Michael wood - Matilda Dark series - spoilers.

[Paranoidandroidmarvin]

I have been working my way through the Matilda Dark series by Michael Wood. And have enjoyed them all.
But I have now got onto the Time is running out book that came out last year. Did anyone else read this one and wtf?

I have read all of them and the latest one os so dark. I wish he hadn't gone there. Too depressing now.

The latest one seems really badly written to me, almost as if someone else has written it.