The Screaming Staircase

Jonathan Stroud takes a step back from his Bartimaeous trilogy to deliver something which is much more simple and thus younger. The writing style is as clean as ever and the magic/haunting system is explained fairly logically. Sadly, the benchmarks were set to high. So in the end it turns out to be a light read with some moments thrown in to keep you interested. Well onto the next on in any case