Take a photo of a barcode or cover
A review by obsidian_blue
The Last Apprentice: Wrath of the Bloodeye (Book 5) by Joseph Delaney
3.0
I thought the fifth book in the series was just okay, there were some really bad plot elements in this one and I think the book fast forwarded a bit to get to the next book in the series (spoiler alert, it was not good) and better time would have been spent setting this up better. We have Tom being sent off to train with a new Spook so he can learn about different types of witches, but also more one on one combat. Also, there's additional details being provided about what makes Tom so different than the Spook's that have come before him. The biggest reason why I gave this three stars though is that I swear that every time Tom is in a bad situation, he makes the worst decision possible. At this point I need to create my own Tom Ward decision making tree and just see if I am right.
"Wrath of the Bloodeye" has Tom sent to go and train with another Spook for 6 months named Bill Arkwright. Tom doesn't want to go and per usual is angry that Alice can't come and holy moly I am sick of hearing about Alice. Probably because everything the Spook has said about her is true and Tom has no common sense at all in my mind. Tom eventually goes and meets Bill Arkwright and per usual can't help snooping and being angry he's not being treated like a snoop. There comes of course a new villain on the scene, a new witch who is the daughter of the Fiend (sorry I still think including the Devil in this series was the dumbest thing ever) who is determined to kill Tom so her father may walk forever because Delaney borrows a bit from the Harry Potter series to have it that if the Fiend kills Tom he won't be able to walk forever, etc. etc.
Tom is just aggravating in this one. Probably because without Alice he's not that interesting of a character. Everyone keeps telling us how important he is, but so far, eh.
I was interested in the character of Bill Arkwright, he had a hard life and I found him to in some ways be a better master to Tom than the Spook is. And frankly, I think I prefer his method of dealing with witches than what the Spook does and continues to do.
The setting of this book in a new place with water witches and other water based demons was a nice change of pace.
There's more secrets at the end of this one to be revealed to Tom by his mother who is apparently coming back from Greece.
"Wrath of the Bloodeye" has Tom sent to go and train with another Spook for 6 months named Bill Arkwright. Tom doesn't want to go and per usual is angry that Alice can't come and holy moly I am sick of hearing about Alice. Probably because everything the Spook has said about her is true and Tom has no common sense at all in my mind. Tom eventually goes and meets Bill Arkwright and per usual can't help snooping and being angry he's not being treated like a snoop. There comes of course a new villain on the scene, a new witch who is the daughter of the Fiend (sorry I still think including the Devil in this series was the dumbest thing ever) who is determined to kill Tom so her father may walk forever because Delaney borrows a bit from the Harry Potter series to have it that if the Fiend kills Tom he won't be able to walk forever, etc. etc.
Tom is just aggravating in this one. Probably because without Alice he's not that interesting of a character. Everyone keeps telling us how important he is, but so far, eh.
I was interested in the character of Bill Arkwright, he had a hard life and I found him to in some ways be a better master to Tom than the Spook is. And frankly, I think I prefer his method of dealing with witches than what the Spook does and continues to do.
The setting of this book in a new place with water witches and other water based demons was a nice change of pace.
There's more secrets at the end of this one to be revealed to Tom by his mother who is apparently coming back from Greece.