Meet Skulduggery Pleasant: detective,sorcerer,warrior.
Oh yes. And dead.
Skulduggery Pleasant is gone,sucked into a parallel dimension overrun by the Faceless Ones. If his bones haven't already been turned to dust,chances are he's insane,driven out of his mind by the horror of the ancient gods. There is no official,Sanctuary-approved rescue mission. There is no official plan to save him.
But Valkyrie's never had much time for plans.
The problem is,even if she can get Skulduggery back,there might not be much left for him to return to. There's a gang of villains bent on destroying the Sanctuary,there are some very powerful people who want Valkyrie dead,and as if all that wasn't enough it looks very likely that a sorcerer named Darquesse is going to kill the world and everyone on it.
Skulduggery is gone. All our hopes rest with Valkyrie. The world's weight is on her shoulders,and its fate is in her hands.
These are dark days indeed.
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersISBN: 9780007325979Number of pages: 416Weight: 290 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 27 mm
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Praise for Derek Landy:
'Landy (has the) ability to craft an engaging story from start to finish.'Inis
'Derek Landy has been something of a publishing phenomenon.'Irish Post
Praise for Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days:
'Skulduggery Pleasant: Dark Days is further proof that Landy is down with the kids. He understands what makes them tick and when it comes to action-packed mayhem,hilarious one liners and pure entertainment.'Inis
'This is smart,funny,contemporary fantasy that's up there with the best.'Readings.com
Praise for Skulduggery:
'Hugely enjoyable - a thrill-a-minute adventure.'Jonathan Stroud,author of the BARTIMAEUS TRILOGY
'It's exciting,pacy,nicely handled and fun. I sincerely hope Landy revisits these characters.'Philip Ardagh,Guardian
'Skulduggery Pleasant serves up a thoroughly satisfying blend of humour,magic and adventure. Once you've met Stephanie and Skulduggery,you'll be clamouring for a sequel.'Rick Riordan,author of the PERCY JACKSON series
'Landy's witty style will win him fans of all ages...It's a good job Harry's (Potter) resigning before he's forcibly retired.'Irish Mail on Sunday
'A rip-roaring adventure.'Irish Sunday Independent
Derek Landy
As the helmsman of the wildly-successful Skulduggery Pleasant series,Derek Landy exchanged a life as a sometime writer of screenplays to,almost overnight,becoming one of the world's biggest names in children's fiction. Debuting in 2007,Skulduggery Pleasant took its readers on a wild ride to the undead,where the niece of a famous horror writer suddenly discovers that what he was writing wasn't so fictional after all. In 2015,Landy briefly stepped away from his Skulduggery duties to pen a fresh trilogy for young adults,Demon Road,and as something of a Whovian,contributed a tale to the Doctor Who collection 12 Doctors 12 Stories.
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