Skulduggery Pleasant (10) – Resurrection

I love this series. My favourite book series ever, the dialogue alone makes reading the books worth it. I love Tanith, Ghastly [:(], Skulduggery, Valkyrie, Darkess, Stephany... Even Berrel. What I don't like is that, while there is potential for a really interesting book (full of how Valkyrie recovers from her trauma - lots of opportunities for fights and crazy dream/hallucination sequences), it didn't really focus on her. This book seems to be more focused around Omen Darkley, and seems to be headding towards him becoming the new sidekick, now that Valkrie is getting older. He's a very bland and boring character, and not just because he's not the 'chosen one' [not a spoiler]. I am not at all interested in his storyline and the Chemistry between him and Skulduggery just isn't there. He's not as smart as Valkrie, making his weakness really annoying (Val got round her problems in the early books by thinking about it - and then kicking something). While Val was a weak, whiney child in the first books, it was entertaining because she was smart, capable, motivated and humorous. Omen is unmotivated, clumsy, and not very bright. He is also overly eager-to-please. He's not funny and I didn't enjoy reading the sections about him. If he is made into the main character I will not be reading any more of the series.

It was a good read and I like how omen and the other new characters are developing. Also I think that if landy so chose he could continue from this book but that said I found the book to be off beat or to explain not as great as the originals but still a good first step in continuing this series all in all should the series be revived I will read it till all suspicions I have are answered

Hearkens back to the first book. I guess I was expecting more after all the bloodshed that was Dying of the Light. But I can see things are going to get alot more interesting from here on