A review by awanderingreader
The Spook's Revenge by Joseph Delaney

3.0

In full disclosure, this review is of the audiobook. I listened to the whole series on audiobook as it is how I manage to make myself clean the house. The first 11 books are read by the same amazing narrator. Books 12 and 13 both have different readers. It is hard to separate how much of my disappointment in this book was the poor writing and how much was the poor narration, but this book was a let-down in both regards. It almost seemed like it was written by a different author as well. The story did not flow the same as the rest of the series. There was too little suspense and too much bodily functions. As for the narration, I cannot think of anything nice to say. As the book is set in England, the older English narrator of the first 11 books read this as it should be. The narrator for this one was young and American. For all characters except Tom, he used a bad Scottish accent. All female characters were portrayed in the same bad Scottish accent, but with a creepy falsetto. However the most annoying was his mispronunciation of the word boggart. As the boggart played a really large role in book #13, this completely ruined it. He kept saying "Bogart" (as in Humphrey). I couldn't help but picture the creature with a fedora and a cigar. It really ruined the mental imagery.
In short, if you have read the rest of the series, you will read this one. Just make sure you read rather than listen.