Thursday, December 1, 2016

Skulduggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

In a special world, close near, lives a girl named Stephanie living in the real world without things trying to kill her. One day, a person comes to her house and he breaks in, but then a person named Skulduggery Pleasant comes to save the day. He shoots the man that broke into the house, and throws fire even! Stephanie is wondering what is happening to her at the moment. Then realizes Skulduggery is a living Skeleton. Stephanie is on a journey that can save her Uncle’s path and her ancestry.

Stephanie and Skulduggery are fighting evil minions of Serpine, the descendant of the great evil Mevolent. Skulduggery keeps finding clues as they go on, and Stephanie gets into more magic and tries to learn some. Stephanie and Skulduggery are quickly caught up in a battle to stop evil forces from acquiring her recently deceased uncle's most prized possession—the Sceptre of the Ancients. The Ancients were the good guys, an extinct race of uber-magicians from the early days of the earth, and the scepter is their most dangerous weapon, one capable of killing anyone and destroying anything.


And so Stephanie and Skulduggery set their course to find the ancient scepter.Defeating Serpine’s minions and ferocious vampires. They prove that the Faceless Ones and Ancients are not real and to stop evil forces coming to this magical world. Discover new magic and monsters with Skulduggery and Stephanie.


Book Review by Matthew S.

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