Skulduggery Pleasant, Derek Landy

Stephenie Edgley has quite a normal life until her uncle, Gordon, dies. In his will, he gives Stephanie all his estates and a mysterious man named Skulduggery Pleasant a simple saying. The next night, Stephenie and her mum go to visit the estates and the car breaks down. Stephenie stays at the mansion while her mum goes to fix the car when a man knocks on her window asking to come in. When Stephenie disagrees, the man breaks the window and enters the house. Unexpectedly, a man comes to Stephenie’s rescue and hurls fireballs towards the other man. When Stephenie’s rescuer defeats the man and introduces himself as Skulduggery Pleasant, Stephenie gets shocked as he is well and truly a skeleton. As Stephenie becomes more acquainted with Skulduggery, she learns that there’s a whole world of magicians living on Earth. Skullduggery’s a wizard-detective who believes Gordon was murdered and did not die of a heart attack. So, Stephenie and Skullduggery set off on a journey to find out who killed Gordon and why.

Skulduggery Pleasant is an extremely funny book. I find it is well written and very original as a story. Derek Landy thinks of every thing and puts it together so well that when he mentions something you say” Oh yeah” or” That’s incredible!”. I have read the first three books of the series and they all carry the same style of writing. Humoristic and full of action.

~ by Raphy T. on May 24, 2009.