Picked Invitation to Die by Helen Smith as my next read; 13% into it and I'm not impressed so far. Also not turned off enough to quit yet (a book has to be truly dismal for me to do that), though, so perhaps this'll be just what I need, although it's currently more tedious than even moderately entertaining.
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
eek! now I am afraid to read that. Luckily I have still 3 books to go before reaching it 
Rick Yancey's Alfred Kropp series is similar type of book, but everyone is usually on the mend by the end of the book. I think you would like them.
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As much as I'm feeling crushed right now, I'm not at all sure I'd prefer everyone to be on the mend by the end of each book, to be honest... this is basically what makes SP so amazing for me, that (especially after the first couple of books) it's really not afraid to go dark, really dark, which isn't perhaps unusual for books in certain genres aimed at older/adult readers, but definitely is for this target group.
Also, I just really adore Skulduggery himself.
I'll give Yancey's series a go some day, probably; I have his 5th Wave and Monstrumologist somewhere in my TBR list to read first though.