Waterstones The Spook's Revenge
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Description: 'He's the seventh son of a seventh son. His name is Thomas J. Ward and he's my gift to the County. When he's old enough we'll send you word. Train him well. He'll be the best apprentice you've ever had and he'll also be your last.' These were the words of Tom's Mam to the county Spook some years ago. As Tom, the Spook and their allies prepare to battle with the Fiend on a huge scale, to finally enact their revenge, it now remains to be seen whether Mam's declaration will come true. Waterstones The Spook's Revenge - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9781849414708
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ISBN: 9781849414708
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Author: Mr. John Booth
Rating: 5
Review: The thirteenth book of the Spook's series finally concludes the first story. The author says he planned a trilogy, but it took on a life of its own. The trouble with endings of long stories is they rarely live up to the hype. This is a good book, it is one scene short of being a great book, but I understand why that scene was omitted, even if I don't agree with the reasoning. I would bet money it was in the first draft before the editor persuaded the author to remove it. The Wardstone Chronicles started by presenting us with an uncompromisingly description of good and evil, if you used magic )always Dark you would eventually become a servant of the Dark and it was a Spook's job to take those so afflicted and imprison or kill them (sometimes both, though not in that order.) But Delaney subverted that view almost from the start by showing that not all those using dark powers used them for evil. Everybody is compromised as the story progresses, even the Spook turns out to have fallen in love with one of those he fights against. Delaney created a relationship between a practitioner of the dark arts (Alice) and Tom (our hero). This relationship soon blossoms into the beginnings of a love story. The age range the book is targeted at preventing it from going any further. What has bound me to these stories is that relationship between Tom and Alice, its strengths and its weaknesses, as our characters discover that for the world to escape the rule of evil, Tom must sacrifice Alice and she must be willing to die. Tom is hopelessly fallible (and to be honest, not all that bright) while Alice has a resolve that burns so intensely it sometimes hurts to see it on the page. I'm not going to say what happens in this book, but that story is not resolved unless you carefully put together all the clues the author left scattered around. For those of you who have read the book, look carefully at the prophesy made by Mab about what would happen to Tom and then Alice's last words to him. Buy this book, it's well worth reading.
Author: John Grimbaldeston
Rating: 3
Review: The last few books in the series have begun to feel a little "same-y:" characters suddenly change and become either surprisingly good, or surprisingly evil, depending on the situations either Tom or Alice are in - so consistency is sacrificed to the needs of the plot. This last in the series gives the greatest character about-turn of all, which doesn't sit easily with the consistency of the rest of the series, even though those characters in the know in the novels had warned us. And for all the enormity of the events, there is a lack of drama and involvement as one crisis piles on top of another with as little involvement as a youngster telling a story - "and then ... and then ... and then." It is as though we are moving from one level to another in a computer game. Having said that, the world the author creates is imaginatively peopled - or "creatured," the final battle hangs nicely in the balance, and while not all the futures for the major characters are settled, it is a relatively satisfying rounding off for most. The series was rather too long so the freshness of the first book fades, the impression was given frequently that the author hadn't planned the stories fully before he started writing, hence the character inconsistencies are too frequently for the benefit of the plot rather than to suggest any 'message' about there being good AND evil in all of us, but the world Mr Delaney creates is a heck of an achievement, and as an inhabitant of the Fylde I can't help but be impressed with what he conjures out of the local mythology.
