lenchen25's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Loveable characters? Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia and Death
Minor: Child death
jackiepreston's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
fast-paced
- 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
Content Warnings
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
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- 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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Murder, Gore, and Cannibalism
Minor: Child death, Fatphobia, and Violence
starlitpage's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- 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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death and Blood
Moderate: Child death, Gore, and Violence
Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
bookcheshirecat's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death
Moderate: Body horror, Murder, and Violence
Minor: Sexism
erebus53's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
- 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
Here I am still dawdling through this book series (now at number 4) and I still don't like the main character. Here's a plot that I find engaging and relationships that are .. dysfunctional and messy.. and a cast that is woefully blonde despite the token brown girl, and all the horror and humour is based on people being fat.
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.
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Child death, Death, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Blood, Bullying, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Grief, Misogyny, and Sexism
fyre_flies's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death and Injury/Injury detail
growintogardens's review
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Much better than the last one, but the author really grinds my gears with the body shaming.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Body horror, Death, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Cannibalism, Gore, and Violence
camiclarkbooks's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Like millions of other people, I watched “Lockwood & Co” when it debuted on Netflix and got hooked. Once I found out that it was based on a YA book series, I immediately put them at the top of my TBR.
“The Creeping Shadow” sees the tight-knit trio of Lucy Carlyle, Anthony Lockwood, and George Cubbins—and newest team member Holly Munro—splitting up.
After the almost fatal events solving the massive haunting in “The Hollow Boy,” Lucy was aware that she was no longer fully in control of her growing Talents and that she might get her friends seriously injured again—or worse. She removes herself from her friends and sets up shop as a consultant for and continues to make a name for herself while trying to regain control over her Listening.
Lucy agrees to work a case with Lockwood & Co when they’re hired by one of the most prominent figures in the psychic industry. After the job is completed, she’d intended to part ways with her old friends—permanently—but finds herself in need of their services when her haunted skull is stolen.
As they all work together to reclaim her sidekick, the teens uncover a conspiracy that could change everything the public has accepted about ghosts for the past 50 years...
Content Warnings
Minor: Death
chris_reads's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- 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
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Trafficking, Violence, Death, and Cannibalism
Moderate: Abandonment, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder
Minor: Suicide, Child death, and Trafficking