Book Review: Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy
A series of I think at the last count twelve books...
It all starts with a detective...a dead detective...who happens to be a skeleton (well that is kinda what happens when you have been dead for a while).
Blurb from the first book:
Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective, sorcerer, warrior.
Oh yeah. And dead.
Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.
Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source – the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard.
When all hell breaks loose, it's lucky for Skulduggery that he's already dead. Though he's about to discover that being a skeleton doesn't stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there's anything Skulduggery hates, it's torture… Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing's for sure: evil won't know what's hit it.
Fast paced books with lots of elemental magic, fabulously inventive characters and lots of humour and action.
For more information: http://www.skulduggerypleasant.co.uk/ or http://www.skulduggerypleasant.com/
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