The Spook's Nightmare: Book 7

Excellent comme d'habitude

good

I am in my late 40s and started reading the spooks books when my young nephew loaned my the first one,The Spooks Apprentice. I thoroughly enjoyed it and have since bought all of them including Witches. This was like all the others really entertaining to read. Mr Delaney manages to keep the reader gripped with the story right to the end of the book. This is a little darker than the previous one,The Spooks Sacrifice, as seems to be the case with each book.I have pre-ordered The Spooks Destiny and am looking forward to finding out where this journey will lead Tom Ward next.If this is the first Spooks book you have read I highly recommend getting the others and reading them in sequence you learn as Tom learns about all the dark creatures etc and get the enjoyment without any danger.Like the reveiws say 'for those who have outgrown Harry Potter' I wholly agree.

Great book

The Last Apprentice books start out harmlessly enough. There is plenty of action, and the characters are wonderfully drawn. However, as the books progress, so intensity. Each book just gets a bit darker. A little more creepy. It's like Delaney knows his audience gets another year older with each new release, and doesn't want to loose them. In the latest installment (for me), Rise of the Huntress, the Spook, Tom Ward, and Alice are on their way back from Greece. They get home to find the house in Chipenden has been destroyed. The Spooks books are burned (except one), the Bogart watching the place is gone, and the witches entombed in the garden have managed to escape! Fleeing for somewhere safe while a war wages on, the band finds themselves immigrants on a distant land. They are not welcome from the moment they get off the boat -- and the locals have no problem expressing their distaste. Lord Barrule enjoys (aside from gambling), the torture and murder of witches. Bony Lizzie is also around. She has grand plans of taking over. Her power has continued to grow. She knows nothing can stop her now. What she wants to do first is exact revenge on the Spook. Then on the Tom ward. (For Alice -- her daughter -- she envisions a bigger, greater destiny of uniting the witch clans). On a foreign land, facing an evil Lord, and one of the most dangerous witches, where the townsfolk despise you, and there is no one to trust, no one to turn to -- the Spook, Ward, and Alice need to find sanctuary -- fast, or risk being locked away in a dungeon, tortured, or killed. Like each of the previous books I have read and reviewed in this series, I am a fan. Joseph Delaney has a powerful series. I am sad to think I am past the halfway mark (this being book 7 of 13). However, I do have book 8 ready to go. And for now, at least, that makes me happy. Phillip Tomasso Author of Damn the Dead, and Young Blood: The Nightbreed Saga