Kill Fish Jones

by Caro King

Meet Grimshaw and Lampwick the Robber, a curse demon and his master, stuck in Limbo and getting on each others nerves. Grimshaw hasn’t had a chance to unleash any destruction in the Real World since Lampwick’s death bed curses years ago.

When Lampwick has an unexpected opportunity to curse a whole new set of humans, Grimshaw can’t believe his luck!

There is one young boy on Grimshaw’s list: Fish Jones. But Fish has unworldly talents of his own. Unlike other humans, he can see Grimshaw. And as Grimshaw’s destructive inventiveness intensifies, it is matched by Fish’s ability to escape. Why is Fish able to avoid the curse? And when Grimshaw plans to wreak the ultimate destruction, not just on Fish, but on the world, will young Jones’s power be enough to stop him?

Full of humour and wild imagination.

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Demons, Adventure

316 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2011

About the author

CARO KING was born in London and raised in Surrey. She did a foundation art course at university and tackled a series of widely varied jobs before joining the Civil Service, working in the Official Receiver's office. She now works part-time and lives in Surrey with her husband, Kevin, writing and restoring their Edwardian house.

Seven Sorcerers came from a rainy lunchtime when she began mapping out the world of the Drift. Skerridge and his waistcoat came later.

Reviews

[Sem · Rating 5 out of 5]

It seems that no one has written a review for this book and that's a damned shame because it has everything that I came to love while reading her other two - less humour perhaps and more grizzly deaths but the humour is there (subtle and understated), the deaths make one take the curse demon seriously, as one must (and as Fish does), the setting is - well, let's just say that it reminded me of The Great Divorce and, like The Great Divorce, this book has a no-nonsense moral fibre. The characters are fantastic, each and every one of them, and the ending... the ending is perfect. In fact, it was a 'spoiler' of sorts in a review elsewhere that led me to put this at the top of my reading list. Starting with her other books isn't a bad idea, but unless you have an aversion to grizzly deaths, you'll like this one, too.

[Qasim Reddy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lamwick the robber cursed anyone who touched his grave before he died and placed a demon there to make sure the curse got through,fish Jones father and uncle had done construction around the grave,and the demon started killing all the people they loved. The thing I liked about the book was the authors style of writing and the way he described the characters. I would recommend this book because it is full of humour and wild imagination.

[Maynerd · Rating 3 out of 5]

Weird, but not in a bad way. Eccentric plot and characters, writing was pretty good. I owe my understanding of the word 'limbo' to this book haha.

I recommend this to middle school kids, it'd really add variety to all the repetitive fantasy books on their shelves.

[Freya Robinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the characters and the plot twist at the end was expected but still great and the world building was fantastic.
10/10