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Monday, March 23, 2015

Book Review by Kelsey


Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy


Skulduggery Pleasant is the first in a series of nine books.
Twelve-year-old Stephanie Edgely was surprised when she was asked to attend the reading of her recently deceased, extremely rich, uncle Gordon’s funeral; and she was even more surprised when he left her his mansion and fortune. This is only of the beginning of the strangeness that is about to turn Stephanie’s life upside-down. At the reading of the will, Stephanie meets a very peculiar man by the name of Skulduggery Pleasant. She is even more shocked to discover exactly how peculiar he is a few days later when he saves her life from a fire-proof psychopath who breaks into her uncles house while she is there alone. Skulduggery is a walking, talking, skeleton detective and sorcerer who has an incredible wit and an ego the size of the Pacific Ocean. After some convincing on Stephanie’s part, Skulduggery takes her on as his apprentice. Stephanie is transported from her mundane, small-town life to a world of sorcery, magic, and danger. She soon takes on the wicked-cool moniker of Valkyrie Cain. 
Do not read this book unless you can handle sequences of intense violence.

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