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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
adventurous
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
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"She'd gone from being a perfectly ordinary girl in a perfectly ordinary world to becoming a target for water-soluble weirdos and a partner for a skeleton detective out to solve her uncles murder."
- Discovery: Browsing
- Reading Format: Audiobook
- Read Time: 4 Hours
Stephanie Edgely is an introverted twelve-year-old. At her favourite uncles funeral she is left his old creepy house. Her first night there alone a strange man tries to break in and Stephanie is saved by Skulduggery Pleasant. A friend of her grandfathers Mr Pleasant is a detective and walking, talking, fire-throwing skeleton. These two team up together to stand in the way of an all-consuming ancient evil.
Stephanie had the personally of a wet towel draped over a radiator. She has a couple of good one liners but is many there to ask questions on behalf of the reader. Skulduggery Pleasant felt like an irresponsible fun uncle but he never let Stephanie come to any serious harm. No fault of the author but the voice acting was gross to listen to. Rupert sounds like a teenage boy trying to pitch his voice down combined with a subpar Sean Connery impression.
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
medium-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:
N/A
adventurous
dark
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
ah nostalgia, youre such a powerful thing— strong enough that were i to have read this for the first time ever i would have been weirded out by how every single person in this book is so irresponsible
(ghastly tries tho not hard enough, but tanith and skul??? theyre terrible 😭)
(ghastly tries tho not hard enough, but tanith and skul??? theyre terrible 😭)
This book was fun but I didn't fall in love with it. I didn't hate the book, but I didn't particularly like it. I didn't become attached to Stephanie, but I really liked Skulduggery.
I thought I might not love this as much as I used to but I need not have worried. I loved it just as much as I did the first couple times.
I am 99% sure I would have liked this better in paper than I did as an audio. I had a really hard time following it. Which is too bad, because it was funny and exciting, and a cool premise. But Honestly, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what on earth was going on. So the sequel will be traditional book form for me.
Please just read this book. The absolute criminal nature of the wit is so flawless it'll combust at any moment, so you'd better take your chance before every copy spontaneously explodes into swanky dust.
adventurous
funny
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
In meiner Kindheit gelesen und immernoch ein absoluter banger. Der Schreibstil ist unheimlich witty und das Banter zwischen Walküre und Skuldiggery ist wie in jedem Buch ein highlight. Definitiv ein Buch das ich jedem empfehlen würde.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No