The Spook's Blood. Joseph Delaney (The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles, #10)
Time is running out for Thomas Ward. His final battle against the Fiend is drawing near, and the Spook's apprentice has never felt more alone in his task. Isolated and afraid, the Fiend is set to send the greatest of his servants against him - Siscoi, a Vampire God more ferocious than anything he...
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Time is running out for Thomas Ward. His final battle against the Fiend is drawing near, and the Spook's apprentice has never felt more alone in his task. Isolated and afraid, the Fiend is set to send the greatest of his servants against him - Siscoi, a Vampire God more ferocious than anything he has yet faced. Tom must risk his life to prevent the evil beast from entering this world, even as he learns that the final destruction of the Fiend may involve a sacrifice more terrible than he can imagine...This is the series that inspired the forthcoming movie "The Seventh Son", starring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes and Julianne Moore.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780370331812 (0370331818)
Publish date: June 1st 2012
Publisher: Bodley Head
Pages no: 275
Edition language: English
Series: The Last Apprentice / Wardstone Chronicles (#10)
The Last Apprentice series is like my go-to audiobook series when I'm not sure what else I want to listen to next but I know the story will be good and the narrator will be good because it's always consistent. It also never has huge cliffhangers so I know I won't feel pressured to listen to the next...
This one hits new levels of gore and features a very spooky setting, even though it doesn't really advance the overarching narrative about the Fiend, it does move the story along and even provides Tom with a little character development
This series is a favorite of mine but I sort of feel that this book really didn't do much to further the story. The events that occurred could easily have filled the first chapters of the next book. I felt like this was just a placeholder or filler. My son liked it better than I and we both are look...
Time is running short for Tom. He doesn't have many months left until he has to deal with the Fiend and defeat him once and for all. But can he do what's been asked of him?But for now, they have to deal with repairs to the house and building the Spook's library again. They find out about a woman wit...