Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dead Detective

Advantages: keeps you mesmerized for hours
Disadvantages: ...

...the sequel is exactly the same apart from the fact that it's not orange, however it's green) Now this book is about the main character Skulduggery Pleasant, but personally I think "Derek Landy", The Author, has nicked a bit of Shakespeare's writing technique as, like Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Derek doesn't start off with the main character, however we follow a girl called Stephanie Edgley. Now I...

Jonni_boi 21.10.2008 21:14 · Read review
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Review of Skulduggery Pleasant - Derek Landy

Magic, murder and mayhem for Skulduggery

Advantages: It is likely to appeal to it's teen audience
Disadvantages: It's not likely to appeal to anyone else

...sitting alone, unloved, in a corner of my desk for another week. Eventually I set my trepidation aside and, feeling better prepared, began to read. Was it worth the setting aside of my prejudices? Publication history It?s useful to note now, if you?re not up to date with children?s fiction, that this is the third in a series of books based around the partnership between Skulduggery Pleasant...

brokenangelkisses 09.08.2012 13:09 · Read review
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Review of Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones - Derek Landy

Every Spell Has A Snag

Advantages: A rattling magical adventure with lots of laughs
Disadvantages: None

...the funeral, and again to the reading of the will. A very thin man, in a large overcoat and scarf and trilby hat, which he never removes. A very very thin man. Mr Skulduggery Pleasant is introduced as a friend of Uncle Gordon. In the will he is left a piece of advice. With the kind of plot contrivance you have to accept if you want your hero to be a child, Stephanie finds herself spending the night...

hiker 13.06.2011 11:23 · Read review
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