The Faceless Ones review
Jul. 5th, 2010 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearWhy am I still reading Skulduggery Pleasant books, I ask myself? I guess they're entertaining enough, but I always lose interest just as the climax begins and end up skimming through all the action so I can move on to something else.
The interesting thing about The Faceless ones (the third in the series by Derek Landy) is that it seems other people had the same problem with the cavalier attitude to violence in the first two and someone must have mentioned it to the author. The reason I think that is because four or five times in the first couple of chapters, it makes mention of how Valkyrie is having nightmares about all the horrible things she's seen, and how she wants to block out the memories of her adventures.
Of course, she then spend the rest of the book telling adults to mind their own business when they try to persuade her to stop adventuring with Skilduggery, and the story is just as flippantly violent as before.
Hey ho - it does end on an intriguing cliff-hanger, and there are hints of interesting background information about Skulduggery that might be revealed in later books, but I think I'm done now.
The interesting thing about The Faceless ones (the third in the series by Derek Landy) is that it seems other people had the same problem with the cavalier attitude to violence in the first two and someone must have mentioned it to the author. The reason I think that is because four or five times in the first couple of chapters, it makes mention of how Valkyrie is having nightmares about all the horrible things she's seen, and how she wants to block out the memories of her adventures.
Of course, she then spend the rest of the book telling adults to mind their own business when they try to persuade her to stop adventuring with Skilduggery, and the story is just as flippantly violent as before.
Hey ho - it does end on an intriguing cliff-hanger, and there are hints of interesting background information about Skulduggery that might be revealed in later books, but I think I'm done now.
