lenchen25's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
Moderate: Fatphobia and Death
Minor: Child death
jackiepreston's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Fire/Fire injury, and Violence
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, and Child death
Minor: Death of parent
kassidyreads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Murder, Gore, and Cannibalism
Minor: Child death, Fatphobia, and Violence
starlitpage's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Death and Blood
Moderate: Child death, Gore, and Violence
Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
erebus53's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
It's woeful.
I really like the problem solving stuff and the world is fun. The survival and the ghost hunting is cool. The title character is swishy.. but it's almost embarrassingly cliché. The animosity and compulsive competition between characters makes it weird because even the buddies hate kinda hate each other... and any closeness between the two main characters is more like sappy girly crush stuff and trauma bonds, rather than any sensible relationship building.
Why am I still here? I really do like the setting. It's atmospheric and I like the spooky. I like the pace and the plot beats.. I like the problem solving and the uncovering of mysteries. I like the secret bad guys and the reversal of fortunes. The dreadful, evil buddy-character is ridiculous, and in this book you get a bit of a reveal about what the ghost might have actually looked like in life. And there is collateral damage! Named characters are starting to drop.. ok not Core characters.. but important ones.
The Co. part of "Lockwood &" is beginning to snowball. In this book yet another character is affiliated with the team.. previously a bit part is now sort of integrating into more of a recurring presence. The team are supposed to hate him, but I have kind of a crush... Lucy may be eyerollingly negative, but I don't have to share her view.
Fine.. there's only one more book left.. I might as well finish the series.. not just yet, but soon.
Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Blood, Bullying, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Grief, Misogyny, and Sexism
lyricallit's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Moderate: Child death
chris_reads's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Trafficking, Violence, Death, and Cannibalism
Moderate: Abandonment, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder
Minor: Suicide, Child death, and Trafficking