Favourite Book : Last Stand of Dead Men
(Anyone else notice how my “contributions” to skulduggeryweeks are always super long text posts where I just ramble about random stuff? This is because I lack talent in just about everything else.)
So, LSODM. I was about to say Deathbringer, but realised that I do prefer book 8 of the series. Why? Weeeell.
To me, this will always be the last book where things are still good; between Skulduggery and Valkyrie, but also generally. It’s the last time they just have fun together, which is what the books used to be about: Two best friends having fun and saving the world. I do very much like how the series ended, and I also enjoyef Resurrection, but if you read those books, you probably know what I’m talking about when I say it’s not the same.
This was also the first book that made me truly get how morally grey people can be, and usually are. Sure, until that point in the books there had been China and a few others, but it hadn’t really struck me just how far this can go. I’m not talking about Ravel, but about Valkyrie herself, who gives in to Darquesse while being 100 % aware what it means.
This is something you rarely, if ever, see in children’s books (or any book, actually). Main characters often make bad decisions, but unlike Val, they don’t usually know what the consequences will be. Val knew, and had known for years, and she still gave in. Yes, she was in pain, yes, she would have died otherwise, but she also knew Darquesse would kill her family and the whole world. And I LOVED it.
Okay, don’t get me wrong. This messed me up a little. I was around 14 at the time, so of course it did. But I also think it’s one of the best decisions Landy could have made for that series. In the moment Valkyrie said yes, it became something more than your average book, and this is why it stands out to me the most.
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