Ich bin gerade einfach viel zu emotional, um irgendwie eine Rezension zu dem Buch zu schreiben und ich werde das auch nicht später editieren oder so, weil . I read the book in the cold hard light of day (after being scared silly reading the first installment at night), but frankly the climax of this book still scared the bejeebus out of me.

I can't guarantee that this will be one of THE BOOKS for you, but it was a wonderful ride nevertheless. I should add that I am about to make custard for a delightfully British lemon pudding - a lemon cake with warm vanilla-meyer-lemon sauce poured over - with my egg whisk, so it's a good time for contemplating alternate usages. But since there was so much time between me finishing the second book and starting the third, I completely forgot what the cliffhanger even was.I’ve picked out two excerpts that made me chortle: Lucy and the Skull have one of their nice chats… Description of Quill Kipps from the Fittes agency. Second, now that we know the secret that Lockwood has been hiding in that room, his mystique is all gone, leaving him quite bland. She's constantly rude and dismissive to Holly, who is never anything but nice to her, and even Lucy's narration couldn't make me see the feud as anything but one-sided. George dan Flo juga tidak ketinggalan dengan riset cerdasnya George dan gaya ala gelandangannya Flo.

The whole thing is handled very badly for two reasons: first, I'm not saying that Lucy and Holly had to be besties from the moment they met, but "badass heroine who isn't like other girls" is a trope that needed to die twenty years ago, and I'm so mad at Stroud for using it. On the character treatment side: there’s a new assistant girl at the agency, but, fortunately, there’s no silly love triangle (at least, not outside Lucy’s mind). He loves making grotesque faces at Holly, but Holly is not aware it is a Type 3 ghost that Lucy communicates with. A secretary is required, someone who can deal with the clients, organize their schedule and clean the mess in their kitchen.More on the competition: That last big conversation Lucy and Holly have, where Stroud tries to show Holly's side and to paint her behavior as rational, does real disservice to the portrayal of Lucy's insight. The main characters gel wonderfully despite their differences, or perhaps because of the way they rub along together and irritate one another too. All those three were really creepy and the Chelsea outbreak in particular immediately had my full attention.