Skulduggery Pleasant

Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 1

By: Derek Landy

Narrated by: Rupert Degas

Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

She's 12. He's dead. But together they're going to save the world. Hopefully.

The iconic first book in the best-selling Skulduggery Pleasant series.

Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer....

©2018 Derek Landy (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers

Truly obnoxious sound effects

The story was overwhelmed by a chapter endings which -every single one of them- included a man whispering “yeahhhh” and a woman screaming. As well as obnoxious jazz interludes. It was impossible to like the story as I spent every chapter beginning and end gritting my teeth and hating everyone involved in this production.

So much fun!

I didn't quite know what to expect from this book. But it had good reviews - and it was on sale, so I took a chance. As the audio started I was wondering if I would be able to tolerate the voice. Before you know it I was under the spell. My husband and I absolutely LOVED the dark whit and snappy comebacks. The spooky sounds and jazzy music between the chapters gives it a sort of Halloweenish character, another good thing. Speaking of characters, they are great - in a completely crazy magical sort of way. Rupert Degas was brilliant with the voices - so much so that everything came to life, just like magic. Hmm.... The next book in the series is already in my queue.

Highest Snark Levels Detected

I am in love with this book. it is so good!
I kind of hate how long the music goes at the beginning and the end. It just seems to carry on and on. I really love these characters though and the story was excellent. I can't wait to have kids because I am so playing this series on road trips for them.

Obsessed

I love this series so much words cannot describe. I've been reading it since I myself was 12 years old and it influenced my character growing up.

Clean Fun For Kids

This is just a good fun book I listened to because my daughter (10) was reading the series.
it is just plane fun no apologies campy fiction and I loved it. I plan to finish the series.

"A penchant for raising Cain.."

An exciting read, full of action, mystery and copious amounts of wit. The language flows, the narrative is compelling and the narrator, in this case Rupert Degas brings to life the story of a murder being solved by a dead man. Highly recommend!

Fluctuating power levels make for meh

I listened to this 6 months ago and I still remember that my biggest impression was that a mix of the fluctuating power levels(“ancient sorcerers” get beat like a drum and don’t know what seems like it should be fairly basic knowledge for someone who has had centuries to study magic) and there wasn’t much digging into the magic system. I wanted more detail and consistency in power levels between characters. It made it harder for me to suspend my disbelief.

Loved it

Everything about this experience was spectacular! The narrator was wonderful. I loved that I could feel the tension from his voice. Not once did I think he was boring or stiff. I loved the interlude music it was a nice touch. I'd already read the story so I knew I was going to enjoy it there was no problem on that end. As a reader of Rick Riordan I have to say the sass was much appreciated I think both Stephanie and Skulduggery could give Percy a run for his money!

enjoyable

I must say that I enjoyed the music at the beginning and end of the chapters it did this perfectly, some other audiobooks I've heard have done the same thing but cut off dialogue into the chapters or the music is louder then expected and hurts the ear.

The characters were fun and the laws of magic in this book were interesting.

Very great listen.

This book is an extremely good passive read to have on in the background of life as it goes on ykwim?