Lord of the Wings

By: Donna Andrews

Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne

It's another holiday and Mayor Randall Shiffley has turned Caerphilly, Virginia, into Spooky City, USA. The residents are covering every window with cobwebs and roaming the streets in costume to entertain the tourists, and Meg's grandfather is opening a new 'Creatures of the Night' exhibit in the zoo. When a real body at the zoo and a suspicious fire at the Haunted House threaten to mar the town's creepy fun, it's up to Meg Langslow to save Halloween.

©2015 Donna Andrews (P)2015 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Not Donna’s best, but festive so worth it

I love listening to seasonally relevant books; this one fit the bill. I wondered if there was a ghost writer involved for parts of it as Meg seemed particularly stuck-up in parts of this one…I didn’t love that, hence 4-stars.

love the meg langslow series

Donna Andrew's Meg Langslow series is a must read. The thrill of a mystery and loveable town.

awesome

loved the book. the strong characters that are in this book are fabulous. love it

Dr. Smoot returns

It is Halloween and the town of Caerphilly is having an event that is family-friendly during the day and not for the faint of heart at night. Dr. Smoot has changed his home into a haunted house and a museum. When things start to happen in the town and Meg's grandfather's zoo, she is called frequently to come out and stop the problems, as the Head of the Goblin Patrol. In the past, while listening to these books my family has laughed so hard. This book was not an exception. We enjoyed the story as we drove to Cedar Point to go to The Haunt. My kids would demand that I start the book when we got in the car and listen quietly throughout the story.

A Halloween mystery

In <strong>Lord of the Wings</strong> by Donna Andrews, Halloween has come to Caerphilly. The whole town is having a giant festival, family- friendly in the daytime and creepy in the night. Though hearing that someone has tried to break into the haunted house at Dr. Smoot's home, Meg decides to go first to the zoo with her twin sons' first grade class. While she is there, her grandfather, the owner of the zoo, gets word that the lions have eaten a tourist, only for the pair to discover that someone has thrown a fake arm, not a real person, into the pit. Then, in the alligator habitat, the first graders spot an arm among the gators, scaring some and exciting the more ghoulish. Catching the college student who threw the arm in, Meg and Michael hear the young man say that he is on an adventure or a quest, and the police find a paper with 5 tasks on it in his pocket. The tasks include breaking into the zoo and scaring someone with a fake body part. Then, just as the police take away the young man, two members of the "Goblin Patrol," the volunteer security force, report that they have found a real body this time. Near the man is part of another set of tasks.

Meg gets involved in trying to figure out this quest, enlisting the help of her brother's computer game company, Mutant Wizards. Law enforcement comes to suspect that someone is using this quest to cover up some other crime. They think it probably is somehow connected to the break ins at the new museum about Caerphilly history that Dr. Smoot is trying to create. But they need to figure out what this involvement could be.

<strong>Lord of the Wings</strong> has a highly creative plot and a very descriptive setting. The background of the Halloween festival adds much flavor and fun to the book. I enjoyed the way 6- year- old Josh and Jamie insist on wearing a unique costume each day of the week and how Meg's dad gets a team from Mutant Wizards to make fancy robot and alien costumes for the boys. I loved getting to spend time with old friends from Caerphilly, from the Langslows and Waterstones to Ms. Ellie, the librarian, and Dr. Smoot, the former medical examiner- turned- vampire impersonator. It was also fun to meet the ebullient Ragnar Ragnarson, the aging former heavy metal drummer, who is turning his mansion into a gothic castle.

I highly appreciated the performance of Bernadette Dunne in the audio edition of this book. As usual, she uses realistic voices and lively expression that makes the book easy to visualize as she performs it. This audiobook is a great deal of fun to listen to.

I thoroughly loved the experience of listening to <strong>Lord of the Wings</strong>. I love all of the Meg Langslow books and can't think of a single one that doesn't deserve five stars, but this book is one that particularly stands out. Besides having such a great plot and many humorous moments, it had an especially satisfying conclusion. I give this book five stars.

This series continues to be great!

I have enjoyed everyone of this bird brained books, that's bird-inspired books. Delightful, friendly and interesting mysteries.

Great author Donna Andrews.

Funny and a mystery of who is the murderer? guessing game through the whole book.

wonderful book

I love her characters but in this story they are over the top funny

Give Us More

This is my favorite American "cozy" series. Audible...get the rest of the series for us!!

Love this series

Another great listen from Donna Andrews. Vampires, haunted houses and people sneaking around at night. And Meg caught right in the middle again! My favorite part in this book is when the boys decide Spike needs a costume and Spike lets them! Must read for people that enjoy this series as much as I do.