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lightreads) wrote2020-04-22 08:41 pm
lightreads) wrote2020-04-22 08:41 pm
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The Screaming Staircase, The Whispering Skull by Jonathan Stroud
and The Whispering Skull
3/5. YA about a ghost-hunting agency staffed entirely by teenagers in a world where you grow out of the ability to perceive the supernatural, but not out of the ability to be killed by it.
Fun. I almost said cute, but there's too much horror and the literary equivalent of jump scares for that. These hit every single beat I expected, exactly when I expected, which is not a criticism. I was only in the mood for the first two (of many) but if you like supernatural horror more than I do, and have a higher tolerance for teenaged emotional nonsense (not of the romantic sort, at least not yet) here you go.
Also, I don't actually care enough to google, but I have a theory these started as early trunk novels. Might explain the weird timelines – they're vaguely present day, yet no cell phones? No internet? It's an alternate timeline where ghosts are known but I'm not sure how adding ghosts subtracts connectivity.
3/5. YA about a ghost-hunting agency staffed entirely by teenagers in a world where you grow out of the ability to perceive the supernatural, but not out of the ability to be killed by it.
Fun. I almost said cute, but there's too much horror and the literary equivalent of jump scares for that. These hit every single beat I expected, exactly when I expected, which is not a criticism. I was only in the mood for the first two (of many) but if you like supernatural horror more than I do, and have a higher tolerance for teenaged emotional nonsense (not of the romantic sort, at least not yet) here you go.
Also, I don't actually care enough to google, but I have a theory these started as early trunk novels. Might explain the weird timelines – they're vaguely present day, yet no cell phones? No internet? It's an alternate timeline where ghosts are known but I'm not sure how adding ghosts subtracts connectivity.