The Last Apprentice - Book 5 - Wrath of the Bloodeye

In this book, Tom Ward is a survivor. He has faced off against everything from boggarts to witches, but in this book he has to face one of the deadliest challenges of all - a water witch named Bloodeye. In case you didn't know, a water witch is a witch that relies on blood magic. You can find references to blood magic in the journal of Thomas J. Ward, which is in the back of every book. Blood magic is dark magic. It is when witches kill a baby child or men and drink their blood and it makes their magic stronger. Army people are roaming the country making people join the army, and one of them almost manages to get Tom to join, but he makes them go away by swinging his staff at them. But when he gets to the Spook's house, he gets shocking news - Tom is going to another Spook's house to train for six weeks. When he gets there, he is shocked to find out that it is very small, has a stream in front of it, and is haunted. His Spook master's house is rather big, doesn't have a moat and isn't haunted. The other Spook is also very violent to witches and is a hard drinker. He had two hounds called Claw and Tooth, but Tooth was killed by Bloodeye on Tom's first swimming test, which was when Tom had to swim across a marsh. Then Tom and the other Spook go to a hermit's cave to track down the Bloodeye by asking the hermit to dowse her out, but then the other Spook gets caught by the Bloodeye, and Tom has to ask the first Spook to come and help him. They go to the hermit's cave again and ask him to dowse again, and they find him, but they also find the witch assassain Grimlicken. The good news is that Grimliken is on their side, and helps them defeat some water witches (who were with the Bloodeye), but the bad news is that the Fiend came back with the Bloodeye. At the end of the story, the battle between Tom and the water witches (including the Bloodeye) is finished. Tom has won, but Alice is being sent away because she was in contact with Grimlicken. The Spook thinks Alice is bad, but Tom is utterly convinced that she is good because they are friends.

I give this book a twenty out of twenty - I liked it even more than the last one. My favorite part was the battle on the Marsh, which is in chapter XXVIII (which is chapter 28).