Skulduggery Pleasant (14) – Dead or Alive

De: Derek Landy

Narrado por: Kevin Hely

Skulduggery, Valkyrie and Omen return in the 14th and penultimate novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series – and their most epic test yet…

In a matter of days, the world will change.

Billions of lives will be wiped away in a final, desperate search for the Child of the Faceless Ones — she who is destined to bring about the return of humankind's ancient overlords.

To prevent this, Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain have one last – terrible – option: the assassination of Damocles Creed. With protests stirring in the magical city of Roarhaven, with riots and revolutions on the horizon, Valkyrie must decide who she wants to be: the hero who risks everything for a noble ideal, or the killer who sacrifices her own soul for the fate of humanity.

The decision must be made, and time is running out.

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Praise for Derek Landy:

‘Landy [has the] ability to craft an engaging story from start to finish.’ Inis

‘Derek Landy has been something of a publishing phenomenon.’ Irish Post

Praise for Skulduggery Pleasant:

'A gripping debut.' Phil Hogan, Observer

‘Landy's witty style will win him fans of all ages … It's a good job Harry's [Potter] resigning before he's forcibly retired.’ Irish Mail on Sunday

'Hugely enjoyable – a thrill-a-minute adventure.' Jonathan Stroud, author of the BARTIMAEUS TRILOGY

'It's exciting, pacy, nicely handled and fun. I sincerely hope Landy revisits these characters.' Philip Ardagh, Guardian

'Skulduggery Pleasant serves up a thoroughly satisfying blend of humour, magic and adventure. Once you've met Stephanie and Skulduggery, you'll be clamouring for a sequel.' Rick Riordan, author of the PERCY JACKSON series

‘A remarkably accomplished debut with wonderful dialogue.’ Robert Dunbar, Irish Times

‘A rip-roaring adventure.’ Irish Sunday Independent

As always a great read

If you're this far I to the series, then you already know why these books are so good.
This book doesn't disappoint.

very funny

super funny, had me laughing out loud, the story is decent. the narrator is no way near as good as the one that has previously narrated skulduggery pleasant but he was ok

It's basically the MCU at his point

I can go on and on about how Landy doesn't know what to do with a good plot anymore even if he accidentally stumbles into one, with this book's promising start that he completely botches being a prime example, however I am instead fascinated to dive into the best analogy I have for the series' downfall after the 9th book: it's just like the MCU. Now, we can disagree on when it happened exactly, but we can all agree the MCU ended up falling from grace post endgame. The movies end up spiraling into the rehashing of old plots, witty oneliners and impressive battle scenes with zero imaginative breaking of the status quo, all sense of innovation, attention to detail, ambition or straight up heart fully vanished. This is exactly what these books feel like. "Dead or Alive" in particular is "The Eternals" at worst and "Quantumania" at best, make of that what you will.

At least the narration slightly lessened the damage from this overall failure of literature.