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A Soul Full of Shadows

core novel 2026 Skulduggery Pleasant

Record

First published2026
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.04 (623 ratings, collected 2026-08-26)
First-edition ISBN9780008585969
Internal chronology18

Synopsis

A Soul Full of Shadows concludes the trilogy begun in A Mind Full of Murder, with the wider magical society on the verge of being torn in two. An island stronghold of sorcerers, a terrorist organization, and Valkyrie Cain's own sister each set catastrophic events in motion, leaving Valkyrie's odds of coming through the crisis looking slight. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie must navigate threats converging from multiple directions at once, drawing on allies built up across the earlier books of the trilogy as the conflicts started in A Mind Full of Murder and A Heart Full of Hatred reach their culmination. The eighteenth book follows the characters as they try to hold the fracturing magical world together.

Where it sits

Notes

  • From the series record (The Skulduggery Pleasant main sequence): The main numbered sequence concluded with A Soul Full of Shadows (2026); several companion novellas and short-story collections in the same setting exist but are not catalogued in this admission.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.

  • Reading order, within the series The Skulduggery Pleasant main sequence: position 18 of 18: previous A Heart Full of Hatred (2025)

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