Skulduggery Pleasant is a living skeleton. If that isn’t amazing enough for you, he’s also a magic-wielding detective. And, as the book’s cover puts it, “he’s the good guy.”

Investigating Gordon Edgley’s mysterious death, he ends up teaming-up with Gordon’s niece Stephanie. What starts as a simple murder investigation quickly turns into a race to obtain an ancient magical artifact before the murderer. The plot runs through Stephanie and Skulduggery’s misadventures as they stumble through the numerous plot-twists, slowly figuring out their ultimate goal.

It’s hard to describe the book. It’s totally different from anything out there, so I’m not going to go too much into details. Read it yourself.

Skulduggery Pleasant is a great book, filled with magic, humor, and numerous plot-twists. I wasn’t joking about the book being filled with humor, either. It’s hard to get through a page without running into at least two hilarious lines.

LibRate rating: 4.5.

Also note that Warner Brothers has just obtained filming rights.

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