Dead Lies Dreaming
2020 • 400 pages

Ratings17

Average rating3.6

15

This is set in the world of the Laundry Files, but the Laundry and its work is absent, bar a few passing references. The flavour is the same, though, the usual mix of wild eldritch transdimensional horror and the fetishisation of competency and process you'd expect from hard SF. This one throws Peter Pan into the mix, as an updated version of the Lost Boys get mixed up in a demon strewn hunt for a missing occult book that has some very firm ideas on ownership. Don't be put off by the lack of Bob and Mo, this is very much in the lineage of the earlier books, and if you've enjoyed them this is going to work for you as well.
I'm not 100% sure if it is a standalone, or setting up a new cast for a string of books. It could work either way, and I'd just as happy with a new Imp and co book as I would a new Bob one. And surely there's a crossover brewing down the line....

August 11, 2020Report this review