#laststandofdeadmen

[skyablo777]

There is no Dead Men,” Skulduggery said, sounding almost surprised that no one else had realised it. “Ghastly and Anton have been murdered. Ravel’s betrayed us. Valkyrie is … gone. The Dead Men have had their last stand and we’ve fallen, Saracen. The three of us are all that remain.” The sounds of war faded for a moment as that quiet, simple fact settled into Vex’s mind. They’d lost members before, but never so many, and they’d never lost one to betrayal. He looked at Saracen and Skulduggery, his friends, his brothers, and although they had history that would hold them together forever, he could feel the bonds between them start to loosen, and fall away. Suddenly Saracen Rue looked old and tired, and Skulduggery Pleasant came into focus as what he really was – a genius, a killer, a tortured soul, and the only true dead man among them.

[sylvilel]

Outside it’s #snowing white kittens, while I’m in here with my #cider enjoying my #annual #reread of the #SkulduggeryPleasant series🤓📚 It’s a #yafantasy series with a skeleton #detective and an #adventurous young girl by the name of Valkyrie Cain. Together they go about saving the world from sadists and #monsters and evil #gods and sometimes themselves. • #DerekLandy is a former(?) screenplay writer with a bunch of zombie horror stuff on his merit list, and his books contain oodles of #action and #horror and #humor and brilliant charachters. Don’t let the funky names put you off. This stuff is #darker than it seems😎 • • • • • #readinganddrinking #readingisbelieving #laststandofdeadmen #decemberreads #bookrecommendation #bookreview #bokanbefaling #bokelsker #booklover #bookphotography #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bokstagram #geekstagram

[rosewatergrapefruit]

Oh God Theories (for entry to dead men network)

If you haven't read the Skulduggery Pleasant Series, shoo. Off with you. go read them, then talk to me. If you have, continue normally.

Okay so you know how there are three trilogies (book 1-3, 4-6, and 7-9)

Well the tone is different for all of them.

In the first, its a children's series, although superior. The humour is witty, the action exciting, and the characters amazing. At the end of the day, Valkyrie is okay, Skulduggery makes a wise crack, and they go have pizza. THs also reflects Valkyries perception of the magical world. She sees it as an escape form her boring life, and Skulduggery as the man who brought her in to the magical world. 

And then the end of The Faceless Ones happens and suddenly Valkyrie realizes how much someone could lose being a part of this world. 

The second trilogy is all about us falling more and more in love with the characters while also realizing they're not exactly the good guys. I mean, first you have Valkyrie realizing shes going to destroy the world and kill her family, and then she realizes the man she looks up to, her best friend, has done awful, awful things, killed mercilessly, murdered innocents,  and she realizes that the separations between good and bad are blurred. This is when the humour gets raunchier, the battles more intense, and one liners more wise cracking. But in the end, everyone's still alive and things are okay.

And then trilogy 3. 

KOTW was the tamest. The end was pretty crazy, and it involves things such as prisoner torture, dimension travel, and religious espionage.

And then LSODM. Oh damn, this was intense. So much sadness.All the tears. Much betrayal and character death. So all I can say is that with the escalating sadness, of the books, and all those suspicious Derek Landy tweets, Book 9 is gonna be soooooooooooo craaaazy and awesome and awful and sad and cool and I can't even

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[loveskulduggerypleasant]

Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men