Publication day! OFFICIAL release day! And the usual rules apply...
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 351 of 351All I can say is CAROL NOOOOOOO!!!!!! But I kinda knew it was gunna happen... not her dying, but the reflection turning evil :D why else would it be quite a central character... although if you're reading these Golden God... GIVE US MORE TANITH WE MISS HER!! I just KNOW the next one is going to be spectacular :)
KOTW was awesome!!
best book ever XD
i can't wait for the next one, wonder what will happen to valkyrie, with her world-breaker side and the "nice" reflection trying to kill her...
i need more of tanith and fletcher!!!
tanith! come back to us!
i can't wait for the next one, even though it does make me a bit sad that after 2 more years SP would be finished :'(
the begining of the end is nye...
firstly. The reflection cannot be darquesse because it has no magic, hence why it killed stephanie's cousin to gain the use of the scepter .although why valkyrie is in there as well as darquesse confused me heaps. There is definitely a long term reason . it is Possible that val is darquesse and the reflection is val, still dosent seem quite right though, still a theory.
Wait a minute. When Cassandra showed her future interpretation, there were two vals. One who saw her parents die and the Darquesse who murdered her parents. That means there has to be a duplicate of Val because she watches Darquesse kill her parents! So which one is the reflection? Which one is Val? Dun Dun Dun
dose anyone notice how much things are hinted at right from book one about skul, in book 3 ghastly's conversation to tanith about his mothers death. When he said she was killed by vile, vile would have killed him but for some- then he is cut off by clare bell coming into the room.
On second note
cheers to all you lucky people who get to see derek on tour, or have already seen him. Lucky lucky people. I couldn't go due to distance. hope it was/is a good tour.
or on a more confusing note vivstar, what if nether one was the reflection......
Use a hoover!!!!!!!
Ewwwww!!
*grins*
gawd I fell out of my chair laughing at Scapegrace. I never thought I could. But I started freaking out when Carol was killed. I was in History xD
I WANNA FLIPPING MURDER VAL'S REFLECTION!!!!!
Now I wonder....will every Sanctuary go to war....if Strom died before he could tell Sult isnt that gonna end up getting a war? He told the American Grand Mage everything i bet. Now I see why I made Zaf crazy. Gawd if theres a war Zaf would join in, then again. *shrugs* rambling.
Ho-Ly Shizz The book was, IS FANEPICALAZING! (A word i made up myselF FANTASTIC EPIC WONDERFUL AND AMAZING) But it is hilarious... Maybe Thrashger and Scapegrace go out!!! xxx Lol!!
there is soo much left to conclude though, i hope the others don't seem so squashed up, it gave me the feeling like it could have quite easily been another hundred pages. still an excellent book though, thats the only real problem is that there was so much there, on the upside there was so much there and the characters grow stronger through the series.
i loved KOTW, whenevr i read any of the SP books, it feels like i'm watching the whole thing happening from a window into the scene,
and i love the way skulduggery and valkyrie are such close friends, i don't agree with the whole 'valduggery' conspiracy, it just doesn't fit in and i absolutely don't want skulduggery and valkyrie to come together in a mushy romance ending.Skulduggery's like a favourite uncle/friend who loves valkyrie(not in love with her)and as the reflection said he's would sacrafice the world to save her...^o^
Derek, you're the best writer ever, i found every thing i'd have liked in a book in SP series!!!
you no.1 fanxx
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH THAT ENDING! AAAAAAAAAAA!
When I finished it I just kept staring at the page going "Oh my God, oh my God oh my God"
Ugh!
I like Valkyrie sooooo much more in this book! She's a much nicer person, and I like the friendship between her and her reflection, and then the ending UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH I want to kill the reflection. Poor Carol. *sobs* I always felt sorry for the twins. Sure, they were a bit pathetic, but awww.... and then Carol... *sobs*
And Tanith! I want that effing Remnant OUT OF HER! Gah! Poor Ghastly!
But did I mention how absolutely EPIC this book was? I think I didn't. Sorry. I don't think I LIKED this book more than the others, but I think it was the best... does that make sense? I think it does. It does to me.
And Scapegrace LOL!!! I was reading it in English class and I had to try explain to my teacher why I suddenly burst out laughing... Awkward!
I have to read it again. XD
All I'm going to say is, I reserved the right to say 'I knew it' when I was thirteen. Now I'm going to say it.
I KNEW IT.
Hi everyone...
doo doo dooooooooooo...
just customizing my new gmail account...
I wonder does carols reflection go against her in d next book? do the reflection and nadir team up? we'll just have 2 see... den den DEN...
sorry im using a lot of ...'s
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222 post!
*giggle*
i stilll am respecting Nye more after the Scapegrace thing
*raises glass* hear hear to Doctor Nye
In around book 5 I actually had a theory about Valkyrie's reflection...I'm glad to see Derek Landy and I seem to be on the same wavelength. I love being right it's a giant ego boost :D
Looking forward to the next book, which hopefully will be out within the year (here's hoping!)
I love the new version of Thrasher, I've always had a crush on him and now the cute, surfer-boy look? Ahh! He is just so amazing! Like my ex!
*Forwns*
Derek, you had to make Thrasher like Tristan didn't you?
All day at school yesterday I was excited. Very excited. You know why? Do you?
Because that was the day my copy of KOTW was coming.
I had tried ordering it from the U.S. by pre-ordering it on their Amazon, but clearly, that was the wrong move to make. They cancelled the order. Just like that. I nearly died when they did, so I had to re-order it from the UK. I was so upset about not getting it I even payed a ton of extra money to get it shipped in two days. It was so worth it.
So after school had ended yesterday, and my bus had dropped me off at my stop, I walked so fast to my house I was practically running. I didn't want to run to my house, you know? A teenage girl wearing all black, with a backpack full of stuff on her back, running down the street? It looks a tad suspicious.
Once I had gotten home after practically tripping many times, I burst in the door. "Is my book here yet?!" I shouted to my brother.
"No," he shouted back.
My shoulders sagged. Well, that was disappointing.
I tried not to panic. After all, it was only about 2:45 and the UPS truck for packages didn't usually come till four. So, with that little fact, I tried to comfort myself.
I wasn't very successful.
I fidgeted around my room, looking for something to distract myself with. I decided to go on the Blog, as per usual.
Then, around three fifteen, I posted one final comment for the day on Derek's blog:
OHMYGOSHKOTWJUSTCAMEGOTTAGOBYE!
So that was awesome. I practically squealed with joy. (Note: I say 'practically squealed' in an effort to sound less like a psychopath, but in reality it was more along the lines of 'shrieking and running through the house, holding the book aloft and exclaiming in almost uncomprehendable words, "IT CAME!" over and over again, then flinging myself across my bedroom to plop down on the bed and get to reading.' I suppose that, now that I've told you, my original effort at sanity was wasted.)
I wouldn't let go of the book. It was so beautiful. And it was all shiny and stuff. And blue. And gold. And it was so BIG. I couldn't get over it. I felt like I was staring at it forever, if that makes the moment more dramatic, but in actuality it was probably about 26 milliseconds before I shrieked and flipped to chapter four and started reading (I had already found a way to read the prologue and chapters one through three).
It wasn't long at all before I started devouring every word. In fact, it started after I read the first word. It was so amazing. I groaned at the fact that Eliza Scorn was there, but in a way that I supposed to. She's awesome, but I kind of hate her. No hard feelings. She just, you know, sent an assassin after Valkyrie.
I found it super suspicious that the reflection and Valkyrie were getting along. I didn't believe it. But after a while, I found myself starting to like the reflection. You're very persuasive, Derek. You managed to change my mind. I also laughed hysterically when Desmond told Valkyrie what he told that guy. That was hilarious.
Every time there was a scene at the Sanctuary, I prepared myself for an attack on Ireland.
It's weird, you know. Reading a book about Valkyrie. It shouldn't be, but it is. After telling people for three years that you're Valkyrie Cain does that to you. So having your head almost eaten by a Yeti (YETIS! YAY!) in a book is unsettling in real life to read about. Some examples of when I felt unsettled (It's a long list):
- Getting stuck in the Goal and having the weird buzzing thing in her arm
- The scene in the coffee shop
- Trying to talk to Tanith and Sanguine
- Vomiting after seeing the remains of a corpse
- Any scenes in the Sanctuary (I was constantly wary of those scenes)
- The whole 'train thing'; falling off and Kray
- Dimension shunting
- DARQUESSE!
- Mevolent
- The freak mask. Just... the freak mask
- YETIS!
- Having Val's mind read
- Taking Darquesse away. That's just not fair. That shouldn't make me feel unhappy, but it did
- Vengeous. Serpine. Vile. Mortals.
- Going into the school
- Serpine's towel
- Scorn's other self
- Anything with Kitana and her friends, really. Oh, and the coat thing. That is irritating.
- Darquesse in other reality
- Heads being ripped off, faces melted, hands burned to stubs...
- The Epilogue. Oh my gosh, the epilogue.
I could've made the list longer, but I decided not to. Because I'm nice. Just kidding. That's not why. I just chose to stop typing that.
On more than a few occasions I found Valkyrie responding to things exactly how I would...
"There's a bench here with things on it, bits of machinery and stuff. And some tools. There's a screwdriver! I could use the screwdriver to prise it open!"
"Yes, or you could use it to unscrew it."
Here lies Valkyrie Cain, who died heroically by falling off a train. At least it rhymed.
"Mr Mein, you're under arrest for, uh..."
"Improper use of inmates."
"There you go. You have the right to remain unconscious."
"...And the house would merely be the entrance - the prison is underground."
Valkyrie sighed. "Everything is underground. I'm sick of things being under ground. Sanctuaries are underground, goals are underground..." She faltered.
"Wow," said Skulduggery. "Two things are underground. That's a pretty exhaustive list."
The scene with the 'human sacrifice'.
"Get me a coffee."
"No."
"Get me one."
There's a bazillion more, but I can't be bothered to type them all out. I think the train bit was my favourite line.
Okay, time for the reasons I started to lose my mind and slip even further into the pit of insanity.
While I was around page 250, I got a text from my mum saying we were going out to look at bridesmaids dresses. It was fine with me. I was going to try on the dress, and just sit there and read my lovely book about death and destructing and skeletons and teenagers.
At about page 340ish she came home for dinner. I refused to leave my room. I was lost in my book. It took a bit of time before I was forced to leave my room to do something silly like eating. Who needs to eat theses days? Why couldn't I just read my book in peace?
Apparently, when I walked out of my room, I looked a bit odd. Well, more than a bit. In the words of my mum, I looked like "a raving lunatic". My hair was a mess, my eyes were probably bulging and I guess my makeup was smeared (I think it may have been a little bit, but it was probably just bags under my eyes). And then, while I was wolfing my food down so I could go back to my room, my mum said, "You know, you aren't taking the book with you to try on dresses."
No. Just... No. I stopped half way through a bite of pizza. "Whaaa?"
"You can't take it, and you can't talk about it there. It'll freak people out."
A piece of me died. "Can I take it in the car?"
She was about to say no, but I'm pretty sure my eye twitched and she realised she had to say yes or I'd lose it completely. "Fine, you can take it in the car."
I wolfed down the last bite of pizza and darted out of the room, heading to my room to keep reading. About 20 minutes later it was time to leave.
I read the book in the car. I've developed the skill not to get carsick from doing it, because it never stops me anyway. We arrived at the dress place. Everyone got out of the car and, moving as slowly as possible, I started to get out. I made eye contact with my mum.
"Leave it in the car."
With my eye twitching and my fingers fidgeting, I slowly set the book down. I got out of the car. "You are so evil."
"I know. I just don't want you reading while we do stuff for my wedding. The book won't go anywhere. I'm sure you'll go tell the blog about your awful mother."
"You're not awful. You're just evil."
We went in, looking at dresses while every last bit of me was twitching or fidgeting or shuddering in someway. There were even a few times when I almost shouted at people who walked by. I kept moaning and squealing and whining in ways that were impossible to understand, and despite the fact that I looked amazing in my dress, I waited so very impatiently to get back to the car.
I practically sprinted when I did. Getting back to my reading, I calmed down a bit. Not very much, though.
I got home, and around nine I forced myself to put the book down to shower. I went back to reading as soon as I possibly could afterwards.
I read for a long time. I was planning to finish it there and then. But it certainly didn't help that the words started to seem hazy every few seconds. It took a while for me to figure out I was falling asleep. I tried to fight it, but it only worked for so long. I passes out.
Around three in the morning - about two hours later - I sat up in bed, and looked at my book. It was open, and I was still holding it. I started reading some more about Vengeous and kept reading, determined to finish that whole freaking book before sunrise.
Around four, I considered going to sleep, but I couldn't. There was no way I was giving up on my traditional read-till-the-book-is-finished-once-you-have-it thing. I was finishing the book and that was that.
Around five I read the last chapter, worried about what could happen next. Then I read the epilogue, and started freaking out. Then I went back to sleep, had some freaky dreams, got up and barely managed to function today.
Now, isn't that exciting?
"What do you think? Do I look amazing?"
"You do indeed."
"Do I look like a ninja?"
"Not a million miles away."
...
"Oh my God," she said. "I look like a freak."
"You look great," Skulduggery assured her.
"Ghastly made me a freak mask."
"It actually looks rather fetching."
"Yeah, if you're a freak."
Haha XD perfect reaction...
Derek, I can't believe you made Skulduggery lie to Valkyrie.
Of COURSE unicorns are real.
The reflection has the septer, she can kill anybody.
Hey Derek, you know what was fun to do after reading KOTW?
My friend Ariana is reading it, so once she told me she was around 200 hundred, I texted her this:
ONE OF THESE PEOPLE IS HERE TO KILL YOU.
And a few minutes later she said:
Oh crap. I'm in the middle of the store.
It was awesome :D
Haha valkyrie v. Cain thats hilarious wish i did it with my friend!!!!😃😃😃
HEY that was NOT COOL Val!!!!!!!!
I'm still shaking from the epilogue!
Life on a blog can get ever so lonely...
HAHAHA! I AM SO EVIL, ARIANA.
You know why? Hmmmmm?
BECAUSE I AM DARQUESSE! MWAHAHAHAHA!
*falters*
Uh... yeah.
By the way, I wasn't just in a store. I was in COSTCO!!!
BUT NOT EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT COSTCO IS, THOUGH.
They should. It is a big scary store I get lost in regularly.
SCAPEGRACE IS A WOMAN!!!!!!!
I know! And Thrasher is all... Wow. XD
Skulduggery and Grace Kelly... Haha.
And Valkyrie is SOOOO jealous of Fletcher's new girlfriend :D
*pushes Ariana off a cliff*
SHUT. UP.
Oh, hey, did I end up telling you who my cousin is going as for the party?
*floats in mid air laughing at your silly atempts to push me off a cliff* Sad really. Myra's so much prettier than Valkyrie. Fletcher could have done so much better, so much faster...
Aaaaaaagh! *punches through Ariana's head like Darquesse does to Kitana*
HA!
*heals and becomes stronger, also like Kitana*
You can't heal yourself if I destroyed your brain! You need Argeddion to do that!
*stabs Argeddion in the brain when he isn't looking*
*drinks Argeddion's soul juice after eating his old lady girlfriend*
I love Criminal Minds.
*laughs at Ariana drinking soul juice*
You have issues.
You know what's amusing? The fact that pretty much no matter what, Amanda will be stuck with one of the two of us and she still hasn't read KOTW.
WE SHALL SPILL SPOILERS!
Oh, and how do you plan to dress up as Wreath?
Shouldn't be to hard. Wig. Cane. Black clothes and black coat. I was dissapointed that Wreath was not in KOTW :/
And Tanith too. I miss Tanith. A lot.
Yeah... He probably would've been killed though :/
Do you even need a wig? You pretty much have black hair anyway.
Well, Tanith was there. Just, you know, EVIL.
But yeah, I miss her two :(
*too, not two
Well, Solomon has short hair doesn't he?
Shorter than yours, but it's still sort of long. Shoulder-lengthy or something.
At least on the weird characters cards I have he is.
Yeah I have the same ones but the character cards that were on the website for a long time he had short hair. Hmmm... Well I'll figure it out later.
Gotta go, bye!
I've got to go now and do some useless tasks like showering and whatnot...
Oh, perfect timing. Bye!
the reflection. HAS NO MAGIC and intends only to TAKE OVER VALKYRIES NORMAL LIFE!
You know why doesn't the reflection just do Valkyries college????
She was complaining in her usual manner about it and now she wants Valkyries life?
Honestly she has mental issues (if she has a brain)
Wait do reflections have brains? Probably reflected brains or something..... But does it work???
Ahh me and my imagination. I probably shouldnt write my thoughts on paper though....or screen
the reflection is crazzaayyy.
Im guessing that when she got tortured she just got mad and like went all wierd.
And it was so sad when Carol died :( I was starting to like her.
Derek would you put that picture up of me? I'm the girl from ireland? in donegal? I had a black t shirl with skulduggery and vaylkrie ??
I finished about 8 hours ago. Read the epilogue maybe 20 times before I believed that I was reading it right.
And the Darquesse/Mevolent showdown? Brilliant. He tore of her bloody HEAD.(Literally bloody)
Also, am I the only one who realized that
A) Christophe Nocturnal was in The Lost Art of World Domination
And
B) there were quite a few references to TEOTW
?
AND Alexander Remit is mentioned in Playing with Fire!
Hey, Derek, was he one of the Teleporters Batu killed?
Kestrel I realised the refernces.
I think thats y derek wrote TEOTW
For those who dont know TEOTW stands for the end of the world
One main reference is at the end when they try to change Argeddions personality
Yes, and when Skul says something along the lines of
"I'm disconnecting the red wires because they're prettier."
Val, Batu and the dead Teleporters was in TFO. I THINK-mind you, I'm not certain-that he was one of Scapegrace's attempted murders.
Speaking of Scapegrace....
BLLLLLAAAARGGGH! I now know how it feels to have your mind blown to itty bitty little pieces, scattered all over, and then put back together again... Because THAT is what you did. You murdered my brain. I'm coming out of a state of shock. Being an Ameri-Minion, I only finished the book about 15 minutes ago... that's right, 15 minutes ago. I was lucky enough to be in Ireland this summer, but left a week before the release date. So, what I did was I went to Village Books, yes, that's right, the nice lady who owns it knows you! Say hi to her for me! (She told me the town you live in. Ha. I can find you, and out of curiosity, have you ever ridden a motorbike? Per chance, mid-August of this year?) But enough on that, I just finished the book. Took me about 3 days, each day about 2 hours to read... shame, what a shame, could've finished it in one sitting too!
My friends at school told me that I was pathetic for walking around at lunch time (we can eat out) reading a book while munching a sandwich. They told me I was pitied. I told them that THEY were pathetic, that I pitied THEM! Oh, we had the first three books for Skulduggery recommended at my school, but they were described in such a dreadful way, the woman who wrote the description has never even read them! Imagine! I want to punch her Val-Style.
Every time I read another chapter, page, paragraph, sentence, WORD... My mind was being tormented, my brain was reeling. Oh, and I've figured out how to save Tanith by the way, playing by the rules, too! And I have a short story for you, but that's for another day. As I read, I felt like screaming, yelling, crying, definitely a cold blooded thriller. There is no other way to describe it. The cover is marvelous, by the way, put in a word for Mr Percival for me.
I ramble like this when I'm in a state of shock.
The parallel dimensions blew me away, I still can't wrap my mind around it. I can't wrap my mind around the other characters, the fighting, the danger of magic that Val, for once, couldn't control at all, whether it be her or Miss Darqy. And when the reflection said that she was "fixed" I couldn't believe you, skipping a whole year of Alice, Skul-Man, oh god. I wanted to tear something to shreds, preferably not the book. Or you, like Kitana and Doran did. But as my mind reeled, I understood that you were playing a Jedi-Mind-Trick on me, that it couldn't at all be true. There was SOMETHING behind this. And there was...
WHY CAROL?! I ACTUALLY LIKED HER!!
Or are you planning on having a battle of the reflections? And now I am so blown away by the reflections, I wish that I could make one myself. Then kill it, just so that I could get my anger out on Flecky (my nickname for the Val-reflection).
And then there was the four infected, the three that were murderous, the two that killed, and the one that was innocent. Elsie had better make a comeback. I also hate Kitana, not for killing people, not for being a beeeep, and not for hurting Skulduggery. But for taking Val's jacket, and when that happened and Val didn't get her jacket back within the next chapter of Val-ness, I went around screaming my head off about the jacket. At two am. I woke the neighbours. Can you kill Kitana for me? Just a fan-fic wouldn't NEARLY be good enough!
Will we ever see that dimension again? And poor dimension-2-Walden, he was so innocent. I don't think that I can take this anymore, I have things to do, and my mind is dying... Derek, Golden God, Master Landy, I beg of you to turn my mind back to what it was before, because now, I don't think that I can read the older books the same way ever again. Each book got more amazing, each book with new changes. Each time I read I thought that things would never be the same. But now we have reached a whole new level of not-ever-going-to-the-same-again-ness.
By the way, Tanith has to come back or my cousin might die. He's in love with her, and probably more so than Ghastly will ever be.
And now I leave. In tears. Waiting.
Here we are now we can discuss this xD
After that chapter with Carol I actually LIKED her!!!
I know!!! And then she gets killed im like, oh my god. Really?!?! I started sobbing
I couln't believe it!!!!!
WHY, DEREK, WHY!?!?!?!? WHY MUST YOU BE SO BRILLIANTLY CRUEL?!?!?!?
I think he wanted to mess with our emotions
He does tend to do that a lot. And he expects us to wait a YEAR?
~SUCCESS~
KES!!!
~SUCCESS~ with what?
ANA!
I know!!! An entire year?!?!?!?
Why are you guys talking about Carol? that's not important. The important thing is that BERYL is a TREKKIE!
~SUCCESS~ with messing with our emotions!
Oh, and who is now a supporter of ScapegracexThrasher?
I know! I almost died of laughter when Carol told Valkyrie that!!! XD
I totally am!! It'd work perfectly
I think its bern confirmed 8 is a war! I OIVE WAR :D
Nye rocks for that!
Yes. Best.Ship. EVER!
I don't think anyone can disagree with it.
I don't want it to be war. Skulduggery CHANGES(not into Vile, just his personality) when there is war.
Ana, yep. Nye is now officially better than Kenspeckle. Or maybe not.
If Zaf could she'd fight. She would she might be a Necromancer but...brb food
Ariana, did you get the picture yet?
see ya.
Although I suppose if it WAS war, he could use a lot of our OCs and just kill us off.
My favourite part is when Erskine keeps bringing up Caelan XD
mmmhmmm
"What is that? I have to go? Important business?"
Ghastly sighed. "There's no one here"
"What's that? I'm needed somewhere? There's important business for me to do?
And Lenka's reaction to Fletcher was priceless.
GAH, KESTREL QUOTED THE SAME PART :/
Yes I did.
I lent it to my best friend, and I am seriously regretting it right now. I don't get it back til Monday. If there is one TINY little crack in the spine or scratch on the cover, or bent page, or marks, she will regret being born.
Val, all I see is a face!
Also, I made an epic Skulduggeryesque hat today.
But it's a CREEPY face.
I don't like looking in the mirror.
I have to go, bye.
Bye Kestrel!
I have to go too... Me and Amanda are trying to make a movie. I play a dead person.
Bye guys! I have to go too. Watching the baby :)
TANITH! COME BACK!
*Starts singing a a paraody to 'Baby come back' but 'Tanith come back'*
I always imagine Ghastly singing this!
Spending all my nights, all my money, goin' out on the town
Doin' anything just to get you off of my mind
But when the morning comes
I'm right back where I started again
And tryin' to forget you is just a waste of time
Tanith come back; any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Tanith come back; you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
All day long, wearing a mask of false bravado
Tryin' to keep up a smile that hides the tears
But as the sun goes down, I get that empty feeling again
How I wish to God that you were here
Tanith come back; any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Tanith come back; you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
Now that I put it all together
Give me the chance to make you see
Have you used up all the love in your heart?
Nothing left for me? Is there nothing left for me?
Tanith come back; any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Tanith come back; (listen, baby) you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
I was wrong, and I just can't live...
Tanith come back; any kind of fool could see
There was something in everything about you
Tanith come back; you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you
Death, do you approve of ScapegracexTheasher?
Yeah! They look like the perfect couple!
*Laughs*
*laughs as well*
ONE OF THESE PEOPLE IS HERE TO KILL YOU.
*Looks around and sees an old woman ratting through her bag*
Could it be her?
I wonder what 'Margaret's' real name is...
And Fletcher has a GIRLFRIEND! Curse you Master Derek. Just....curse you.
Yeah! Myra? Maya? Something starting with an 'm'? McDonalds? Yeah, whatever! I make muffins in the middle of the night too!
I think it was Myra.
Is it odd that the pinky reason I didn't like Kitana was because she stole Vals jacket?
*only
No, tis not odd! The same applies to me too!
TO THOSE OF US WHO WANT TANITH BACK:
When our mighty master was at the book signing in Melbourne, he said in his funny Irish accent "Becuase my publishers wouldnt let me kill Tanith, I made a compromise with them. I get to torture Tanith when ever I can. So with the scythe through the back, the Heliquin poison, the remnant Kenspecle's 'plaything' and the remnant."
OH MIGHTY MASTER! IF YOU ARE READING THIS, I HAVE A WAY FOR YOU TO TORTURE OUR WONDERFUL TANITH MORE! BY MAKING HER HALF REMNANT AND HALF TANITH! I'VE BEEN CONSIDERING THE POSSIBLITIES FOR A WHILE AND YOU COULD MAKE IT WORK BECAUSE WHEN VAL FIRST BECAME DARQUESS AND TANITH WAS FIGHTING THE REMNANT, THERE WAS THAT TIME WHERE IT ALMOST GOT PULLED OUT OF HER! YOU COULD MAKE TANITH AND THE REMNANT BE TOGETHER BUT NOT REALLY ATTACHED!
*Bows down*
Thank you my master!
@Death- Definitely torture. Epic, epic torture!
And how do we go about starting this, eh?
Well... we take a risk and wake up Mealncholia, but we can only have her awake for a few minutes. Either that or Skul-Man is Vile again. Then, the Death Bubble is released, "killing" Tanith. That should also kill her remnant, because a remnant dies when it's host body dies. BUT! If it needs a certain amount of time to die and Tanith stays dead a SECOND less than necessary, then voila, Tanith and the attack of the half-dead remnant.
If you catch my drift XD
I still can't get over the fact that Beryl's a Trekkie...
HOLY CRAP! THOMAS AND DORAN PURCELL!!!! I'M RELATED TO PSYCHOPATHS. -_-
AGAIN.
Okay... Alternate dimension. Alright, that's brilliant xD BUT OMG. THE REFLECTION. THAT HOOR -_-
*goes off to grumble in a corner*
"Other stories tell how I eat innocent newborns, how I'm ten feet tall, how I breathe fire and have great dragon wings. None of these are wholly accurate. I don't have dragon wings, I can't breathe fire, I'm only eight feet tall and I've never eaten a newborn that didn't have it coming. My name is Mevolent. What's yours?
I LOVE MEVOLENT <3
I finally got the book less than a week ago, and I finished it so fasttt. D:
I wanted to savor it...
I absolutely loved the plot in this Derek. And I thoroughly enjoyed so many of the humor bits c:
Like Val getting rejected on the train xD
I couldn't help but burst out laughing.
The epilogue caught me off guard though. I ended up crawling along my floor with the book, still reading it, screaming through my house "NO NO NO NO THIS IS NOT HAPPENING OH MY GOD NO NO NO!!"
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I feel sorry for the reflection, she's always been one of my favourite characters. It would be nice in the next book to see her character finally build :D
Also I think she'll make reflections of almost everyone Valkyrie loves (by pretending to be her) and kinda drain their magic to use for the Sceptre without actually killing them. That would be cool.
I just finished the book for the second time and I noticed the at the very end they were calling the reflection Stephanie. AHHHH!!
I nearly cried at the end of that chapter when Vile walks in on Val and Mevolent....
So sad. :*(
ok, I know i'm going to get massive hate 4 this but............
I think derek is going to have val turn in2 darquesse and kill her parents, and then kill skulduggery!
Then she decides to leave her whole mortal life behind and let the reflection ( who is good again but is now a proper human , aging independantly, healing etc.) take over and look after Alice. Then Val goes of and is a detective, saving the world like Skulduggery would have wanted!
I know this is evil, but it is also awesome end to all this!
Great for development of the plot, the characters and introducing even more kick ass ideas. I like how the story is darker, slightly more adult yet the good humour and childish fun never really goes away. Brilliant cliff hanger too.
Potential explanation for Darquesse vision that we saw in book 4/5? Reflection was successful and Valkyrie turned into Darquesse. The killing of their parents was punishment for the reflection (who we thought was Valkyrie) and the reflection was talking to Darquesse when she said i don't want to see this again as she was being controlled by Darquesse. So if reflection was successful, then the skulduggery we see in vision is not the skulduggery we all know and love. 'Big Man' in other dimension is very powerful and resourceful. Quasi- Isthmus Anchor (reflection's fingers), anyone?
Hey, you know how there is supposed to be lots of war in next book? What if the war is against the two dimensions because Mel (haha) wants to control this place as well, and Vile comes just as Skul dies? A handy replacement and moral ambiguity to discuss. Is Vile becomes Skulduggery, would he be like our Skul? Would we even know? Would we even care after the heartbreak of losing him? Would he fight alongside the good guys like the old days when he changes into Skul? And how would this change happen anyway?
KOTW release day!
That was a long time ago.
Less than a year.
Though it doesn't seem it.
*sings*
Forever young.
I wanna be forever young.
Boop.
*shuts eyes, screaming and avoiding spoilers*
I WILL DESTROY YOUR ATTEMPTS AT ESTABLISHING ORDER.
*roars*
#ChaseForBook9
MINE
MINE
MINE
MINE
MINE
MINE
MINE
MINE
MINE
(Jai, you are amazing! I'm so happy to be around you! :3)
I get the feeling this was skipped because of sPoilers..
Tbh, we need the space.
We can do what we did with the TMS spoiler post and fill it up until the next page so it's easier for people to avoid spoilers, but we will need to use this post eventually. It is a book that was published almost 2 and a half years ago.
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