The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

Book: The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud

Rating: 4.5 stars 

Review Writer: James S.

The Whispering Skull is the second book in the five book Lockwood & Co. series by Jonathan Stroud. The Whispering Skull follows Lockwood & Co. a group of children in an alternate London who eradicate ghosts for a business. Lockwood & Co. is made up Anthony Lockwood, George Cubbins, and Lucy Carlyle. As George Cubbins is experimenting on a skull in a jar it suddenly speaks to Lucy. One thing I liked about The Whispering Skull is that it  kept the moody atmosphere from the first book and the weird quirks of each character. I also like the little bits of detail that show us what might happen next. I also like how even though a new character is introduced, the skull in the jar, Stroud introduced them and eased them into the story and its plot. I also like how the villain in the book is not very clear until the end giving the book an air of mystery. One thing that I didn’t like about Stroud’s The Whispering Skull is that his details were a bit inconsistent and that it made the book a little annoying. I also didn’t like how the names of some ghost sub-types were changed from the first book.