In this book, the Spook gets a letter from a man in red cloak who looks a lot like spook. Then the Spook suddenly goes to his winter house with Tom and they meet a new character - Meg - a shapeshifting lamia-witch. In the first job, they face off against a stone chucker, a kind of boggart which throws stones from pebbles to boulders the size of a house (or at least the size of a head). Their second job is far more serious. They face off against a former apprentice of the Spook - Morgan the Necromancer. The Spook is seriously injured and Meg forgets to drink the potion that keeps her from attacking people. Then Morgan comes into the house and steals the grimoire, which is a book of magic, and he attempts to summon Golagoth the old lord of winter. However, he needs an apprentice to do it, and he asks Tom to become his apprentice. Tom says yes, but only to buy time until Alice could find them. Morgan takes Tom to the round loaf, which is a sacrificial hill, and makes Tom dig to the sacrificial chamber where he plans to summon the old lord himself. However, he makes a mistake with the pentacle and is shattered into a million tiny fragments of person and ice. Tom survives, but the Spook is still seriously hurt and he knows his time is coming close.
What I liked about this book was what the necromancer's robe looked like and the shape shifting witch. What i didn't like about this book was the feral shape shifting witch (Meg's sister). She was in a pit for 20 years and she was already very vicious before when she was in there, so 20 years would not have improved her behavior. I rate this book nine out of ten.
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