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# The Last Apprentice: Lure of the Dead (Book 10) (Last Apprentice, 10) Paperback – Illustrated, September 3, 2013

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## Customer Reviews

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    Lure of the Dead
  

*by P***I on Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2015*

just finished book 10 of 13 in The Last Apprentice saga. Joseph Delaney has quickly become one of my favorite authors. While the last book focused on Grimalkin, this book brings back Tom Ward and the Spook.The young apprentice faces some of his most dangerous challenges in this chapter. Each lesson learned is life threatening. Each lesson brings him closer to becoming a spook. The only way to kill the Fiend once and for all will require the acquiring of three Hero Swords. While Tom has two, the third is hidden under the Fiend's throne, deep in the Fiend's lair. Retrieving the magical weapon will not be easy! And the sacrifices that must be made have Tom Ward doubting his ability to carry out the necessary acts!Before the third Hero Sword could be retrieved, a former apprentice, Judd Brinscall knows a woman with a Spook library -- looking to sell books. Since the Spook's house was destroyed, his library decimated, the acquiring of books is essential.The dark servants of the Fiend are still after Tom Ward, and the Grimalkin. The Grimalkin carries around the Fiend's head in a sack. The servants want to reunite the head with the body so that the Fiend could rise and restore evil and darkness to the world.In the meantime, the dark servants are summoning the Siscoi --the greatest of the Old Gods of Romania, a Vampire God. The Siscoi is the Fiend's right hand, and could help capture and kill Tom Ward.Endless treachery and desperate battles ensue. Alice, Tom, Judd, the Grimalkin and the Spook have their hands full. There are dark surprises that fill every single chapter. The book was impossible to put down.It is hard to believe that I have ONLY 3 books left to read in the series.Phillip TomassoAuthor of Damn the Dead and Vaccination

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    Great Series...but not the strongest installment
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2014*

Our entire family really enjoys The Last Apprentice and we read these books out loud.  We enjoy the plots, the characters, and the language of the series, which has such a lovely northern England regional flavor.  (E.g., the Spook calling the boy "lad."  My 11-year-old daughter also loves the word "widdershins," and looked up the origins of the word "lamia.")  Joseph Delaney is a great writer.That said, Lure of the Dead (Book 10) is not the strongest volume in the series.  In it, the Spook and Tom are lured to Todmorden to look at some books that might be able to help replenish the Spook's now depleted library, as his house was burned to the ground and had to be rebuilt and re-stocked.  Despite the fact that the town's name is in essence "Death-death-en" (German and French words for death), AND that Judd Brinscall, the Spook's ex-apprentice who leads them to Mistress Fresque's house, suspiciously claims he has some other urgent business and thus cannot accompany them the last part of the way, they blithely stumble onward.  Up until this volume, the Spook and Tom Ward have gotten themselves into some pretty dire predicaments, but they never seemed stupid or naive.  This was a total "babysitter going into the basement to investigate that suspicious noise" kind of moment.  Predictably, many BAD THINGS happen to the two of them in this installment.  While this book is a suspenseful page turner, it's a bit of a head scratcher why the two main characters behave in ways that do not seem thoroughly in keeping with their intelligence and personality as established in Books 1-9.  Still, the series as a whole remains interesting, and Tom faces some very difficult choices with Alice in the near future which are outlined by his mother (in a cameo from beyond the grave) in this volume, as well as an increasing awareness that his time as an apprentice is drawing to a close and that he will soon need to take over for an aging John Gregory.

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    A great book
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2015*

Once again Joseph Delaney takes the reader into the world of the County, the Dark and Tom Ward.  Captured from the very beginning with a fresh look at old monsters including a different take on the vampire this book does not disappoint.  Tom Ward is becoming not only the Spook of the County but the only person to take on the greatest of all evil, the very dark itself.  He must find a way to destroy the Dark without destroying himself and the ones he loves especially his long time friend Alice.  The action is strong, the story is scary and the book has you feeling a dozen eyes on you within the deep basement of an old house.  It's hard to put this book down and once you start you won't.  Also it was nice to see the return of a certain ginger cat that is of course not really a ginger cat.

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