kaitlphere 's review for:

The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud

4.0

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I read this book because of the Netflix show adaptation, and the adaptation is fairly faithful to the book. In the book, George is overweight and the narration of the book never lets you forget it, which felt like too much.

I enjoy this story and these characters, but sometimes I feel like Lockwood's similarity to Sherlock Holmes is a little heavy handed, and he can be a little too egotistical to sympathize with. Hopefully that just means the character has room to grow in the rest of the series.

I can definitely see myself reading the next book in this series.