{"id":84,"date":"2008-03-24T23:25:38","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T03:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/24\/review-of-skulduggery-pleasant-by-derek-landy\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T21:08:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T01:08:36","slug":"review-of-skulduggery-pleasant-by-derek-landy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Review of Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image102\" height=\"240\" alt=\"skulduggery_pleasant.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/skulduggery_pleasant.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Skulduggery Pleasant, <\/em>by Derek Landy<\/p>\n<p>Performed by Rupert Degas<\/p>\n<p>Harper Audio, 2007.\u00a0 7 1\/2 hours.\u00a0 6 compact discs.<\/p>\n<p>I would love to meet a well-dressed detective with a voice like Skulduggery Pleasant.\u00a0 The narrator does a magnificent job of making him sound tough and reliable and a hero to turn to when\u00a0young Stephanie Edgely\u00a0needs saving from deathly peril.\u00a0 His Irish accent is irresistible.\u00a0 When he turns out to be a living skeleton, we find we still want him on our side.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie\u00a0is plunged into a world of magic and ancient evil after her uncle&#8217;s death.\u00a0 She comes close to death countless times as she finds herself working with Skulduggery to try to save the world.<\/p>\n<p>This book is full of action and narrow escapes.\u00a0 The banter between Stephanie and Skulduggery is full of fun, wit, and affection.<\/p>\n<p>The magic world Derek Landy creates &#8212; the one that ordinary people don&#8217;t know about but goes on around us &#8212; is much darker and more sinister than Harry Potter&#8217;s.\u00a0 The villains here are truly evil, and there are some gruesome deaths.<\/p>\n<p>But most of all, this is\u00a0a fun and captivating adventure yarn.\u00a0 The narration is completely magnificent, and found me wanting to linger in my car even after I&#8217;d reached my destination.<\/p>\n<p>The things that happen to people (in the past of the story and its present) are horrible and gruesome enough that I would save this book for teens and up.\u00a0 But for those who don&#8217;t mind a little grit in the story, I highly recommend this book.\u00a0 Better yet, listen to the audio version and enjoy the Irish accents!<\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/skulduggery_pleasant.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Teens\/skulduggery_pleasant.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skulduggery Pleasant, by Derek Landy Performed by Rupert Degas Harper Audio, 2007.\u00a0 7 1\/2 hours.\u00a0 6 compact discs. I would love to meet a well-dressed detective with a voice like Skulduggery Pleasant.\u00a0 The narrator does a magnificent job of making him sound tough and reliable and a hero to turn to when\u00a0young Stephanie Edgely\u00a0needs saving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audiobooks","category-fantasy","category-mystery","category-teen-fiction-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}