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Thomas Ward’s story is told over a series of 13 books and while The Spook’s Revenge technically ended The Last Apprentice, the story continues into Joseph Delaney’s other works, within which he continues to explore Thomas Ward’s character, now a full blown spook. The country, an important setting in the Last Apprentice series, is based on Lancashire, a location in Northern England, with numerous other modern cities such as Preston and Blackpool reincarnating in Joseph Delaney’s story at one point or another. While initially focusing upon the characters of John and Thomas, the Wardstone chronicles/Last Apprentice series eventually begins to explore the personalities, histories and purposes of its wider cast, this including the witch Alice Deane, the story eventually progressing towards the cross road of Thomas’ destiny as either the destroyer or the savior. Learning to tame and contend against ghosts, boggarts, witches and the numerous other fiends that serve ‘The Dark’, Thomas’ journey isn’t without its fair share of problems, the young spook in training learning of the many apprentices that Gregory had recruited before him, all of whom had died at various stages of their training.

To find his destiny, Thomas will have to apprentice under John with the aim of eventually becoming a spook, a warrior with great skill and physical strength trained to fight those supernatural forces that seek to slaughter innocent lives. The seventh Son of a seventh son, Thomas is recruited by John Gregory, a master warrior, to fight the forces of evil. The Wardstone Chronicles/Last Apprentice series revolves around Thomas Ward. Published by Random House Publishing, the novels chronicle a young boy’s efforts to master his skills as he prepares to inherit the mantle of spook and take his place as a destroyer of evil. The Wardstone Chronicles/Last Apprentice is a series of dark fantasy novels from Joseph Delaney, a British Author.

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