The Last Apprentice Revenge of The Witch: Book Report

The story begins with Thomas’ dad looking for an apprenticeship for his youngest son. He has lined up a meeting with Old Gregory to take on Thomas. Old Gregory is a Spook, a protector from bogarts, witches, ghasts, and “all manner of wicked beasties.”

Thomas is happy to leave the farm but is a little apprehensive about becoming a Spook. All his life he’s been aware of things moving in the shadows. His oldest brother even jokes about him still sleeping with a candle lit. His mother assures Thomas that this is his destiny. As the seventh son of a seventh son, it will be his job to keep people safe when Old Gregory is no longer able.

So Thomas and the Spook set off on a one-month trial apprenticeship. Before they go too far, Thomas has to pass a test – he has to spend the night alone in a haunted house. It’s creepy, and there is definitely something in the house besides Thomas. But Thomas manages to keep his wits and survives the test, which has a surprising ending.

As his apprenticeship continues, Thomas learns much about bogarts, witches, and girls with pointy shoes. And he has a lot of questions about what happened to the apprentices that came before him. Left alone for a short time, Thomas gets tricked into letting loose the dangerous witch, Old Mother Malkin. But instead of waiting for someone to bail him out of danger, he figures out a way to defeat her on his own. His troubles aren’t over, however. When he heads back home for a brief break, Thomas discovers Old Mother Malkin’s spirit has followed him and he has to protect his family from her evil possession.

The story isn’t graphic, but just creepy enough to make you look over your shoulder or leave the lights on when you’re home alone. I can’t wait to read what adventures Thomas has next. Out of five stars I would give the book a rating of five. I think this book was amazing and would recommend it to everyone I know.

Battle of The Labyrinth Book Review

After reading parts one two and three of the Percy Jackson series I am up to part four, whre the adventure kicks up. The entire story gets extremely exhilarating and makes want to never put the book down.After Percy realizes that is a demi-god his lifde sets course to an entire new level. He is the son of Poseidon and almost everyone's enemy. His old friends Annabeth, Tyson, Grover and Nico are still here. Although,.... Nico is the most popular one in this story out of all. Nico is extremely angry after he found out his sister Bianca is dead after going on a quest with Percy. Nico and Bianca are the children of Hades and unknown to everyone.
The name of the book I am read is called Percy Jackson and the Olympians Battle Of The Labyrinth. The author is Rick Riordan. It is three hundred sixty nine pages long and yet still doesn't have a dull moment to get you bored. The main characters in this part are Annabeth, Grover, Kronos, Nico, Luke and of course Percy Jackson. The setting of the book takes place in America. They travel to several states in the country to do a quest and missions. The entire series and this book itself is about ancient Greek mythology and revolves around the twelve Olympian gods and goddesses as well as their evil and cold hearted father Kronos.
The story begins where Percy starts anew at his new school, Goode High school. from there he is unsurprisingly attacked by two empousa which are the original character from where the vampires come from except scarier. So anyway he is attacked but is helped by a mortal girl that is able to see through the mist and visualize the monsters in front of her perfectly, even better than half bloods. That, is very rare. After that Annabeth catches up to him there and takes him to camp half blood. Everyone at camp and in Mount. Olympus are very stressed about Kronos coming back to laugh but they are still working together. At least a little. When they get back they have a very exciting welcome. As they walk through the swords arena they find a hellhound, but soon realizes that it's a good one and belongs to the new camp activities director Quintus.
This story was told from the perspective of the character Percy Jackson and I think that it's a good idea for that to have happened. I say that because it just sounds right from his point of view. It fits the story and above all the story is almost all about him. I think it sounds good in his perspective because the story is about him and it would sound more interesting if he told it. It'll make the reader feel like he or she is reading an actual diary written by a real person.
A major conflict that takes place in the story is when Percy and his friends have to battle Luke and his crew all by themselves. Camp half blood had only few inmates while Luke's army which was growing stronger as well as in size had over two hundred people. The worst part of it is, is that Kronos was reborn and he himself lead his army to destroy Mount Olympus. Well of course he didn't succeed......yet.
As a result of these issues the story was lead into an entire new point of view. Camp half blood was actually in the lead and was beating Kronos' army badly. Especially with Percy and Annabeth on their team. Percy and the rest of his friends as anyone predicted got out of the labyrinth and were not killed. Well, they can't be killed, they are the main attractions of the book. Kronos' army is getting weaker and doesn't seem so strong now. Surprisingly Kronos' greatest general, Luke is getting ready to betray him. He doesn't like the path he's heading and wants to go back to camp half blood. He also just misses Annabeth and the rest of his pals. He doesn't want to see them get hurt. I could've told that by reading the third book and the beginning of this book.
There wasn't anything left to discover about Percy and his friends since they practically told all their secrets to each other. One of the only things that was very surprising is that Luke is definitely going to change himself back into the good person everyone else knows and loves. Kronos is also beginning to expect that Luke is going to betray him and I predict that he is going to soon organize to kill him. Luckily Percy and Annabeth realizes that and should decide to help him get back. If it wasn't for Annabeth all hope on Luke would've been gone. She had a crush on him and still cared for him up till now.
The climax of the story was when Camp Half Blood is about to go head on towards Kronos' army. In almost every story the climax is where the main characters have a humongous war. This was just another one of those. It was so interesting at this point. I am pretty sure that to just see the climax everyone will be waiting for the movie to come out and hopefully in this movie they will show the amazing climax that they have in the book. One of my favorite parts of this story was when Tyson meets the last Hundred Hander. I find that very interesting because the hundred handers were one of the weapons used against the titans in the war to destroy them. If camp half blood can get this one to fight on their side they might just even the odds of beating Kronos' army. Also the hundred handers are a part of the real Greek myths.
If I could change this book I would change the part where Quintus is the bad person because it's the same in every story. There is always someone close to Percy and in the end they betray him and leave him to fight them off. I think this book could've been different. It would have surprised everyone and make them wonder. Also Percy needs another companion to stay by his side. His friend's list is rapidly decreasing because of the war and the uprising of Kronos. On a scale of one to five stars I would give this book a full five. It deserves it and the other series do to. Few books interest me and this happens to be one of them. I really enjoyed this book and thought it was very interesting and fun to read. I would definitely recommend this book for another person to read. If someone doesn't like reading after reading this book their minds will be sure to change. I hope you enjoyed my book review on Percy Jackson and the Olympians Battle Of The Labyrinth. Also try reading the other parts of the series.