Rating: 4 out of 5

An enjoyable, easy-read recommendation from my hairdresser. A combination of “The magic faraway trip” and “Harry Potter” following a 12 year old girl, Stephanie, as she becomes involved with a world of magic working with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton detective. Well written with good humorous conversational interludes.

Highlighted passages:

“It’s an Echo Stone,” he said. “Very rare. Generally, it’s used by people who are dying. They sleep with the stone close by for three nights, and in doing so they imprint it with their memories and personality. It’s given to loved ones to help comfort them through their grief, or to answer any lingering questions they might have, things like that.”

“There’s no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost; there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for.

Originally posted to my Goodreads account