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Assassin is just as wonderful as all the other Spooks tales, The excellent writing that draws you in and doesn't free you from its grasp until you have finished its last page, The dark assassin brings to light new possibilities for the young spook and his allies and leaves you wondering what uses

these could bring, There is one thing that does pain me about this installment and that is the end, The end of the dark assassin is left with a cliff hanger that has already begun to tear away at my soul casting it into the dark in knowing that it could beyears before The Spooks returns.
Painful ending or not this installment was just as enjoyable as the previous ones and can't wait for what Joseph Delaney has ins store for us next, I recommend this book to anyone who dares to read after dark! I have mixed feelings about this, certainly I never imagined that this will happen to Tom, I mean it IS unexpected twist but i don't know if it was a good one, one thing for sure Old Gregory won't like this at alllllll.


things I liked about this novel
Grimalkin is back, she did NOT deserve how she was killed off in the previous book, she is too cool to die.

the ending ,the closure was sweet , for Tom to find Alice back, I was so sad for Tom, I didn't want him to turn into a lonely spook.


things I don't approve of in this one:
Jeeny's death am truly upset about that, she was lovely though I was annoyed by her at first and her death was too simple and a little dull.
. . I don't know how, but so far each death was for a purpose, Tom and Grimalkin did return from their death, and I was waiting for Jenny's, or is she playing the vital role o toughening Tom up "shrug" I didn't like it.


Tom's last torture scene, it made me wince not for the torture itself , but I hated to see Tom humiliated like that ,and for him to be a Lamia in the end, well.
. . glad he survived but not sure if it is a good thing or a bad thing

the Talkus death was really fast, well planned but rushed in the last scene, it was building up slowly and tumbled all at once, hmmmmm

I still cant digest that this is the last thing am going to read for Tomas Ward , it is been years , and even I enjoyed every single book of this world.


but maybe another chronicle will begin especially with this last shocking surprise, or even one more conclusive book, . anything ,to many things left unanswered,and Tom still has a lot to learn about and see, . . That ending was more like a cliffhanger lol, I'm guessing new series
Also, I did not expect that to happen to Jenny, I mean I didn't really like her but come on, I was kind of expecting the series to end all dark and gloom, Which is where it was headed then it had that cliffhanger ending The end, Wait What That could not possibly be the last page,

What a disappointment, The story felt rushed, each unfolding minicrisis resolved within a few pages or even a few sentences, Well known characters died and disappeared like popped party balloons while others who should have been front and center faded to the background, The story rushed on threads spinning off into the dark and left unresolved, Then something major about Tom is revealed and oh, by the way THE END,

I admit I flipped back and forth on my Kindle a few times thinking that surely I had missed a chapter but, . . no. That was it. How does it really all end Apparently, I will never know, Farewell Tom Ward , hunter of the dark, The third chilling installment in the new Spook's legend, . . An assassin lurks in the darkness between earth and oblivion but who are they, and what is their mission The people of the County live in fear of the beasts bent on bringing the war to their home.
How can they possibly hope to survive when their fearsome enemies are fortified with the power of a god Could the creature that moves in the darkness be the savior the County seeks When I was a kid the first book that opened me up to the wonders of reading was the Spook's Apprentice.
It's been overyears since that first book and now I finally say goodbye to the Spook's world, I loved this book. I do feel like some characters could have been developed further and stories could have been progressed but I have no complaints about the overall quality of this book.
It's hard to say goodbye but I am grateful I got to experience Tom's journey from the very beginning, This is a sort of conclusion to the whole dramatic arc of the two Spook series, and while I read to the end of it, and always take pleasure in the plainspoken beauty of Delaney's language which I associate with Hardy and John Clare, I found it a very anticlimactic climax, having expected much more from the final battle with the monstrous creatures of the North.
As climactic books go, I think the volume in the first series in which Tom Ward and his allies did battle against the devil in Greece was absolutely perfect and although I loved the whole idea of the conflict with the creatures of the north, and thought Slither as well as every part of the story told from Grimalkin's point of view wonderful and really novel, I think the execution fell short in this final volume of the second series.
I love the Spook's series! Read in one go, Even though I didn't like the whole Kobalos stuff at all, it was great reading more from Grimalkin and the domains of the dark! I certainly never grow tired of this series Powiem tyle: nie spodziewałam się tego zakończenia Rating.
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The conclusion of the Starblade Chronicles, This series was not as good as the Spooks apprentice, This series spent a lot more time dealing with war than the dark in my opinion, It still was very interesting to read and I still like the characters, Delaney does a good but not great job in telling the story, It always seems like there is either a lot of build up for a confrontation which is not very satisfying, or there is very little buildup to something that seems hugely important.
I never really got into the Kobalos story line, and preferred it when the enemy was the Dark, Tom did end up using more of his special powers in this story, Not just the ones he gets from being the seventh son of a seventh son, but also the powers he got from his mam, the lamina, I felt those powers were neglected a little in the firstbooks of the series, Overall a quick enjoyable read, to come. Okay, Delaney . you redeemed yourself. I'm no longer breaking up with you for killing off my favorite characters,
I have mitigated feelings about this book and the whole Starblade Chronicles, I enjoyed reading it, it was a nice read, but a lot of things put me out of the story, I really, really enjoyed the Wardstone Chronicles, but when I reached the last book, I thought that Delaney had trouble finishing a series,

And this books confirms that thought, He can't wrap up things, There are too many loose ends and plot holes due to magic not having the rules it used to have, In Wardstone Chronicles, we learn a lot about witches and Tom's powers,
Well you can forget about Tom's powers, because they were more like plot devices used in one series and they aren't, apparently, transferable to another series, Power creep is something that can easily ruin a fantasy series, and I think Tom's powers are an example of that, and so are Grimalkin's, I really like the character but I felt like she just became an overpowered ninja,
How can she so easily defeat gods when she was herself defeated by ayears old boy a few years prior It doesn't make sense,
Also, the sword she's forged disappears, Again, I feel like any new "power" or artifact appears and disappears when the author needs it, Everything feels like a Deus Ex Machina, Or Delaney Ex Machina, for instance,
Another exemple is the chill you feel near the dark, I don't know if it's inconsistent, but it feels like it is : Tom doesn't feel that from Grimalkin or Alice, even though they are from the Dark, Maybe because they don't mean harm, I don't know,

In previous books, death was something to be feared, Here, death is just a way to another world from which you can come back, And it felt like Delaney regretted killing Grimalkin, maybe she's his favourite character and mine as well so I'm kinda glad she didn't die and gave her more things to do.
And, besides being a way to another world, death just has no taste, Blood and Bone die. I really liked those dogs, But they just died for nothing, Death has no meaning, no consequences, I feel like they died so the author wouldn't have to write about them anymore,
Now Jenny. Damn it. Jenny had so much potential, I mean, he gave her heterochromia, You can't just give heterochromia to a character and kill her off without even giving her a role in the plot now can you Jenny is Tom's apprentice.
She claims to be a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter, learns Tom's trade and then dies because of a scratch from a water witch, I mean, her death is meaningless, and it doesn't hurt that much, I actually thought that this was a way for us to see that she's a witch, and that we'd see her be reborn in the Dark,
But no. She just died, without ever serving the plot besides being a camera for Tom's death scene, What a waste. I feel like she died so that could surprise the reader, But a good story is not necessarily one that surprises us, This is breaking a contract of trust betweet author and reader, GRRM does it well : when people die, you actually feel things, But Delaney is no GRRM, and Jenny didn't have a role,

There's also Slither's character, He had a whole damn book in the previous series, but appears for a single chapter here, How Why
Same for Lukrasta and Alice, They felt so bland. And the ending too. The death of Talkus was so, . . easy and unrewarding. Same for Lukrasta. And I feel like Alice telling Tom to go back alone to Chipenden ONLY to be there as well was a very bad plot device, The only reason she told him that was for Tom to be attacked so Delaney could show his new powers, The ending is probably the worse part of the book,

Overall, I think the book needs at leastmore pages, and should cut a lot of "the feeling a seventh son of a seventh son gets when something from the Dark approaches".
I think Delaney has faaaar too much repetitions, Even if the books are for young people, you don't need to repeat things constantly, They're not dumb, they know what the chill means, they know why binding a witch's mouth is important, they actually pay attention when they read,

Now writing this, I feel like I can't really find good sides to the story, Still, I enjoyed it, maybe because the world was familiar and I'm still attached to the characters, However, all subjectivity aside, this was not a good book, and especially not a good FINAL book, It's completely anticlimatic. And I think I miss regular but dangerous Spooks business, That's where the previous books shone I think, Absolutely shocking that this is the last book in the series,
Not a fan. Not at all. I could tell the author 'wanted to finish the plot and move on, ' Mainly, it the plotfelt rushed, The details, were written so sloppily, honestly, I'm left with more questions and confusion than answers,
what the heck is Grimalkin gonna do now that the series is "wrapped up!!!" I'm sure that Grimalkin has some epic shit planned on freeing the enslaved females from the Kobalos.
And I wanna read that in more detail, Mr. Delaney!!!!
what the heck is the status on the ship with Talice Tom Ward amp Alice Dean, Are they together Are they mutual partners in defeating the dark Do they eventually settle down together!! Heck, hypothetically, considering what the hell is going on with Tom his mam being the first Lamian witch and all is it possible that if they desire to have offspring.
Yes, I'm gonna use that terminology, 'Children' just doesn't cut it for me it sound too cute for this series, neither one if them arehuman, Anyway, So since Alice is a child of the Fiend, And Tom's mam is What is she Good Bad She's definitely powerful, What is Tom's and Alice's Offspring gonna be Hmm!!! Answer me that!
correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't heard of anything with Tom's five other siblings.
The ones after Jack. Does that mean Tom's brothers also have the same powers as Tom
what the even heck with Jenny, She didn't deserve being killed off from something dumb as an ifection, Has anyone considered that the tulpa in charge of her may have purposely sped up her death!!!
Tom's future apprentices, Whom are they Is the future of their civilzation, as with any semihistorical plot, progress to where we are now, with all of these gizmos and eventuallty the world won't need spooks anymore!!!!!
ARGH!!!!!! I'm about ready to eat the rest of the carton of ice cream in the house with ANGER in my soul!!!!.