Review: #409
Title: Skulduggery Pleasant and the Kingdom of the Wicked
Series: Skulduggery Pleasant - 7th book
Author: Derek Landy
Read Before: no
My Comments: Easily the best Skulduggery Plesant book so far, it was addicting to read from start to finish. The style of writing and plot has improved so much since the earlier books in the series. There is plenty of humour, I found myself laughing and smiling frequently at the character’s dialogue. The sarcasm was well done and added to the book’s charm. The plot was interesting as the main characters went to try and find out what’s causing some weird occurrences and it spiraling out of control. I loved it was revealed that the villain was practically behind everything. That said, the dimension travelling wasn’t the best parts, they were still enjoyable but it felt like it didn’t fit perfectly. The beginning of the book was intriguing and when those characters didn’t appear later on, you would think it was a shame but they do appear from about halfway. One negative is that there is a lot of violence. Many characters are killed, mostly in horrible ways; I guess this is ironic when the villain was supposedly a pacifist. The epilogue also presented a twist which is a long running subplot, it kind of sucks because in the book, the relationship between this character and Valkyrie was presented as strong. This is an amazing book that just keeps throwing stuff at you, making it never feel boring and compelling you to keep going, want to reach the end yet not wanting it to end.
Rating: 8/10
