I first heard of Skulduggery on NPR and was interested. After I found a copy and was delighted with it's approach, I thought of it for this project. I have nothing but the best wishes for the author, Derek Landy, and his efforts.
“The world is bigger than you know, and scarier than you might imagine. The only currency worth anything is being true to yourself, and the only goal worth seeking is finding out who you truly are.”
“What is it?' Stephanie whispered.
'That, my dear Valkyrie, is what we call a monster.'
She looked at Skulduggery. 'You don't know what it is, do you?'
'I told you what it is, it's a horrible monster. Now shut up before it comes over here and eats us.”
“Doors are for people with no imagination.”
“I don’t “blurb” many books, but this one I recommend without hesitation. My whole family loves them.”
Rick Riordan (author of the Percy Jackson series)
"The author just may have invented a new genre: the screwball fantasy." —The New York Times Book Review
"This story rocks." —The Miami Herald
"A fast-paced, movie-ready read." —The New York Daily News
"Readers will be skipping meals and sleep to get to the end." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Skulduggery is as caustic and witty as Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus, but a man (er, skeleton) of fewer words. An utterly charming debut, perfect for the Potter crowd." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A fun and quirky mix of magic, mystery, and lots of humor." —Locus Magazine
"A high-intensity tale shot through with spectacular magic battles, savage mayhem, cool outfits, monsters, hidden doors, over-the-top names, narrow escapes, evil schemes and behavior heroic, ambiguous and really, really bad." — The Book Standard
WINNER of the Bord Gais Energy Irish Book of the Decade
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