Stephanie was only twelve years old when her favorite uncle died and left her virtually all of his estate. Her uncle was a very successful author of novels of magic and monsters.
Her first night in the her uncle's house, a man broke in and tried to kill her, demanding a key from her, a key she knew nothing about. But Skulduggery Pleasant arrived just in time to send the intruder packing.
Skulduggery Pleasant isn't a normal guy. He is a skeleton and a mage and a detective. And right now he is on the hunt for a magical item, the Scepter of the Ancients. He believes that Stephanie's dead uncle knew something about it and maybe even had the scepter in his possession.
Some time in the past a war had occurred between the mages and a truce had been entered upon. But now someone is trying to acquire the Scepter and break the truce and bring about the end of the world as we know it.
All this magic and mages and wars are news to Stephanie and she is smitten. And thanks to the death of her uncle, she is now totally involved in a new world of magic and monsters and deadly threats and she loves it.
This was an OK read, a bit too juvenile for my taste, though. I was really hoping for something a lot more whimsical. But instead it was just another story of bad magicians vs good magicians. Teen and older kids would probably like it and enjoy the rather obvious jokes about Skulduggery being a skeleton.
Rated Reads review: http://ratedreads.com/scepter-of-the-ancients-skulduggery-pleasant-book-1/.
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