Skulduggery Pleasant
by Derek Landy
Book Review by Mannix Fraser
Genre: a fiction, action, adventure and mystery.
Skulduggery Pleasant book 1 is about a girl Stephanie
and her uncle, who writes horror fiction books then he sadly dies. At his
funeral Stephanie sees a man standing out of the crowd, he was hiding his
identity with a scarf around his neck and a hat covering his face. When Stephanie
and her family return to their house for the reading of her uncle’s will, the
strange man also joins them. No one
knows who this stranger is, but when the will is being read, it all becomes
clearer. The strange man is her uncle’s closest friend and name is Skulduggery
Pleasant. Her uncle gives his house to Stephanie but can only take possession
when she’s 16.
Stephanie goes to her Uncle’s house to reflect on her life with
him. While she is there the weather
changes and it rains heavy and floods the drive way so she has to stay the
night. Someone rings the phone saying “Give it to me,” she doesn’t know who he is
so she hangs up. Later that night the man breaks into the house threatening
Stephanie. Skulduggery Pleasant comes in and burns the man with his magic and
he reveals to her his true identity, he’s a skeleton. He introduced himself to
Stephanie and tells her he thinks the evil mastermind Serpine sent his henchman
hands on the powerful sceptre that he thinks is at her uncle’s house. He tells
the Elders but they say its nonsense because Serpine has been helping them.
After
a few clues and meeting friends along the way Skulduggery finds out Serpine is
after the book of names and it has everyone’s 3 names. The name you’re given
from your parents, the name you pick and your special name that you should not
tell anyone.
The main Characters are: Skulduggery Pleasant,
Stephanie/Valkyrie Cain, Ghastly Bepspoke, China Sorrows and Serpine.
I think it was a great book because it keeps you
wondering what’s going to happen next and gives some surprising twists at the
end.
I think the message is don’t give up on what you do
because in the book Skulduggery doesn’t give up on finding Serpine. When the elders say he isn’t behind Stephanie’s
uncle’s death he keeps going.
By Mannix Fraser
Hi Mannix, I enjoyed reading your book review, I chose it because I have read this book too. I thought you wrote about the characters well and you made the book sound mysterious and interesting. I liked the message of the story that you should never give up
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