Hell Breaks Loose
My 56th read of the year was Hell Breaks Loose By #DerekLandy, a book set 300 years before the events of the rest of this Skulduggery series.
My 56th read of the year was Hell Breaks Loose By Derek Landy, a book set 300 years before the events of the rest of this Skulduggery series.
You can read my review of the whole Skulduggery series here
A plot summary attempt
General premise of the Skulduggery series: A skeleton detective and his partner Valkyrie Cain save the world multiple times but they are both a little morally grey and the…
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Premius Fyyre's house
After this long drive Bavaria seemed pretty okay to Valkyrie, she really liked the Alps. The glaciers, where she once had fought that yeti, had made an even more beautiful landscape, but this would do, too. These sweet mountain huts everywhere between the green grass were kind of awesome. And even more awesome were the cows standing all over the place. God, what a boring trip this has been. But now they were here. In front of Premius Fyyres‘s house.
„Soo, this is his house?“, Valkyrie asked already out of the car not even stretching. Too glued were her eyes to the house.
„It is“, answered Skulduggery silently walking around the car.
„It‘s just... that‘s not a house.“
„Yes it is.“
„No, Skulduggery, this is not a house. Definitely not. By definition.“
„I don‘t get what you’re trying to say.“
„A house has like... walls... made out of concrete or something.“
„Not all houses.“
„You’re missing my point. I don‘t say it‘s no house because it‘s a hut or something. It‘s no hut. It‘s not even a shack. That‘s a freaking outhouse, Skulduggery.“
„Indeed, an out-HOUSE. That‘s a house, too.“
„No, no, no“, she paused. „No it‘s not. It‘s just not. That‘s... like someone took four wooden doors and leaned them against each other and then he put some nails into them, so that only one door can be opened. And, and after that he, he laid a few planks on top of everything to stop the rain when someone‘s taking a shit. You can‘t call this a house.“
„I think I can.“
„No, you can not, I forbid you.“
„I think before you can forbid that, we need to discuss a little more: it got four walls, a door and a roof; that‘s a house.“
„Three walls and a door.“
„The door is a door and a wall at the same time.“
„That’s also not possible.“
„In a discussion you can‘t just say that everything‘s impossible, that‘s not how a discussion works.“
„It‘s not a house, you lied to me.“ Valkyrie crossed her arms.
„I didn‘t lie to you, technically this is a house. It even got a window.“
„And that‘s not a window, either. This ‚window‘ is just a heart-shaped hole in the door. It‘s much too small for a window.“
Skulduggery opened his mouth again, but Valkyrie didn‘t let him speak. „‚Hey, Vally‘ you said, ‚wanna go on a cool adventure? We are going to capture Premius Fyyre.‘ Hear that? Fire. You said fire. ‚He has got a house in the Alps in Germany.‘ You lied to me and the whole boring trip I was looking forward to invading a burning lava-fortress made out of flames. And now I just get an outhouse!“
Skulduggery tilted his head. After two seconds he said: „But look at this adorable heart-shaped window!“
„No, I‘m not listening to you, you are stupid.“
Skulduggery waited two seconds. „So here‘s the plan: The door is sealed and even more important: we have imagination. So we‘re gonna jump through the window after the house completed the first looping.“
As the last word ran out of his mouth the outhouse started to move and a rail system started to rise.
Valkyrie‘s confused face was also decorated with an half open mouth.
„Why didn‘t you just tell me we are going to break into a roller-coaster-outhouse?“
„I didn‘t want to spoil the surprise. And looking forward to a burning castle is even cooler than an roller-coaster-outhouse.“
„So you did lie to me?“
„It‘s already in the looping, get ready to jump.“
Valkyrie had no idea how they would fit through the window, but she didn‘t care. She couldn‘t help but smile because she knew Skulduggery was smiling, too.
FanFiction story by my little brother Manu Körni
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WHAT TF JUST HAPPENED. CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE TALK TO ME ABOUT THIS WHOLE THING. (While I’m relieved that Landy is answering all the unanswered questions from the first series, BUT DAFUQ!!!)
Can we also talk about Val’s vision where she Alice is a sorcerer and is going to fight the FINAL BATTLE between the Child of the Ancients and the Child of the Faceless Ones. UM...
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„Aren’t you going to show me what you‘ve been practicing? You’ve been dying to show off from the moment I knocked on this window.“ Stephanie looked at him and arched an eyebrow, but he was right and he knew it. [...] She clicked her fingers, summoning a small flame into the palm of her hand. She watched it flicker and dance, then looked up at Skulduggery and grinned. „Magic,“ he said. #tattoo #somuchloveforthesebooks #evolvink #quote #skulduggerypleasant #magic #dereklandy #morristown #nj #newjersey #skulduggery #scepteroftheancients #book (hier: Evolvink Studios)
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First Appearance ... (confirmed or misreported ) ***SPOILER*** this post is not meant to spoil plot points or significant reveals. This is to affirm reported first appearances, cameos, deaths, origins and the like that may designate a book as a #keycomic #comicbookkey As fans pine for the @disneyplus offerings centered around some of our favorite Marvel characters which includes the hotly anticipated #falconandwintersoldier - #dereklandy creates a new foil in this inaugural team-up issue. With a great splash and introduction page we meet this new villain, “The Natural”. This issue also offers a great fight between our heroes and The Natural before the decent final cliff-hanger page. This is definitely a 1st Appearance. https://www.instagram.com/p/B9GNn6mBzmo/?igshid=sdlllyw9i5h2
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