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[froodle]

Wow, Lockwood is kind of a dick. I'm listening to the Whispering Skull audiobook, and the main police dude has hired Lockwood n co to find this thingie that peeps are killing each other over, that also independently kills peeps, and theyre at a party and Barnes (police dude) is all, oh hey Lockwood, any progress on that case that a) I am paying you to work on and b) that is costing people all across London their lives?

And Lockwood's response is basically, "Lol nope, ps also George is fat."

Even leaving aside the fact that it's a shitty thing to say about your mate when he's standing right there, YOU ARE TALKING TO A DUDE WHO HIRED YOU WHO IS ASKING FOR A PROGRESS UPDATE ON A THING HE GAVE YOU MONEY TO WORK ON. Be more professional, jeez!

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[misura.livejournal.com]

And yet he is supposedly capable of being very charming?

(I think I read ... hm, something with a staircase? It was quite some time ago, so my memories are a bit vague, sorry.)

Also: erk. Sherlock almost sounds civil by comparison (assuming you've seen that show?).

[froodle]

Screaming Staircase was the first one, if you read it a couple of years back, thats most likely the one you're thinking of.

Yeah, the narration makes a lot of how suave and charming he is. But then, the books are written from the pov of a teenage girl who goes on about how good looking he is, so maybe its a case of narrator bias? I do enjoy the stories but tbh at times he comes off as insincere and douchey to me, so its a bit jarring when Lucy is all, OMG AND THEN LOCKWOOD WAS BEING PRETTY AND TALL, and im like, "...but still a dick, though?"

Honestly, yeah, at this point Benbatch's Sherlock looks like an ideal dinner date compared to Lockwood!

[misura.livejournal.com]

That was the one - yup! I appreciated that the author included an explanation for why, exactly, you have teenagers running around dealing with dangerous ghosts (as opposed to just, well, 'they do it because adults are useless' or no explanation at all). It seemed a nice piece of world-building.

[froodle]

I do like that, the actual world he creates is great and.some of the ghost manifestations are so creepily described - i admit the frst ghost in screaming staircase, i was listening to the audiobook in bed and i was lying there with my eyes wide open and my arms and legs safe.in the bedroom. Not bad for a book aimed at 12 year olds!