Mortal Coil (Skulduggery Pleasant)

In this book, the build up to the final catastrophe is a lot slower. Instead, Valkyrie's personal problems is in the spotlight. And when I say personal problems I mean stuff like getting your heart operated outside of your body and being undead and fun hobbies like that. I hope that all the younger teens that read the beginning of the series have grown up by now, because all the things that are happening made even me a little queasy. Even though the plot is slower, the tension is a lot higher and I almost started to bite my nails in anticipation. In this book, again, I felt like the humor was a little... forced. I can understand that humor helps with the dark topics, but it didn't feel right for me. I was too busy looking out for remnants to appreciate those attempts. All in all, I really liked the book and its suspense, especially the last chapter that opened up too many new questions.

What I really like about Skulduggery, that he is always fair and never hesitates to make decisions - even bad ones. I am glad that the 'strain' bewteen Valkyrie and Skulduggery are kind of sorted out. I must admit that I didn't like the part with Dr. Nye and the name sealing stuff, this was even for the world they all live in odd. A zone of death and only Nye can live in there? Also it's not clear if the Dullahan is a servant or not. The whole Remnant plot is interesting, all sorceres etc. have no way to defend against them.