Review: #236
Title: Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire
Series: Skulduggery Pleasant - 2nd book
Author: Derek Landy
Read Before: no
My Comments: A book that was immediately better than the first book. The story was more absorbing this time around, and not surprisingly, still surrounded with the Faceless Ones. However, it’s still not ‘up there’ with the best of the best, it just seems to be missing something. It tries to be witty with many smart alec one liners, yet… they aren’t terribly funny. Those one liners seemed overdone, and something you have seen before, granted, some worked (really well in fact), but the fact is, most failed. The action was written well here, and the pacing was great. There is a lot of foreshadowing and stuff happening behind the scenes (probably setting up for the next book). Some events felt a bit unnecessary, and there were plenty of elements that were supposed to be neat and unexpected, but, once again, like many other parts, it was done before and was nothing new. There’s some really interesting mythos here though, and it makes me want to find out more about them. I was thinking of keeping the rating as a 6/10, but it was just so much better than the first book that I had to boost it up. However, I wouldn’t say it was a great book, just a good one.
Rating: 6.5/10