Derek Landy

The eighth instalment in the biggest, funniest, most thrilling comedy-horror-adventure series in the universe - and the follow-up to the number-one bestseller, Kingdom of the Wicked…

War has finally come.

But it's not a war between good and evil, or light and dark – it's a war between Sanctuaries. For too long, the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink of world-ending disaster, and the other Sanctuaries around the world have had enough. Allies turn to enemies, friends turn to foes, and Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with the rest of the Dead Men if they're going to have any chance at all of maintaining the balance of power and getting to the root of a vast conspiracy that has been years in the making.

But while this war is only beginning, another war rages within Valkyrie herself. Her own dark side, the insanely powerful being known as Darquesse, is on the verge of rising to the surface. And if Valkyrie slips, even for a moment, then Darquesse will burn the world and everyone in it.

Last Stand of Dead Men (Skulduggery Pleasant)

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"I was pretty good, once upon a time. I picked up an old one in the sixties and I was taught by one of the best guitarists of the era." 

"Angelo Bartolotti. This was the 1660s." 

"It was a whole different instrument back then. But you didn't come here to talk about my musical past as a Baroque chick, did you?"

What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?

"Should we change our name?" Saracen asked. "The Dead People, perhaps?" "The Dead Non-Gender-Specific Persons?" Vex suggested. "Dead Men and a Girl? Dead Men and a Little Lady?"

"Gracious is book-smart," said Donegan. "He leaves the real-world thinking to people like you and me and small dogs that he meets."

"I don't want a perfectly safe weapon. I want a dangerous weapon that hurts people." 

He took the stick from her, rapped it against her head. She howled and he nodded. "See? It hurts people." She grabbed it off him, smacked it against his skull. "Ow," he said.

Skulduggery had once told Valkyrie the names of the various sections of the battlements. He'd told her to think of the wall as the gums of an old man-the gums themselves were called crenels, and the jutting teeth were merlons. Valkyrie had forgotten the lesson within minutes. Stephanie remembered everything.

Adora Cain

Rose Donovan

“I was pretty good once upon a time. I picked up an old one in the sixties and I was taught by one of the best guitarists of the era.”

“Angelo Bartolotti. This was the 1660s.”

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