SPOILERSSkulduggery Pleasant might be the single most creative series I have ever read. In each book, Landy manages to take the concept of a walking, talking, wise-cracking, skeleton detective and his teenage partner and stretch it on for seven books so far without making it boring. Each adventure, I feel like I have read something genuine and something more incredible than last time. Landy has slowly gone from good-guy fights bad-guy to the two good-guys who might be bad-guys are fighting corrupted-normal people and a delusional, godlike, pacifist. It's almost as if he's been building up to these phenomenal final books. Everything about them, I absolutely love. The humor- another reviewer referred to it as Landy's trademark humor- the plot, the tone, the writing, and the characters. Oh, god, the characters. The most impressive thing, about this series, is that he's never had the plot overshadow his interesting, interesting characters. And he's never had the characters overshadow the plot, though the characters are at the heart of the story. In short, Skulduggery Pleasant is just about my favorite series (yes, even better than Harry Potter) and everything about it enthralls me.Just a side note, you do realize what Derek Landy has been doing with all the two main characters' romantic interests, right? Fletcher, Celaen (hope I spelled that correctly), China (some people do like her and Skulduggery together), etc. In the end, it's all about Valkyrie and Skulduggery. Kind of ironic, considering their *ahem* alter egos.