Dark Days (Skulduggery Pleasant, #4)

by Derek Landy

It’s the fourth Skulduggery Pleasant adventure… only Skulduggery Pleasant himself is lost on the other side of a portal, with only some evil gods for company. Can he possible survive? (Yes, all right, he’s already dead. But still.)

What can we say, without giving too much away?

Not much, is the answer.

But what we CAN say is that this book is hilarious, it’s tense, and it’s packed with all the eye-popping action, crackling one liners and imaginative set pieces you’ve come to expect. There’s a new threat to our plucky heroine, of course. But that’s not all. There’s also the little fact of the Big Bad, the uber-baddy who’s going to come along and really, really destroy the world. (Really.) And what we learn about that villain in this book will literally make your jaw fall off and your hair go white with shock. (Not really.)

• ISBN13: 9780007325962
• Publish Date: 1 April 2010
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 12 October 2010
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 320
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.co.uk

Reviews

[thepunktheory]

Full review on my Full review on my blog coming soon!


So, what to do with this novel? I'll keep the review short, I promise!
I like the idea of the story but the final product was a tiny bit mediocre for me. It's a solid book but in comparison with the other three so far, it was a little weak. (At least for a good chunk!)
For more than half of the book, it felt like a filler. You know, setting up things for the next story. What you'd usually squeeze into a prologue instead of spreading it into a full novel.
So, for quite a while the story was dragging a good deal. However, once we reached the last third, we finally picked up momentum and things got more exciting. That made me really happy as I had tremendously enjoyed the book series so far!
Despite the slow start (and middle), the latter part came with quite a few surprises, and now I'm even more intrigued to read the next books.
I love Valkyrie but the search for Skulduggery's head was a bit slow and even after he was back it took a moment for the story to get its groove back. Nevertheless, with all the things we know now, the next novels are set up for greatness. I can feel it in my bones!

[alindstadtcorbeax]

Star Rating: —> 5 [HOLY SH*T!] Stars

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