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A review by marthmuffins
Dark Days by Derek Landy
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Dark Days - 2.5/5
Somewhat meh for me. I thought the.
This is a case of me letting expections drag down my opinion of a book instead of trying to review it on it's own merits as it is, but I can't really get away from those in the end and I'm left with just a feeling of meh around this whole novel. Still, we'll see where the rest of the series goes!
Somewhat meh for me. I thought the
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cliffhanger to the last book was wrapped up far too quickly and cleanly, with Skulduggery back in action and, outside of a few minor events where his mind slips, he's largely back to normal and back into action. There's a whole book in getting Skulduggery back, the world of the Faceless Ones, and dealing with the impact of Skulduggery's time in there but the book just rushes through it to get to a fairly standard plot about the side-villains from the previous trilogy trying to get back at our heroes and some vague new end-of-the-world threat foreshadowing. That stuff was fun and all, and there are some great setpieces and ideas like the Midnight Hotel and vampire lair, but it feels anti-climatic coming off of book 3This is a case of me letting expections drag down my opinion of a book instead of trying to review it on it's own merits as it is, but I can't really get away from those in the end and I'm left with just a feeling of meh around this whole novel. Still, we'll see where the rest of the series goes!