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Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

6 reviews

mossgoblins's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Blood, Confinement, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, and Car accident

Minor: Stalking, Child death, and Grief

breamfish1138's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Harry Potter but with Gothic horror, anarchic dark humour, delightfully non-age-appropriate violence and emos. Also there's skeletons and vampires and scythe guys and a dash of cosmic nightmare and fireballs and bullets and scary hands and vampires and bullets. Derek, you done good. 10/10 would recommend  to everyone 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Grief, Blood, Torture, Stalking, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Body horror and Cursing

OK so all the Skulduggery Pleasant books are more violent and dark than your average kids/YA fare and this one is no different. Kids 11-14 will probably just find the violence fun tbh.

sophieamreacher's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Fun, full of adventure and action. Found the characters a bit unbelievable (yes even though they’re all magical), more their personalities. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Death, Violence, Gun violence, and Murder

grrrlbrarian's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Car accident, Death, and Kidnapping

Minor: War and Murder

our_bookish_reads's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Medical trauma, and Murder

sphinxy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I was not expecting 3 so different genres to work well together but Landy completely changed my mind! Very well written and a great read for people both young and old. The comedy relief is well timed and fits well with the characters and personalities created

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Torture and Vomit