So, the new teen kid protagonist is nowhere near as interesting as Valkyrie, who is now 25, but teen protagonists are apparently mandatory in YA books. Fortunately, in this volume, most of the focus is on Valkyrie. And if you have no idea who I'm talking about, don't start here - go back to the beginning when Valkyrie discovered magic, aged 12, in the very first book.
Same problem as the previous volume: Omen just isn't that interesting. It's a lot more fun to be around Valkyrie and Skulduggery - but apparently one MUST have a teenage protagonist involved.
And so Landy's love-letter to the TV show Supernatural comes to an end - rather abruptly! Some of it is predictable, most of it not. It's an amusing read.
This series is a little edgy with its language, which is quite funny really because it's tame by comparison to the swearing you'd hear in any 6th Form common room across the land: Nobody swears more than a bunch of teenagers without adult supervision.
The Supernatural references are getting more blatent and I've just noticed that Scooby Doo and gang are in this one, too. And the Narrow Man is a slender step away from a certain modern myth. The third volume will presumably feature Mulder and Scully... Yep names, descriptions and character traits are all modified but the "inspiration" is obvious.
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