The fifth book in the Wardstone Chronicles series delivers just as much as its predecessors, with magic, mayhem and horror at every turn. Once again I was captured by the book and couldn’t put it down, finishing a 450 page book in just a few sittings and loving it all.
The story was different because of the teachings, Bill Arkwright is completely different from Toms master and I liked that this book gives you an idea of how different each spook can be, even if ‘normal’ people view them as all alike. There were other demons introduced and I don’t just mean the water witches by that, these demons were more human and can be present in our everyday lives, not just in fiction.
There’s something about this series that really grips me. I think it is because it takes me back to my pre-teen years when I frequented myself with the Cirque Du Freak books by Darren Shan and Goosebumps. There ius nothing I used to love more than reading scary books late at night when I should have been reading and this book gives me that feeling back.
I would honestly recommend this series to any youngster who loves a good scary story. The things encountered are not that scary because no matter how much danger there is, its quite obvious that good will always defeat evil. I like the ongoing storyline between Alice and Tom too and even though I worked out one of the ‘reveals’ in this book very early on I still enjoyed the characters finding out about it and I doubt I would have picked it up as a younger reader.
The Spook’s Mistake is the fifth book in the Wardstone Chronicles series, and was published by Red Fox, a Random House imprint, in 2009. My copy was sent from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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Bungle
I really do love this series!!
I’m not sure how I feel about the film after seeing the trailer! I won’t lie, it upset me a little!