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Skulduggery Pleasant: Audio Collection Books 1-3: The Faceless Ones Trilogy Audiolibro Por Derek Landy arte de portada
  • Skulduggery Pleasant: Audio Collection Books 1-3: The Faceless Ones Trilogy
  • Skulduggery Pleasant, Playing with Fire, The Faceless Ones
  • De: Derek Landy
  • Narrado por: Rupert Degas

Should be a classic!

Total
5 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-17-24

This series is one of my very favorites, and my kid loved it, he started them at age 11 or 12.

BUT: To start off.. I am going to warn that this is NOT FOR LITTLE KIDS. If you wouldn't let your kid read the last couple books in Harry Potter, (I meant because of the death, danger, and violence, along with the other dark-ish content of the books, I'm not even gonna get into the stupid author and all that), then you DEFINITELY wouldn't let them read this, it's got a good amount of violence, fighting, and bloodshed, with pretty thorough descriptions of such. Not to mention that Valkyrie, the main character, deals with the death and/or betrayal of friends, her life being in danger almost constantly and being surrounded by dark and dangerous people, all starting at the age of 12 or 13 when she discovers this hidden world. The bad guys are really really bad/evil, expect them to act accordingly, and to read about the consequences. They also want to either destroy the world, or bring back the Faceless Ones, (dark gods that would probably destroy the world themselves), and they do not care what it takes to do this, they will murder, threaten, and scheme to get what they want.

So.. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, this is not for little kids, (I mean.. I'm not telling you how to parent, just giving my opinion), it depends on how mature the child is, and whether you think they can handle the violence and themes involved. If you're on the fence about it, either read it first or read it with them.

Now, to finish up, this is why I love this book series:
It's a magical world hidden from society.. which we've seen a million times before, but it's so unique from the hundreds of other fantasy books I've read. And the powers are very different from most fantasy books, very cool and interesting, they all match the characters involved perfectly. Magical tattoos, necromancers, (sometimes on the side of good), that put their powers into certain items to help them fight, each in a unique way, there are teleporters, (and it's the first time I've liked teleporters in a story), people who can run up walls and across ceilings to fight.. many different powers I thought were cool. It's about Skulduggery Pleasant, the skeleton detective, (I thought the idea of a skeleton detective was stupid and until I read these books, TBH, but I immediately loved him. He's funny, in a sarcastic, dry way, but not in a stupid silly way), solving crimes and dealing political intrigue and working to save the world from the psychos, with the main character Valkyrie, and teaching her about that world, trading her and what not. There's a whole cast of characters that you will love, (and unfortunately mourn when some of them die.), all are VERY unique and interesting, and so are the villains, very few forgettable characters. if I had to tell you what these books remind me of, it's hard to describe, but if you're an adult and you like the show Supernatural, along with hidden magical societies, and maybe even a little noir/crime solving.. I think you'll like this. If you read Harry Potter before it was ruined for everyone, and you really liked the whole part with The Society of the Phoenix trying to foil and fight against Voldemort's plans, and you wished it focused more on that part of things.. I think that will scratch that itch and become a new favorite, that's mostly unproblematic, as far as I can tell. I hope I didn't scare you off from letting a tween or teen read this series, I would just go with your gut feeling on whether they can handle it. MAYBE read the book first, maybe you'll like it but decide to read it to them later on down the road? The main characters starts out at 12 or 13, and she ages with each book. it's a fairly long series, so you won't run out of stuff to read for a while. I hope you enjoy it as much as my kid and I have.

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Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies III: Firestorm Audiolibro Por Scott M Baker arte de portada

Good, but standard zombie book

Total
4 out of 5 stars
Ejecución
5 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-11-23

There is a "TLDR" at the bottom, but I want to give a little bit longer review on this, but it's not crazy long, and it might help you decide whether this is the book for you.

Pretty much EVERYTHING has been done in this genre. Those of us who love zombie stuff understand this, as long as it's well written, entertaining, and tries to give it their own personal, unique perspective, we're usually happy. If you're looking for a completely new take on the zombie apocalypse, if you're looking for something that's never been done before, if you think every book in the VERY well trodden zombie genre needs to be groundbreaking and change how we think about said genre.. this book is not for you. Also.. I bet you're lots of fun at parties, and SUPER fun to watch movies with. lol.

Even though there's nothing very new or groundbreaking, (though the last chapter of the book has me wondering if that might change in the next book), I was still entertained. I enjoyed having things come from the, (horrible), perspective of the antagonists at points, that was actually something I don't see super often in zombie books, so this wasn't a completely run of the mill zombie book. I will say that, even though there are a lot of tropes, (which I think is kind of unavoidable at this point, no shade to the writer about that), it's written well enough and exciting enough that it doesn't make you want to roll your eyes when you come across a trope you've seen hundreds of times before. You probably wouldn't be reading a zombie book if that was an issue for you anyways, there's not a lot of new ground you CAN break with the genre. I will ALSO say that I haven't consumed much zombie content that had a huge firestorm as part of the obstacles the characters need to overcome, and there's a couple other little interesting things that I haven't seen a ton. So kudos to the writer for using that as a plot device, it actually works.
I'm eternally grateful that we don't have romance taking over half the book, you know certain characters have feelings for each other, but they're too busy thinking about survival, it's great that the writer didn't try to shoe horn in romance that wouldn't be believable considering what these people are going through.
I think the action sequences are done really well, very descriptive, but not to the point of being ridiculous and boring the pants off me while I learn what color socks every zombie is wearing while they swarm and how many times they blink while they're trying to bite. Some of the descriptions of violence or injury/death were pretty brutal, especially when happening to one of the seriously messed up antagonists, but it was somehow kind of satisfying because it's happening to someone who completely deserved that or worse. they were getting their karma and you get a very good description of it. lol. During fight scenes, or other action, I was actually very enthralled, eyes glued to the page, (or ears glued to the..? Narrator? I don't know, lol, hopefully you know what I mean. I both listen to these books on audible and read them on Kindle depending on the situation I'm in and whether I have earbuds), even found myself holding my breath a couple times. That's not common for me, unless I'm very very focused on the story, (difficult to do for someone with ADHD), and very invested in the well-being of the character and the outcome said character will have to deal with, while also needing to know !RIGHT NOW! what's going to happen so bad that.. Wow! I suddenly realize I'm holding my breath.

TLDR: we're not doing a lot that's outside the zombie box here, which is fine if you're a fan of the zombie genre. There's pretty much always something happening, so not a lot of slow moments for a ton of character development, but just enough that you become invested in what happens to them. Pretty entertaining, and I like the main character, (Nurse Alyssa is a little kick-ass baddie, but not in an obnoxious way, cuz she's also a kind and caring individual), I don't dislike any of the group, and I find it refreshing that, even though you know people have feelings for each other, it isn't taking over the story at all.
Also.. we need WAY more of her cat Archer and his nemesis, Sh*thead the dog!! A LOT MORE!! :) lol

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Nurse Alissa vs. the Zombies II Audiolibro Por Scott M. Baker arte de portada

Fairly good.

Total
4 out of 5 stars
Historia
4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 05-06-23

It's a perfectly serviceable zombie book, I liked the first one better, but not bad

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