Title: The Empty Grave
Author: Jonathan Stroud
Pages: 427
Finished: September 15, 2017
First Sentence: Want to hear a ghost story?
Summary: The finale of Stroud's Lockwood & Co series. Penelope Fittes has forbade Locwood & Co from doing anything other than dealing with the most simple of hauntings. Fittes Agency is also starting to take over all other small Agencies in London. Any heads of agencies who hold out end up mysteriously dead. And furthermore, after The Skull's assertions that Penelope Fittes is actually Marissa Fittes, the woman who started Fittes Agency back when the Problem began, Lockwood and company find themselves researching her as stealthily as they can.
Thoughts: One of my favorite things about this series is how Lucy has grown as a person. Some of her character flaws that bothered me have been smoothed away as she's grown up.
The book tied up the main question that I had regarding The Problem (though the tie up was fairly predictable as the series went on.) I particularly enjoyed their foray into The Other Side where we learned more about some things that were happening. I also appreciated some of the storylines being implied rather than spelled out. There's plenty of room for fan fiction fodder. All in all, I'm glad I read this series. A great fall read with Halloween around the corner.
The book tied up the main question that I had regarding The Problem (though the tie up was fairly predictable as the series went on.) I particularly enjoyed their foray into The Other Side where we learned more about some things that were happening. I also appreciated some of the storylines being implied rather than spelled out. There's plenty of room for fan fiction fodder. All in all, I'm glad I read this series. A great fall read with Halloween around the corner.
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