The Hollow Boy

, #3

385 pages

English language

Published June 19, 2015

ISBN:
978-1-4847-0968-9
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OCLC Number:
913514393

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4 stars (10 reviews)

As a massive outbreak of supernatural Visitors baffles Scotland Yard and causes protests throughout London, Lockwood & Co. continue to demonstrate their effectiveness in exterminating spirits. Anthony Lockwood is dashing, George insightful, and Lucy dynamic, while the skull in the jar utters sardonic advice from the sidelines. There is a new spirit of openness in the team now that Lockwood has shared some of his childhood secrets, and Lucy is feeling more and more as if her true home is at Portland Row. It comes as a great shock, then, when Lockwood and George introduce her to an annoyingly perky and hyper-efficient new assistant, Holly Munro.

Meanwhile, there are reports of many new hauntings, including a house where bloody footprints are appearing, and a department store full of strange sounds and shadowy figures. But ghosts seem to be the least of Lockwood & Co.'s concerns when assassins attack during a …

3 editions

reviewed The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud (Lockwood & Co., #3)

The most unreliable narrator

5 stars

This book made me enjoy the prior two much more in retrospect. It makes it unavoidably clear that Lucy is an unreliable narrator who doesn't describe people as they actually are, but as she (a teenage girl) perceives them. It makes some of the interplay between her and George in previous books more bearable, and telegraphs nicely that her relationship with Holly will eventually improve if she can get over herself.

This is also probably the spookiest book in the series!

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Subjects

  • JUVENILE FICTION / Horror & Ghost Stories
  • Ghost stories
  • Paranormal fiction
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Fantasy & Magic
  • JUVENILE FICTION / Mysteries & Detective Stories
  • Fiction
  • Detective and mystery stories
  • Supernatural
  • Ghosts
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Mystery and detective stories

Places

  • England
  • London
  • London (England)