The Whispering Skull
9780552568050
Corgi Children’s
Paperback
485pp
Corgi Children’s
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Jonathan Stroud Corgi Children’s YFC|YNXB Paperback 2015
The second volume in Jonathan Stroud's exceptional series . . . Stroud's writing is inventive and funny, but be warned: this is packed with grisly ghouls and is not perhaps for the faint-hearted.
Sunday Telegraph – Lorna Bradbury
Seriously scary, brilliant prose.
Metro
Plenty of humour alongside the chills.
Financial Times
I’ve waited with baited breath for the second instalment of Jonathan Stroud’s Lockwood & Co novels. At last, The Whispering Skull is here and it is definitely worth the wait.
Scotsman Teen review
Stroud delivers another riveting narrative
Booklist
Rousing adventures for young tomb robbers and delvers into realms better left to the dead
Kirkus
There was a fight between me and my 11-year-old about who got first to Jonathan Stroud's Whispering Skull . . . A blissful read.
Evening Standard
As in the first volume there are plenty of heart-stopping moments and a generous dollop of gore, but nothing most teens and confident readers can't handle: in fact, the problem will be to persuade them to put the book down. In short, it's both gross and engrossing!
The Bookbag
The Whispering Skull frees Stroud to let his flair for spectacle run riot, resulting in several deftly constructed set-pieces far more akin to true horror than the ghost house antics of the first book.
Starburst
As in the first instalment, Stroud manages to perfectly balance grisly encounters with gleefully sarcastic humour.
Independent Children’s blog