The Spook's Apprentice

by Joseph Delaney

Welcome back to Readascopic.  To find out more about the blog click here.  This time I am writing about a book from another one of my favourite series.

Weapons used by Spooks

This is the first book of the Spooks series in The Wardstone Chronicles.

Rating

*****

This book is about a young boy called Tom who has to train as a Spook and try and save the country.  This is more difficult than it sounds when he gets deceived into releasing a witch.

Tom's master, John Gregory, has served the country for over sixty years and is nearing the end of his career.  Alice Deane  starts off half evil and half good.  She gets Tom into danger but also helps him to overcome it.  There are many more unique characters such as Grimalkin, a powerful witch assassin, who terrifies the rest of her kin.  

In the Spooks series, Tom has to fight off evil witches, boggarts and other nasty things.  He has to fight with his staff, silver chain and also salt and iron; silver really hurts the enemy, salt burns the enemy and iron bleeds away their strength.

To be a Spook you  have to be a seventh son of a seventh son.  Spooks are trained to fight off evil and defend the country.  They learn to use different weapons but rarely use magic.

This book is set in a land very similar to Britain in the early medieval era.  This makes it a story full of daring actions.  Tom has to recapture a malevolent witch and save his family.  This book is a real page turner.  

I like this book because it is full of adventure and action.  However, I want to warn you that it can be a bit scary at bedtime!  


I hope you enjoy reading this book.
Look out for the next post.

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