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Title: The Whispering Skull
Subtitle: Lockwood & Co., Book 2
Author: Jonathan Stroud
Narrator: Katie Lyons
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-16-14
Publisher: Listening Library
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 615 votes
Genres: Kids, Ages 8-10
Publisher's Summary:
In the six months since Anthony, Lucy, and George survived a night in the most haunted house in England, Lockwood and Co. hasn't made much progress. Quill Kipps and his team of Fittes agents keep swooping in on Lockwood's investigations. Finally, in a fit of anger, Anthony challenges his rival to a contest: the next time the two agencies compete on a job, the losing side will have to admit defeat in the Times newspaper.
Things look up when a new client, Mr. Saunders, hires Lockwood and Co. to be present at the excavation of Edmund Bickerstaff, a Victorian doctor who reportedly tried to communicate with the dead. Saunders needs the coffin sealed with silver to prevent any supernatural trouble. All goes well - until George's curiosity attracts a horrible phantom.
Back home at Portland Row, Lockwood accuses George of making too many careless mistakes. Lucy is distracted by urgent whispers coming from the skull in the ghost jar. Then the team is summoned to DEPRAC headquarters. Kipps is there too, much to Lockwood's annoyance. Bickerstaff's coffin was raided and a strange glass object buried with the corpse has vanished. Inspector Barnes believes the relic to be highly dangerous, and he wants it found.
The author of the blockbuster Bartimaeus series delivers another amusing, chilling, and ingeniously plotted entry in the critically acclaimed Lockwood and Co. series.
Members Reviews:
Thoroughly enjoyable
What made the experience of listening to The Whispering Skull the most enjoyable?
The narration added so much to the story by bringing the characters to life. She successfully carried the various voices whether male or female characters.
What did you like best about this story?
The mixture of light heartedness and creepy in the context of a mystery worked to bring the reader along and pull them into the sorry.
What does Katie Lyons bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?
She truly brought the story to life adding the appropriate dimensions of emotion and carrying the tone of the story. Brilliant.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes.
Another very good ghost story
As I said for book 1, Stroud writes a really good ghost story. This one is no exception. I've liked the first 2 so well that I'll be buying the rest of the series as they come out.
The narrator for this one is different from the first book, but she does an excellent job. The ghosts' whisperings she did are particularly creepy. I could easily see her telling fantastic stories around the camp fire. I don't see her listed for any other books on Audible, but I'll be surprised it stays that way for long. Lyons clearly has the talent for narrating books.
Between the story and the performance, this was a very enjoyable book to listen to.
great story but narration isn't good
The story is just as good as the first book, but it's hard to discern who's speaking. The narrator doesn't use distinct voices for the different characters.
Excellent
Would you consider the audio edition of The Whispering Skull to be better than the print version?
This second book in the Lockwood & Co series is wonderful- masterfully read. A very thrilling story full of 'edge of your set suspense'
What about Katie Lyonss performance did you like?
She gave a brilliant performance - very well read.
