Except, perhaps, the fire-flinging Valkyrie and her dead mentor. With the Grostequery and the magical armor of the powerful necromancer Lord Vile, nothing can stand in the Baron's way. His plan involves summoning a beast known as the Grotesquery, a Frankenstein-like hodgepodge of body bits. (In a clever nod to This is Spinal Tap, Skulduggery notes that on the villain scale of one to ten, Vengeous "turns it all the way up to eleven.") The Baron, much like Serpine from the first book, is on a mission to revive the Faceless Ones from the dead. But the victory is short-lived as a new, far more powerful adversary appears on the scene.īaron Vengeous, a terrible baddie from Skulduggery's past, escapes from prison. As the story unfolds, the pair defeats a homicidal villain known as Scapegrace, who sees his intended killing spree as a form of art. Well into her apprenticeship with Skulduggery, Valkyrie Cain - the girl formerly known as Stephanie Edgley - is fighting alongside her sardonic teacher. The cover of Derek Landy's inaugural SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT novel shows the eponymous skeleton in his trademark hat and sunglasses next to the legend, "And he's the good guy." Good doesn't even begin to describe the fun to be found between the covers of that book and, fortunately for readers, the second installment in the series, SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT: PLAYING WITH FIRE, takes the fun to a whole new level.
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