Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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Yup. So many revelations and so much stuff still to happen! i have been on pins and needles about
the reflection
for several books, I just know something is building there.
And put in a pre-order for End of the World though I feel VERY silly spending so much more for shipping than for the book.
I definitely want End of the World.
So, about Death Bringer: OMGWTF
Fergus!!!!!
I seriously about fell out of my chair at that. Easily my favorite part of the entire book.
I remain bemused by the whole
Skulduggery is Lord Vile
thing. If I don't look at it too hard, it works.
However, I kind of love that the reason
Skulduggery came back from the dead
was because
Tenebrae worked necromancer mojo on Serpine's Red Right Hand
dealie.
And I think that Big Shit is definitely in the works with
the reflection.
I even think that something might happen to make
the reflection become Darquesse.
Because if
the reflection is a reflection of Valkyrie, then why wouldn't it be a reflection of ALL of
Valkyrie?
I find the
reporter who's planning to expose The World Of Magic
just annoying. And I will laugh if he's just kind of disposed of within the first few chapters of the next book. I can see that happening, though. Build up the suspense, and then summarily dispose of the threat.
I almost feel sorry for
China.
ALMOST.
Finally, I cannot stop laughing at
Scapegrace being just a head now.
That will never stop being funny to me.
Damn you both. I just bought Death Bringer from a seller on Amazon. I was being SO GOOD, but I just can’t wait any longer!
I agree with you on all that. I have to wonder if
Desmond is more than he seems. I mean, he threw a guy through a window. Can he really be as helpless and harmless as he seems?
I kinda like the reporter, although I don't want
the mortal world finding out about magic
to be a big thing.
And I just realized moments ago that
Skulduggery is to Ghastly as China is to Skulduggery.
That's gonna be bad when/if it comes out. I am sincerely bummed that
China's library was destroyed,
though I am more ambivalent about her actual self.
Eta: sorry, Pix!
Oh my god, you're right about
Skulduggery and Ghastly.
Although I understand the distinction between
Skulduggery and Lord Vile
(it seems to be like
Angel and Angelus),
but I don't think that
Ghastly
will see it that way. At least, not right away, if at all.
I've been re-reading the books in backwards order recently (Death Bringer, Mortal Coil, Dark Days, The Faceless Ones), and I noticed that in Dark Days, there was the scene where Davinia Marr had a meeting in a deli with
a man described as "the man with golden eyes."
And then in Mortal Coil,
the man with the golden eyes
was in the scene in Roarhaven where
the Torment buries Tesseract alive.
And now I can't remember if the same character was in Death Bringer. But I'm assuming we're going to see the character again, and I'm wondering who it's going to turn out to be. Mevolent? Because it sure seems like the books are working towards the return of Mevolent.
What also struck me in the past few books is that Skulduggery has mentioned his family -- as in, parents and brother, not his wife and child, who we know died -- and so I'm wondering if any of his family is going to be introduced in the upcoming books. I can't imagine they'd be mentioned in more than one book and then just dropped.
And his
family crest, which he declined to discuss,
I think that'll turn out to be significant somehow.
I was watching for mentions of a
man with golden eyes
in Death Bringer and didn't see any, although someone, maybe a couple of someones, had their
eyes described as beautiful but no color mentioned. I think the Dead Men we just met?
That and
Eliza Scorn's comment about having friends that Skulduggery thought were his friends
has me worried about
the newest Grand Mage.
Darn you all, the library doesn't have all of them, so I don't want to skip ahead and miss stuff, so I haven't read any but the first. Normally I read whitefont anyway, but I'm resisting now.
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere is available for $2.99 on the Kindle today - [link] No idea for how long.
Yeah, I think Skulduggery's
family crest
has been mentioned in at least 2 books.
Who is the
newest Grand Mage? Erskine Ravel?
I really don't want
him to turn out to be bad.
I'm intrigued by
Dexter Vex.
I don't think his
eye color
was mentioned.
No, I don't either. But I am worried. Because apparently
everyone has secrets! Which probably doesn't need whitefonting but I have been surprised by the extent to which it is true.
I think it was
Dexter Vex who was described as having "the most beautiful eyes" but no color specified,
which I find either highly suspicious or clearly a red herring, depending on my mood.