Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Skulduggery Pleasant (originally published as Scepter of the Ancients) is the first book in the Skulduggery series.

Stephanie’s wealthy, eccentric, famous author uncle has just died - at his desk of natural causes… or has he? Sophie isn’t so sure - not after she meets Skulduggery Pleasant anyway. Meeting a “living” skeleton that can control the elements while making sassy comments would cause anyone to reevaluate what they thought they knew. Soon, Sophie is meeting all sorts of magic people and learns that a secret war is brewing between good and evil - and that her Uncle had been right in the middle of it - as he had uncovered the long lost Sceptre of the Ancients - which, if used would tip the world into darkness.

With the final book in the series being published last year - I can read these without the pesky year long wait between books. I can wait to see what adventurous mess Stephanie and Skulduggery find themselves in next. 

Review: Sharni @ Balwyn

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REVIEWbyU - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, 1) / Marissa Meyer

Reviewer: Sharni

A reimagined fairy tale where Cinderella (now Cinder) is the unwanted adopted cyborg daughter of a once wealthy family. She also happens to be something of a genius with anything mechanical (which is handy when you are part cyborg). An outbreak of plague in New Beijing sets of a chain of events that puts Cinders into the path of the newly crowned Emperor and a possibly mad scientist. Throw into the mix the fact that Cinders has no memories of her biological parents, a sassy android sidekick and an evil Queen bent on world domination – this version of Cinderella leaves the Disney adaptations in the dust and paves the way for the rest of the Lunar Chronicles. 

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