The Last Apprentice: Seventh Son
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Book 1 and Book 2 of the best-selling fantasy adventure series that inspired the forthcoming major motion picture Seventh Son! Read Book 1, Revenge of the Witch, and Book 2, Curse of the Bane, in one volume! A major motion picture phenomenon and an international bestseller, The Last Apprentice will haunt you?and terrify you?and keep you coming back for more.
This volume includes Book 1, Revenge of the Witch, and Book 2, Curse of the Bane, of the Last Apprentice series. Only the Spook has the knowledge and skill to face ghosts, bind witches, and bargain with boggarts. Now he needs an apprentice?Tom Ward, who is the seventh son of a seventh son. Other apprentices have come before. All have failed, or fled, or died. Will Tom learn what they could not? Can he trust anyone, even his one true love? He will find out?and soon, for the dark is getting powerful, and the Spook's time has come. Will Tom survive to carry on his master's battle? Will he be the Last Apprentice?
Soon to be a major motion picture, Seventh Son, starring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes, Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Olivia Williams, Antje Traue, Djimon Hounsou and Julianne Moore as Mother Malkin. The Last Apprentice series is "tantalizingly creepy" (Publishers Weekly), and "anything but tame" (Horn Book). But don't read it after dark!
- A Seventh Son of a Seventh Son: Tom Ward was never supposed to be a hero. But as the seventh son, he can see what others can't?and he's the only one left to answer the Spook's call.
- Master and Apprentice: Training under the grim Spook isn't easy. Other apprentices have died, and Tom must learn to battle the dark before he becomes the next to fail.
- Witches, Ghosts, and Boggarts: The County is filled with things that go bump in the night. Tom must learn to bind powerful witches, bargain with boggarts, and face down the unquiet dead.
- YA Supernatural Horror: This chilling series, which inspired the movie Seventh Son, is perfect for fans of scary stories, dark magic, and fantasy books that you shouldn't read after dark.
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Joseph DELANEY is the author of the internationally best-selling The Last Apprentice series, which is now a major motion picture, Seventh Son. He is a former English teacher who lives in the heart of boggart territory in Lancashire, England. His village has a boggart called the Hall Knocker, which was laid to rest under the step of a house near the church.
