Lockwood & Co: The Empty Grave: Book 5 (Lockwood & Co., #5)

by Jonathan Stroud

Now a major Netflix series!

Want to hear a ghost story? That's good. I know a few . . .

After their recent adventures, the Lockwood & Co team deserve a well-earned break . . . so naturally they decide to risk their lives breaking into a heavily-guarded crypt. A building full of unsettled souls, it's also the final resting place of Marissa Fittes, the legendary and (supposedly) long-dead ghost hunter - though the team have their suspicions about just how dead she might be.

What they discover changes everything.

Pitched into a desperate race to get to the truth behind the country's ghost epidemic, the team ignite a final, epic battle against the Fittes agency. A battle that will force them to journey to the Other Side, and face the most terrifying enemy they have ever known.

Can everyone make it out alive?

Join Lucy, Lockwood, George and Holly for one last time as they battle ghosts and humans for truth and justice in this breathtaking finale to the bestselling series.

'Stroud is a genius' - Rick Riordan

• ISBN10: 0552575798
• ISBN13: 9780552575799
• Publish Date: 21 September 2017 (first published 12 September 2017)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
• Imprint: Corgi Childrens
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 560
• Language: English

Reviews

[Nessa Luna]

The Empty Grave is the last book in the Lockwood & Co series and oh my god I was so anxious while reading this. Have you ever picked up a book that made you so anxious that you kept putting it down every five minutes because you just COULD NOT HANDLE IT?! Well, that was me with this book. There were so many stakes and so much could go wrong in this book. But in the end, I think the Empty Grave was a perfect ending to this series, even if it had a liiiiiiitle bit of an open ending (I am honestly this close to try and find fanfiction…). Yeah, amazing series is amazing – I highly recommend if you love paranormal books!

CAWPILE: 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 10 (Avg: 9.43)

[pamela]

I'll write a proper review soon (am travelling and short on time). Suffice it to say for now that this was a brilliant ending to the series. Everything was neatly wrapped up and it left enough there for any future Lockwood & Co stories without making me feel unsatisfied.

The Empty Grave didn't show up in the Goodreads readers choice for 2017, so I did a write in vote for it in the Middle-Grade category. It definitely belongs there.