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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780060766245
ISBN number: 0060766247
Label: Greenwillow
Manufacturer: Greenwillow
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 512
Printing Date: September 01, 2007
Publishing house: Greenwillow
Age index: Ages 9-12
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Sale Popularity Level: 206713
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It's going to be a long, hard, cruel winter. And there couldn't be a worse place to spend it than up on Anglezarke.
Thomas Ward is the apprentice for the local Spook, who captures witches and drives away ghosts. As the weather gets colder and the nights draw in, the Spook receives an unexpected visitor. Tom doesn't know who the stranger is or what he wants, but the Spook suddenly decides it's time to travel to his winter house, Anglezarke. Tom has heard it will be a bleak, forbidding place, and that menacing creatures are starting to stir somewhere on the moors nearby.
Can anything prepare Tom for what he finds there? What if the rumors about the evil beast called the Golgoth are true? And how much danger will Tom be in if the secrets the Spook has been trying to hide from the world are revealed?
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The Thomas Ward Series is well written but not a good choice if you're looking for a few laughs. Everything tends to be pretty dark in these books although they are enjoyable.
Tom, apprentice to the aged and crabby John Gregory, or The Spook as Tom calls him, is charged with rounding up and neutralizing ghasts, ghosts, witches and other monsters that pester the good people of the County. The Spook's standard method for dealing with witches is to seal them in a pit where they exist on worms and bugs for decades at a time. (Wouldn't killing them be kinder? I'm just asking although yes, the plots do thicken when the witches escape and start looking for people to chow down on.)
"The Soul Stealer" features two such witches, sisters, that bring no end of grief to Tom and his master especially since The Spook is in love with one of them: Meg who easily walks through the iron cellar door designed to stop all other evil things. Delaney never explains how she does this but that's just quibbling.
This is an intriguing series and well worth reading for anyone who likes their fairy tales Grim.
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Thomas Ward has been the Spook's apprentice for several months now. When the winter starts to roll in, the spook decides it is time to leave his home in Chipenden, to go to his house in Angelazarke. Thomas is forced to leave Alice, a young witch friend, behind in a town on the way to Angelazarke.
The Spook hides many things about his past, Thomas at one point read a personal diary of the Spook's which revealed he was and is in love with a domestic lamia witch, and Thomas gets the pleasure of meeting her in Angelazarke. Yet more secrets come out when Thomas leans about a trouble maker in a town near Angelazarke, a failed apprentice of the Spook's, named Morgan. Morgan, who practices necromancy, wants to raise an ancient and forgotten god of winter, Golgoth. If Golgoth is raised, then the entire county or maybe even more will fall under an eternal winter.
Morgan attacks Tom's recently deceased father, who is in limbo, and tortures him, so Tom will do Morgan's bidding. When the Spook catches Tom attempting to steal an ancient book with the summoning ritual for Golgoth, Tom's actions are stopped. Eventually Morgan captures Tom again and he steals the ritual book. As Morgan begins the ritual in an underground crypt Thomas ponders how he could escape, realizing that he can't. Unannounced to Morgan and Thomas, however, the Spook destroyed to original book and had it remade, with an extremely minute change but important change; he replaced a word in Latin with another. Now, instead of summoning Golgoth outside of a protective ritual circle, Morgan summons Golgoth inside the circle, which ends in Morgan's demise. Now Thomas is sure he is doomed, as the tunnel has collapsed, but soon he finds Meg, the Lamia witch and her feral sister coming to his rescue. With Morgan dead and Golgoth never to be summoned again, the worries of winter are over.
The Spook and Meg have come to an agreement; Meg and her sister are going back to their homeland via ship. This is the wisest choice because up until now the Spook has been feeding Meg some special herb drinks, making her forget who she truly is and what she can do. For the remainder of the winter the Spook and Thomas will continue battling evil on the Angelazarke side of the county.
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The spook's last apprentice Tom Ward meets an old failed apprentice of the spook. Unfortunately the failed apprentice has turned to necromancy and is trying to revive an old evil god GOLGOTH. The failed apprentice blackmails Tom by torturing his father's soul and Tom feels helpless until he stands up to Golgoth himself. The feeling of a child's helplessness and the lives people led in pre-modern days come through very strongly. There is somewhat of a slower pace in this book than the others but the fear that Tom feels comes through very strongly. Tom lives in a much harsher world than Harry Potter and he has no wand or broomstick, only his wits ,speed and help from friends help him survive. We learn more of Tom's master the spook in this book and of Tom's mother but it is with a new understanding that soon they will be gone and Tom will be on his own.
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i relly liked this book i thought it was very Creative i thought that it was scary i though that the Idea of a Monster huter was gerat, but there were some holes in the story and i thought that was a lack of an overall story though out the series and a lack of character development. and i think that the idea of a monster huter and some of the other ideas that Joseph Delaney has come up with are better ideas then he is a writer, so i think that if J.R.R.Tolkien had the some ideas that Joseph Delaney had his book would have been much better becaues j.r.r Tolkien was a much better writer then Joseph Delaney. so i would definetly say to buy this book.
joshua.
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I have had the opportunity to purchase the entire collection so far for my two daughters. I have come to notice I highly anticipate the release of the newest addition to this series. This is an excellent series to get a resistant child to read. My eight year old is not fond of reading but once I began reading the very first book to her I noticed she wanted to continue the story on her own. Delaney has a way of making the reading fairly easy and not too scary for the smaller ones who have outgrown The Spiderwick Series. Not only has my 8 year old read the books I have read them all and can't wait for the subsequent release. So far Delaney earns five stars for all four books. We recently received the newest release (book four) four days ago and have completed it in just a few days. We are eagerly anticipating book five.
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