skulduggery pleasant!

does that name ring a bell? well, if it doesn't it probably would in time (but dont ask me when.. hehe).

here it goes: skulduggery pleasant is a name of a character in this new kids book aptly titled skulduggery pleasant (duh). i found it yesterday in mph midvalley when i was browsing thru the hot titles section. it had this cool cartoon skeleton on it, and more importantly they were offering a 20% for mph reader circle cardholders, hehe

anyway to cut the story short, its basically a kids' book (with the big-ass fonts and all) with a pretty simple but yet appealing storyline - u take a regular 12 yr old kid and throw her into a magical world of wizards, hollow men, vampires and even talking skeletons (who happens to be one of the good guys).

hmm.. young kid pushed into a fantasy magic world, why does that sound so familiar u ask? well, cos its like harry pothead .. erm, potter! well, with the potter series coming to an end this july, i guess its only normal that others would want to cash in on the void left behind.

anyhoo, i tried describing the storyline to a fren earlier and it just came out sounding all wrong, so for your benefit my dear readers, i'll just reproduce the sypnosis on the website here:

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant. Sure, he may lose his head now and again (in fact, he won his current skull in a poker match), but he is much more than he appears to be—which is good, considering that he is, basically, a skeleton. Skulduggery may be long dead, but he is also a mage who dodged the grave so that he could save the world from an ancient evil. But to defeat it, he'll need the help of a new partner: a not so innocent twelve-year-old girl named Stephanie. That's right, they're the heroes.

Stephanie and Skulduggery are quickly caught up in a battle to stop evil forces from acquiring her recently deceased uncle's most prized possession—the Sceptre of the Ancients. The Ancients were the good guys, an extinct race of uber-magicians from the early days of the earth, and the scepter is their most dangerous weapon, one capable of killing anyone and destroying anything. Back in the day, they used it to banish the bad guys, the evil Faceless Ones. Unfortunately, in the way of bad guys everywhere, the Faceless Ones are staging a comeback and no one besides our two heroes believes in the Faceless Ones, or even that the Sceptre is real.

So Stephanie and Skulduggery set off to find the Sceptre, fend off the minions of the bad guys, beat down vampires and the undead, prove the existence of the Ancients and the Faceless Ones, all while trading snappy, snippy banter worthy of the best screwball comedies.

or alternatively u could check the site out urself here

dude, i'm like just so sure this is gonna be the next big thing! so remember, u saw it here 1st! :D