The Empty Grave

Finally, an ending and (I hope) a new beginning...............

What started as something unique, imagine your children, or your neighbor's children, at the stroke of 6 in the evening, wherein normally, the family is preparing for dinner, but within Mr. Stroud's universe, it is time for children to fight.

The first book was an engaging read, the start of Lucy Car lyle at Lockwood & Co., the challenges they had to overcome, and on to numerous adventures, now the final book is done, and some questions were answered, the start of the Problem(when spirits or ghosts started appearing and attacking humans, how only children can see, hear, talk to these entities), how the various Agencies were formed especially two of the biggest and well known Fittes and Rotwell, how a small agency was able to hold it's own, and solve one of the mystery in this universe, the aforementioned start.

Reading The Empty Grave was like having and holding on to a secret knowledge that is so time sensitive that it made the atmosphere so tense, manic and every action taken by Lockwood, George, Holly, Lucy and last but not the least Kipps in a hurried manner(ohhhhhhh no spoiling of the why of this....), the volume was crammed with a lot more information, a lot more action and comedy(such a wonderful feeling after so much horror and fear), the action especially the latter part was enjoyable, I was hoping Mr. Stroud would continue the series, those type two's and three's are really fascinating, added to that is the hope that finally adults can now fight too............

I really would recommend binge reading this series, I felt the fourth book should have been this one massive volume instead of having a fifth one since they were closely interconnected........so many answers to questions but at the same time so many answers that spawn new questions..........