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Originally Posted by Yapyap
I started Lockwood & Co: The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud last night. Didn't get very far yet. After loving Stroud's Bartimaeus series to bits, I really had high hopes for Lockwood & Co. but the first book, while being okay enough, didn't really grab me (not in a "wow" way in any case) last year and this one seems to be much the same way, although there are now hints at some deeper plot that may, if I'm lucky, turn out to be what I need... Still, I don't think this series will make it to my top ten unless something really remarkable happens either in this book or the next.
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And finished that the other day. Yeah.
I'm not sure where I stand with this series - it's very well written, it has all the requisite plot elements, the characters, especially the narrator, are likeable enough - but that undefinable
something is just missing.
I'll certainly continue reading the series, as that "something" is there in very few books/series - it missing just hits you a bit harder and makes the disappointment that little bit stronger if you've
loved the author's previous work - and the first two books have been enjoyable enough in their own way.
Now I'm reading
Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch, the fourth in his Peter Grant / Rivers of London series. I'm still enjoying Peter's "voice" very much and the setting and the mixture of police procedural with magic is fabulously detailed and comes off surprisingly realistic, but I'm not really as into it as I was with the first and third books in the series. Hmph. Maybe the break in my reading them was too long between the third and this one...