READ BY RUPERT DEGAS. ItтАЩs 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, heтАЩs 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, itтАЩs tense, and itтАЩs packed with all the eye-popping action, crackling one liners and imaginative set pieces youтАЩve come to expect. ThereтАЩs a new threat to our plucky heroine, of course. But thatтАЩs not all. ThereтАЩs also the little fact of the Big Bad, the uber-baddy whoтАЩs 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.)
Will Skulduggery make it out of the Faceless OnesтАЩ dimension? Who knows. The problem is, he may not have much to come back to...
Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead."