The Haunted House on Hollow Hill: New for 2024, an epic fantasy adventure in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant universe
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I'm heartbroken. I simply didn't enjoy this like I thought I would. I liked it, don't get me wrong. But it didn't feel like a typical Skulduggery. We get the amazing writing (heck, even that was different), the sarcasm, the banter... but somehow it felt like a normal whodunnit with a ghost or something like that. The other books were more magical, if you get my drift. It was tol in the present tense which was something that threw me off. Every other chapter or paragraph started with "We're with Skulduggery now" or "We're now at the reception". Skulduggery Pleasant books never were put like this and personally, I don't like it. There was so little magic, at least that's what it felt like to me. The characters were completely over the top (Romeo was despicable and it was too much), I don't know if that was the case in the former books and I just really noticed it in this one or if it just me being extra sensitive... The last books grew. They even got political with the dimwhit in the White House - where was that here? This review is coming out completey scrambled but I just can't put it down in any other way. I still love Skulduggery and Valkyrie and will definetly be back for more, I just hope the series picks back up again. This felt like it was just a filler... Have you read this? (This was out in September and although I follow Landy's work, I only learned about the release like three days ago. Haven't seen it on Goodreads either.)
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I'm heartbroken. I simply didn't enjoy this like I thought I would. I liked it, don't get me wrong. But it didn't feel like a typical Skulduggery. We get the amazing writing (heck, even that was different), the sarcasm, the banter... but somehow it felt like a normal whodunnit with a ghost or something like that. The other books were more magical, if you get my drift. It was tol in the present tense which was something that threw me off. Every other chapter or paragraph started with "We're with Skulduggery now" or "We're now at the reception". Skulduggery Pleasant books never were put like this and personally, I don't like it. There was so little magic, at least that's what it felt like to me. The characters were completely over the top (Romeo was despicable and it was too much), I don't know if that was the case in the former books and I just really noticed it in this one or if it just me being extra sensitive... The last books grew. They even got political with the dimwhit in the White House - where was that here? This review is coming out completey scrambled but I just can't put it down in any other way. I still love Skulduggery and Valkyrie and will definetly be back for more, I just hope the series picks back up again. This felt like it was just a filler... Have you read this? (This was out in September and although I follow Landy's work, I only learned about the release like three days ago. Haven't seen it on Goodreads either.)