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
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
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
lyricallit's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
funny
fast-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming and Fatphobia
Moderate: Child death
renpuspita's review against another edition
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Dimulai dengan suasana canggung (yang wajar karena kejadian di akhir buku 3) dan ditutup dengan cukup solid, intense dan full action packed. Never a dull moment! Plus ditambah ciri khas tiap buku, endingnya selalu ditutup dengan informasi yang bikin ngang ngong ngang ngong.
Tentu saja typonya masih ada dan bejibun 🥲
Gue bilang suasanya awal buku ini canggung, karena ending buku 3 emang lumayan membagongkan. Kecanggungan ini terasa karena kelihatan jelas George sama Lockwood sakit hati sama sikap Lucy saat meninggalkan agency. Jadi waktu akhirnya mereka semua baikan dan bersatu kembali, rasanya kayak plong banget XD. Bahkan Lucy dan Holly pun juga akhirnya akur, hati Lucy yang mulai melunak dan bahkan menganggap Holly jadi bagian dari Lockwood & Co yang tidak terpisahkan. Plus, ada tambahan member tidak resmi yang tidak lain dan tidak bukan adalah Quill Kipps yang sekarang memilih berdamai dengan Lockwood walau masih saling ejek dengan George. Lockwood dan Lucy makin lama makin ikrib, they have the talk, walau lucunya Lockwood (dan banyak orang) mengira gara - gara Holly, Lucy pergi dari agency, padahal alasannya bukan itu. Walau emang Lucy kelihatan bucin, gue saat baca buku ini masih menganggap hubungan keduanya itu platonik aja. Kalau si tengkorak, yah masih sama kayak biasanya. Kayaknya gue termasuk sedikit orang yang biasa aja ke tengkorak yah hahaha. Karena di luar komen - komen sarkasnya, perkembangan karakter tengkorak ga terlalu banyak, apalagi misteri di balik identitas tengkorak masih belum jelas.
Untuk kasus - kasusnya sendiri, tetap menyenangkan buat dibaca. Tetep bikin merinding, walau sebenarnya kadar horrornya sudah cukup berkurang. Di buku ini banyak hal - hal yang terungkap. Seperti usaha pembakaran di tungku Fittes yang ternyata menyimpan rahasia kelam, lalu sedikit demi sedikit juga mulai kelihatan alasan di balik terjadinya Wabah Hantu, seperti apa yang terjadi di Aldbury Castle. Stroud kali ini juga mengajak pembaca untuk pergi ke dunia para hantu, yang sedikit banyak mengingatkan gue sama dunia lain di mitologi - mitologi Celtic (Annwyn). Apakah Stroud terinspirasi mitologi ini ya?
Yang jelas sisa satu buku lagi untuk menutup series yang menyenangkan ini!
Tentu saja typonya masih ada dan bejibun 🥲
Gue bilang suasanya awal buku ini canggung, karena ending buku 3 emang lumayan membagongkan. Kecanggungan ini terasa karena kelihatan jelas George sama Lockwood sakit hati sama sikap Lucy saat meninggalkan agency. Jadi waktu akhirnya mereka semua baikan dan bersatu kembali, rasanya kayak plong banget XD. Bahkan Lucy dan Holly pun juga akhirnya akur, hati Lucy yang mulai melunak dan bahkan menganggap Holly jadi bagian dari Lockwood & Co yang tidak terpisahkan. Plus, ada tambahan member tidak resmi yang tidak lain dan tidak bukan adalah Quill Kipps yang sekarang memilih berdamai dengan Lockwood walau masih saling ejek dengan George. Lockwood dan Lucy makin lama makin ikrib, they have the talk, walau lucunya Lockwood (dan banyak orang) mengira gara - gara Holly, Lucy pergi dari agency, padahal alasannya bukan itu. Walau emang Lucy kelihatan bucin, gue saat baca buku ini masih menganggap hubungan keduanya itu platonik aja. Kalau si tengkorak, yah masih sama kayak biasanya. Kayaknya gue termasuk sedikit orang yang biasa aja ke tengkorak yah hahaha. Karena di luar komen - komen sarkasnya, perkembangan karakter tengkorak ga terlalu banyak, apalagi misteri di balik identitas tengkorak masih belum jelas.
Untuk kasus - kasusnya sendiri, tetap menyenangkan buat dibaca. Tetep bikin merinding, walau sebenarnya kadar horrornya sudah cukup berkurang. Di buku ini banyak hal - hal yang terungkap. Seperti usaha pembakaran di tungku Fittes yang ternyata menyimpan rahasia kelam, lalu sedikit demi sedikit juga mulai kelihatan alasan di balik terjadinya Wabah Hantu, seperti apa yang terjadi di Aldbury Castle. Stroud kali ini juga mengajak pembaca untuk pergi ke dunia para hantu, yang sedikit banyak mengingatkan gue sama dunia lain di mitologi - mitologi Celtic (Annwyn). Apakah Stroud terinspirasi mitologi ini ya?
Yang jelas sisa satu buku lagi untuk menutup series yang menyenangkan ini!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming
Moderate: Murder
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
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