Rise of the Huntress

This series doesn't disappoint. Here we are with the seventh book in the series and the stories keep getting better. They are chock-full of scary Spook business, dangerous opponents, narrow escapes, and surprising developments. I started reading this series aloud to Luke at the beginning of the year. But I was only about 50 pages into this one when he demanded to be able to read it on his own. (He didn't want to wait the glacial pace it would take to have to wait for me to read it. Besides, it's too scary for his younger sister – creeps out his mother a bit too!). Luke polished this off in a matter of days and wanted to tell me all about it. I wasn't having that! I wanted to read this fresh myself! I really like this series. We'll wait for book #8 to come out in paperback before continuing. One of the things that makes this series so good is that the main characters are so interesting. Young Tom Ward is the apprentice; the Spook, his master, is crusty old John Gregory; and his good friend Alice is the daughter of a witch (Gregory doesn't trust her but she proves her worth time and again.) And the villains are equally varied, from the various beasts, abhumans, boggarts, and numerous witches of every stripe. Great stories.