Barnaby Grimes
Curse of the Night Wolf

This was a fun, quick Sunday afternoon read. In fact, I could read an adventure of Barnaby Grimes, the tick-tock lad (basically a roof-hopping messenger) in his weird, Victorian London-esque city, every Sunday afternoon. Though a predictable plot, I found the ideas and details clever and still rewar......more

Barnaby Grimes is a tock-tock lad. He'll deliver any message for any client, anywhere, anytime. He's the fastest messenger around and he'll even climb on rooftops to deliver his messages on time. One night, while Barnaby is traveling by rooftop, he is attacked by a huge wolf-like beast. When Barnaby'......more

This first installment in the Barnaby Grimes series starts like this: “Have you ever felt your skin being peeled slowly away from your arms and legs? Your muscles being torn and shredded as every bone in your body fights to burst through your flesh? Have you ever felt every tendon and sinew stretched......more

Undoubtedly my favorite Paul Stewart book. He's always kind of disappointed me in the past, y'know? Never really lived up this potential. This book marks a change, delving into a pseudo-Victorian style that's fun, fast-paced, and far better than anything he's done before.......more

2 stars. There wasn't anything bad about this book, but. There wasn't anything special about it either. Unless you consider Chris Riddell's work of art special, which it is. The artwork by him has a special place in my heart from all of The Edge Chronicles books. But that aside, this was written (I'm......more