487 pages
"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 and the Spook has been trying to hide from the world are revealed?" -Book Jacket
*SMALL SPOILER ALERT*
This book had the scariest (tween-appropriate) scenes yet. Anglezarke is a scary place and the author did a great job bringing its dreariness to life. The witches in the basement were the best. I love when Bessy Hill crawls up the stairs. The "unexpected visitor" provides a human villain to go along with the supernatural ones in this third installment. My favorite part of this series so far, however, has been Tom's mom. The mysteries surrounding who/what she really is and what she's capable of are fed to the reader in bits and pieces. She leaves in the end of this book so I'm hoping she comes back someday. In the mean time, I can't wait for Tom to go back to his house and explore the locked chests in her room.
I read a lot of teen/young adult fantasy because a) fantasy is my oldest daughter's favorite genre and it's great to be able to recommend (and screen) books for her and share her excitement over good storytelling and b) they're clean--you don't find bad language or other objectionable material in them for the most part. I'm taking a break from this series for a couple of weeks while I wait to order the next two with the 4th Mortal Instruments book being released April 5th. Gotta love that free shipping over $25!
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