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Loading... The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch (2004)by Joseph Delaney
Awful and gory and creepy (  ) TeamDewey | Apr 30, 2013 |  I liked this book- so very different from other books I have read. 12-yr.-old Thomas Ward becomes the Spook's apprentice. Thomas finds that a little learning can be dangerous. The Spook is in and out of the story. He gives Thomas instructions which he does not always follow. When Thomas encounters the witch, Mother Malkin, he's in big trouble. This book is scary, well-written, and unpredictable. (  ) TeamDewey | Apr 30, 2013 | It was alright for a kiddo book. I had a hard time getting through it because there just wasn't that much to get excited about. In this first book of the series you really don't get to fall in love with the characters and I think that it's an insult to that reading level because I have read books in the past for those kids with a much bigger depth into the human experience. (  ) StefanieGeeks | Apr 5, 2013 | Really enjoyed this one and looking forward to others in the series. May suffer a bit in my mind from comparisons to the Ranger's Apprentice, only bc I read that one first, but TOm Ward is a welcome addition to my book world. Am interested to see how his relationship develops with the Spook as well as Alice. Also think there is a lot more to be hear from his Mam... ( ) ScoutJ | Mar 31, 2013 | Tom is the seventh son of a seventh son, and is taken on as apprentice to the County Spook whose job it is to keep the residents safe from bad magic. Tom makes a couple of dangerous errors on his first encounter with a witch which puts his own family in danger. ( ) pmlyayakkers | Dec 12, 2012 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0060766204, Paperback)"I was going to learn how to protect farms and villages from things that go bump in the night. Dealing with ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties would be all in a day's work. That's what the Spook did, and I was going to be his apprentice." Twelve-year-old Thomas Ward, as the seventh son of a seventh son, has no inheritance and is bored with farm work, and even though his new job will mean the superstitious villagers will forever shun him, he is eager to go off to adventure with the tall, hooded man he calls the Spook. His mother, a magical person herself, approves, and the Spook's teaching is strict but kind. But when Tom has only learned enough to be able to control their house-boggart, he is tricked by Alice, the young daughter of a witch family, into inadvertently releasing and then killing Mother Malkin, a witch the Spook has imprisoned in a pit. This is no polite wicca-type witch, but a snuffling, slime-trailing, cannibalistic creature reminiscent of Tolkien's nasgils. The story of Tom's escape from the reincarnated witch's hideous revenge is full of horrible details, as Alice helps, and then once again betrays him. This well-crafted novel marks an auspicious start for an exciting and fast series for young teens. (Ages 10-14) --Patty Campbell(retrieved from Amazon Wed, 02 Jan 2013 17:40:19 -0500) Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties." |
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