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Skulduggery and Necromancy galore!

A few more book suggestions to round out Teen Read Week!

Looking for some creepy tales with sarcastic main characters? They're my favorite kinds too! I like a few scares, but if someone is making funny quips, I like it all the more! 


 When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, an undead sorcerer and detective, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.

Not only is Skulduggery hilariously sarcastic, Stephanie is also amazingly snarky- which helped me not to get too freaked out. This book is nonstop danger and adventure and I can't wait to read the rest of the series (there are 7 books so far)!


Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.

Sam (short for Samhain) is a hilarious slacker and his interactions with his friends was so authentic feeling, even when crazy stuff started happening (like a talking decapitated head?!) that this book was so fun to read despite the creepy and yuck factors. Also, all of the chapters are lyrics from songs. AND! I was so excited yesterday when I read a review for the sequel! I cannot wait!

DFTBA,
Sti
 

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