4.13 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional funny tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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4.25
adventurous dark emotional fast-paced
adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is probably the book where Valkyrie and the rest of the cast feel the most mortal, which is impressive. I genuinely worried that they could die, and the set up right at the start that said she was going to lose someone she cared about... the series has always had stakes, and never ceded to plot armour, but I really felt it this time.

I hate power resets
adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark funny sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

what the hell. what the hell was that. what did i just read. 

THIS is a skulduggery pleasant book. characters were on point, the plot was intriguing and had me second guessing everything the whole time… insanity, more of this please. i will say i found it a bit difficult to keep track of the lore at times but that can be put down to having not read the rest of the series in a number of years.
anywho, despite feeling like i’ve been gutted like a fish, i had a great time reading this one, more so than recent SP books of late. hooray!