Tavi rockt sie alle weg.
Still loving Tavis way in the world – learning, finding friends in the city, loads of character development, and of course he saves the world again.
Tavi's now a real Cursor and finds himself sent to the military, where he continues to save the world.
Tavi finally finds out who he is (c'mon, we knew all along) and develops his furycrafting. He also saves the realm using his new-won influence, resolving a terrible war peacefully.
Harry, well, lives for saving Connor. Slow burn, very much focussed on character development, but still sees lots of action and lore.
Oh, the first shadows of moral conflict!
Bob goes visit the Funny Farm and deals with a Mainframe. I mostly loved the use of a chessboard as 2,5(?)-Turing machine.
Slightly less development, but for the first time a truly unexpected twist.
And we finally get some backstory (and a real cliffhanger)
(This review is only to make me remember what happened in a book and why I liked it.)
Second Laundry Book, Bob is slowly moving up the ladder, although Mo's apparently at least twice as fast and ten times as deadly as him. Comes with a spin-off, Pimpf, about Bob and a planted intern battling demons in Neverwinter Nights.
Slightly better written than the Atrocity Archives, and much more amusing the second time I read it, mostly because you get to appreciate Bob as Bond Girl more. Erm, yeah, here's the story:
Basically, something even BLUE HADES is afraid of wants to get free, and uses a devious billionaire and his wife (who works in surveillance cosmetics) to achieve its goal. They set up a hero trap (people are compelled to follow Bond movie behaviour), which leads to Bob getting destinyentangled with a Black Chamber operative, Ramona. (Obviously, the Black Chamber want the artifact to themselves.) Everything seems to go wrong, because neither Bob nor Ramona realize that Bob is the Good Bond Girl and Mo is Bond. All's well in the end, including a proposal (Bob to Mo), to break free of the Bond thing ;)
I liked returning to Roland quite a lot, and while you can read the story without any knowledge of the larger series, there are SERIOUS SPOILERS CONTAINED wtf Mr King. Otherwise creepy in a nice way.