The Whispering Skull
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780857532657 (0857532650)
Publish date: September 25th 2014
Publisher: Doubleday Childrens
Pages no: 448
Edition language: English
Series: Lockwood & Co. (#2)
4.5 stars
This follow-up in the Lockwood & Co series lives up to the promise of The Screaming Staircase. Stroud does good when it comes to ghost fiction. While his characters are all by nature children (an important plot point of the series, since only children can clearly see and deal with the ghostly threat...
Last year brought us Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase, which was a 99.9% enjoyable book for me, and one that left me wanting the sequel now. The sequel has now arrived and I’m happy to report that I found it as engaging and entirely readable as the first book. Lockwood, George, and Lucy find...
This has a freaking awesome set up: something horrible has happened, and fifty years on the world is swimming with ghosts who are dangerous and can even kill the living, and the only people who can see/hear/sense them are children. (Not all children can, but no adults can, those who have the ability...
If you haven't yet read my gushing review of the first book in this series, let me sum up my feelings for you. Lockwood & Co. is brilliantly written fiction, with witty banter and a rich atmospheric setting. Is it any wonder that I was thrilled to be offered the second book in this series for review...
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