A review by obsidian_blue
The Last Apprentice: Lure of the Dead (Book 10) by Joseph Delaney

3.0

 

Well well well. I knew certain people were full of it, and this book shows us who they are. At this point all is revealed to Tom and he is left with a terrible choice. He either lets the Fiend bring the dark (and honestly who cares at this point) or he has to kill someone he loves to stop him forever.

This whole book was just the Spook being shown he is not up to the task of being the Spook and things more firmly being handed over to Tom. But also I got to wonder about that prophecy that was being shrieked at us for four solid books that I assume is not going to come true? Who knows. I guess we see in the last three books of the series.

All in all, I didn't feel that Tom is the hero that the County and everyone needs, instead you have Grimalkin and Alice still kicking ass and taking names. It seems to me, the witches (who are part of the dark) have more sense than the men and lamia's running around. I now wonder if we had followed the witches side of things if I would have enjoyed this series more, but I will never know.

We get more insight into Tom's terrible mother, and he is once again left with a terrible decision tree and since Tom never chooses right, I am just going to guess the last book in this series is going to really tick me off. Also sadly, this book dispatches someone we have gotten to know off scene to speak and it just has Tom going, I won't tell what I know because I don't need more people to hate me. But yes, Tom is definitely strong enough to be the Spook.