The Dark Assassin

Over the course of this series and the one before that (with most of the same characters), I have grown fond of Tom Ward, Grimalkin and Alice and this being the last book of their story makes it a little bittersweet. The story was satisfying and engaging and the characters developed even further, so......more

Just as with the last book in his The Last Apprentice series, Delaney demonstrates his inability to deftly end a series. Basically, with John Gregory gone, there are three main characters left: Tom Ward, Alice, and Grimalkin, the witch assassin. For the most part, this book goes back and forth betwe......more

I found this book to be disappointing. In more ways than one. Tom Ward contribute and even his performance as a Spook left me with a feeling that like John Gregory many times feared, Tom was simply not ready. Not only do the most important events happen without Tom even being aware of them, but his wh......more

What a huge disappointment. The plot was bad but the end was even worse. Do not end series like that. Never.......more

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......more