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Skulduggery Pleasant: The Dying of the Light is young adult and fantasy novel written by Irish author Derek Landy, published in August 2014.It is the ninth and final of the first Skulduggery Pleasant series and follows to Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men.
The book takes place a five years after The Dying of the Light.In addition to continuing the story of the now 24-year-old Valkyrie Cain, the novel introduces Omen Darkly, a younger main character (included at Landy's publisher's request to make the series a little closer to a children's series) whose subplot storylines over the following six books satirises the Harry Potter series by J. K ...
Tom Percival is the series' illustrator. The books revolve around the adventures of fledgling detective Valkyrie Cain and her mentor Skulduggery Pleasant, along with other friends and allies. The central story concerns Valkyrie's struggle to stop evil forces threatening the world and her internal struggle to resist the darkness within.
The Supreme Council plots to assassinate sorcerers associated with the Irish Sanctuary, including Fletcher Renn, Valkyrie's ex-boyfriend. When he is kidnapped and Valkyrie goes to rescue him, she is captured and tortured by the Brides of Blood Tears. Valkyrie unwillingly transforms into Darquesse and uses her necromancy powers to kill all the ...
Valkyrie and her friends then use the skull to rescue Skulduggery from the realm he was trapped in. While investigating the Revengers' Club, Valkyrie and Skulduggery are shown a vision of the future in which a woman called Darquesse destroys the world. At home, Valkyrie's parents tell her that her mother is pregnant.
Skulduggery suspects The Baron is a pawn in someone else's plan, and accuses the Sanctuary's Grand Mage, who expels Skulduggery from the Sanctuary. At a family reunion, Valkyrie is attacked by a vampire working for The Baron, but she escapes. Skulduggery, Valkyrie, and Tanith battle and defeat The Baron and the Grotesquery.
The story follows sorcerer-detectives Valkyrie Cain and Skulduggery Pleasant as they investigate a group of people who have suddenly developed magic powers. The book would not see release in the US and Canada until 2018. [1] HarperCollins Audio also publishes the unabridged CD sets of the books, read by Rupert Degas.
Skulduggery Pleasant: Mortal Coil opened to largely positive reviews by critics.. Bernice Harrison (The Irish Times):The latest instalment in the Skulduggery series is everything Landy's fans have come to expect: tense, funny and – this is the crucial thing about the writer – magical[,] Landy is above all a superb storyteller with an imagination as full of glittering nuggets as King ...