Benoît Huron reviewed The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co., #3)
Better and better
4 stars
The series keeps improving. This one contains some genuinely creepy bits. Well done.
Phantoms in your attic? Spectres by your bed? Never fear - Lockwood & Co. are here!
A terrible new outbreak of ghosts is causing chaos across London. With the authorities baffled, psychic investigators Lockwood, Lucy and George see a fresh chance for fame and glory.
But countless horrors await them: bloody footprints on a spiral staircase, murderous ambushes in the night - and, waiting at the centre of the outbreak, the most fearful apparition of all.
Ghouls and spectres, thrills and tension in this brand-new instalment in …
Phantoms in your attic? Spectres by your bed? Never fear - Lockwood & Co. are here!
A terrible new outbreak of ghosts is causing chaos across London. With the authorities baffled, psychic investigators Lockwood, Lucy and George see a fresh chance for fame and glory.
But countless horrors await them: bloody footprints on a spiral staircase, murderous ambushes in the night - and, waiting at the centre of the outbreak, the most fearful apparition of all.
Ghouls and spectres, thrills and tension in this brand-new instalment in Jonathan Stroud's best selling series.
Paperback, 448 pages
English language
Published June 20, 2015 by Penguin Random House.
The series keeps improving. This one contains some genuinely creepy bits. Well done.