
The Creeping Shadow
Lockwood & Co, Book 4
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Narrated by:
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Emily Bevan
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By:
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Jonathan Stroud
A terrible crime forces Lucy to turn to Lockwood for help and sets them on the trail of dark secrets at the heart of London society. Both professionally and personally, their investigation stirs up forces they may not be able to control....
Ghouls and spectres, thrills and tension in this brand-new instalment in Jonathan Stroud's best-selling series.
©2016 Jonathan Stroud (P)2016 Random House AudiobooksListeners also enjoyed...




















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"Stroud is a genius." (Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series)
Story
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Story: Lucy has left Lockwood to protect her former employer from himself. But living with the Skull has its own problems, even if she seems to be doing decently in her free-lance work. But she has stumbled upon corruption in the agencies and then the skull is stolen. Lucy will have to team up with Lockwood again - but he appears to be even more reckless than before.
Quite a bit of the large backstory was revealed in this book four - all clearly leading to the finale in the next and final book. The interactions of Lucy and the skull were so well written as to be laugh out loud funny and bone chilling at the same time. Even more interesting, we get a picture of what the skull originally looked like - and it is quite shocking. I am even more intrigued to find out the mystery behind the skull in the jar.
Of course, there are great interactions with Lucy and Lockwood and the Mulder and Ssully type of uncomfortable attraction. Lucy is great at denial and Lockwood is too preoccupied - but darn if it isn't so well written that you want to lock them into a room together. George and Holly are as distinct and well drawn as ever and the addition of Kipps makes the story all that more engaging. I'm glad that Stroud doesn't drop characters between books and instead seamlessly incorporates them back into the plot.
This is definitely one of my favorite reads/listens of the year. Extremely well written, exciting, genuinely scary at moments, and laugh out loud funny at others. Note: I listened to the Audible version and the narrator did an excellent job (though I wish the series kept the same narrator throughout).
So Darn Good!
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Can’t wait to hear the last book of the series.
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Top book. Well written and crispy
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Looove it!
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I hate how cartoonish and ugly the characters sound.
Narrator ruined it
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