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I received this as a birthday present. Quick read and utterly enjoyable, just what I needed after recent non fiction. I think one would call this teen fiction. In some ways it reads younger but then some of the events and themes would certainly affect those too young. Really loved this world and tale, will be looking for more of the series now. Books as gifts always appreciated here!

I really liked this book laced with destiny, necromancy, and witches. I‘ll definitely read on. +176 #Scarathlon2021 #TeamHendrix #screamathon #spookoween #littenlisten #readlikehellathon #trickortreatathon #spooktober #disneyvillianreadathon #vampathon

Well, Tom made me mad. He was told not to do something and he immediately went and did it.😔🤦🏽‍♀️
It was still a great read full of ghosts, ghasts, boggarts, and witches. Tom, being the seventh son of a seventh son, is to become the apprentice of the Spook (kind of like a wizard who‘s a witch and ghost hunter🤷🏽‍♀️). So I‘m obviously going to read the next book in the series even though I‘m mad at Tom. 😆

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So...one of the first things you‘re warned about is: beware of girls with pointy shoes.
So...one of the first things you do is talk to a girl with pointy shoes and make her a promise to help her if she ever needs help. No specifics, just an open ended promise of help. 😔 🤦🏽‍♀️
You were also told don‘t go to that part of the woods in the dark and especially by yourself. So, obviously 🙄 you are lured into that part of the woods at midnight to👇🏽

Finished this a few days ago, I really like the lore and how it focuses on the 7th son, it‘s always usually the 1st born in stories so this was a nice change. I enjoyed the spooky aspects the job of a Spook deals with. I‘m also interested in Mam and how she connects to everything. I will continue with the series.

This was OK. The lore was interesting, but it seemed like everyone's motivations were all over the place. I'm interested enough to see where this goes that I put the next book on hold. I'm hoping it's a different narrator though!
I watched this movie, Seventh Son, and arguably it is a bad movie, but I enjoy bad sword & sorcery type things so maybe I'm biased.

“It made me nervous though, because it was a scary job. I was going to learn how to protect farms and villages from things that go bump in the night. Dealing with ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties would be all in a day‘s work. That‘s what the Spook did, and I was going to be his #apprentice.” #QuotsyOct19 #AllHallowsRead #GiveAScaryBook

This series started off a little slow, then ended up being wonderful👍 But does anyone else get annoyed when they change the cover style half way through a series? 😡

I listened to this audiobook and I really enjoyed this creepy tale. Tom is the seventh son of a seventh son and is sent to apprentice with the Spook. His job is to contain the witches, ghouls beasties and boggarts. I actually held my breath a couple times. A great introduction to scary stories.
#AllHallowsRead

What a fun story! I was hooked right away and spent the next few hours in front of the fire until I was finished. A darkly enjoyable tale of monsters, witches, and other supernatural beings. Perfect for middle schoolers or upper elementary.

A good start to a series about a boy training to hunt all kinds of supernatural creatures and ghosts. This #24in48 marathon is really helping clear my TBR pile from the library @24in48

It was a rainy LitFest but I managed to find some books!

This was a very quick read. An interesting fantasy book involving the old-school bad fictional creatures: witches, boggarts, ghosts and ghouls. This is a book series I‘ll continue and have recommended to my students!

With all the hoopla about the 20th anniversary of Harry Potter this week, my son and I were talking about some of the books I found for him to read in between the HP books when he was growing up. This one is the first of a series that we both grew to love and anticipated new entries as eagerly as we did HP. If you have not read the Last Apprentice series, do it. You'll be glad you did!

Surprisingly scary for a kids book. Recommended for the junior readers in your life who like a good fright. ☠️😱👻

I picked this book up to be my New Year's Eve read and powered right through it! It is a 9-12 yr old novel. I found it a very satisfying read as an adult. I liked the dark feel of the story, it definitely had some creepy, creepy moments, it has excellent character building and moved at a fast pace. I enjoyed the main character, Tom, despite his questionable choices, and I want to see more of Alice. I will pursue the next book in this series!

This one is up next. I decided another kids book would be perfect - I love dark fantasy, but don't have the headspace for intricate world building right now. I've heard great things about this series, so I am hoping to enjoy it 😊

I liked it 3.5 stars. I got it free from B&N readouts. I have to admit it was scary at times but I pushed through it and really enjoyed the character build up. It's part of a series so of course there are a lot of unanswered situations at the end of the book.

For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now his time is coming to an end. But who will take over for him? Twenty-nine apprentices have tried–some floundered, some fled, some failed to stay alive.
Only Thomas Ward is left. He's the last hope; the last apprentice.

🌟🌟🌟3/5. I loved this series so much when I was a kid, never managed to complete the series, wouldn't read it now at 19 yrs old.

I really enjoyed this book! It's actually pretty scary! I was a bit disappointed with the very very young age of the MC tho. The character was fine, just SOOO young. That's the main reason I haven't continued the series, tho I'd like to finish it at some point.