I’m so excited to share with you a delightful audiobook
experience for the whole family.
Nellie introduced me to it on our road trip to and back from
our vacation in Yosemite last October.
And, oh my gosh, how we’ve enjoyed listening to them.
It’s the Lockwood & Co. series by Jonathan Stroud.
They’re young adult paranormal thrillers with a good dose of humor and English
charm.
Yes, Netflix, launched a show based on the books, but Nellie
and I tried it, and the Netflix productions don’t hold a candle to the
audiobooks.
It’s not even close.
The story is set in England in, I’d say, the 1980s, before
cell phones and the internet became a thing. The problem is that ghosts,
specters, tommy knockers, etc. are appearing all over the place and causing
havoc. Because, in this world, when you’re touched by a visitor from the other
side, you can easily become ghost locked, basically put in coma, or die.
And while the ghosts can touch anyone, children and teens
are the only ones who can see them. And so it’s children and teens who must
fight them. Of course, large ghost protection agencies are formed, but our
story is about Lucy Carlisle, who joins a tiny agency run by a daring young man
named Anthony Lockwood.
There are five books in the series, which translates to
about fifty-nine hours of delightful listening. Perfect for the long road trips
of all sorts.
Miranda Raison is the reader for the first book, Katie Lyons
the second, and Emily Bevan for the final three. And they’ve all been a joy to
listen to.
I’m not normally a paranormal kind of guy, but this is
making me reconsider. We loved Stroud’s Bartimaeus series. And he brings the
same fast action, interesting characters, and wit to these.
If you enjoy delightful characters and derring-do leavened
with some humor, I think you’ll love these.
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