'I found myself sneaking a peak at the pages whenever anyone stopped talking, I was so hooked'
This book was scary, sad, and completely different; I would love to read all of the Spooks series.
Alice is from a long generation of witches, all as equally terrifying as the last and this book tells the story of her journey through bone-trembling worlds and encounters with frightening characters whose actions are far from imaginable and very horrific.
Alice's adventures unfold on a quest for a dagger needed in a ceremony that will kill her but, however painful the death will be, she knows that it is to destroy the Fiend, a dark made flesh, the most powerful of all and the very oldest of the old gods. If they fail, the world will be enveloped by despair and darkness; if she succeeds it means falling into to the awaiting clutches of death slowly and painfully at the hands of her dearest friend.
Alice must travel to find Pan, an old god that can open up the dark worlds deep in the earth's crust that conceal the dead as the final weapon - the Dolorous Dagger, sometimes called the Blade of Sorrow - must be retrieved. This weapon is used to cut the heart out of the victim (Alice) and, still beating, cast into the flames. This ritual will once and for all destroy the fiend.
As she successfully finds Pan and bargains her way into the Dark she meets Thorne, a girl Grimalkin had trained as a witch assassin. Thorne was not in the dark for the same reason as Alice though, she had been slain by the servants of the Fiend on the edge of Witch Dell. They sliced off her thumbs while she was still alive and the shock and blood loss had killed her, casting her away into the land of the dead forever. Thorne leads Alice through the worlds of the dark looking for magic portals and keeping away unwanted animals; they battle with past enemies and creatures serving the fiend until at last they find what they seek but everything is not what it at first seemed?
This book was very hard to put down and I found myself sneaking a peak at the pages whenever anyone stopped talking, I was so hooked. A great and interesting book. I love Alice as she was prepared to die for what she believed in to protect the world and the people she loved.
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