado, the action and the cloak-and-dagger go into full swing. Somehow I was unable to visualize the what Charles Stross was trying to describe. I'd put the book down for weeks at a time.
What did everyone else think? Do you think that the rough fall semester may have soured me on an otherwise good book?