Beast Quest - Mortaxe The Skeleton Warrior #12 By Adam Blade

Genre: Adventure:

An Explosion has gone off at King Hugo’s palace, so Elenna and Tom have to go to the Gallery of Tombs where all the great beast hunters are buried to find out what the problem is. Elenna is an archer and Tom’s fateful friend, and Tom is just a mischief and brave kid who fights beasts / monsters to protect the kingdom. While the two follow the good wizard Aduro to the Gallery, they bump into Malvel’s Apprentice Petra who has been trained in all the dark spells and enchantments to fight Tom. Petra has risen Mortaxe from the grave to fight for Malvel and control Avantia. Now Tom has to figure a way to defeat the skeleton warrior who is said to be invincible, and by the looks of it, it must be true. But Aduro gives them a map to follow Mortaxe, but the two kindly souls end up being trapped by Avantia’s six good beasts. Tom and Elenna have to fight the beasts in the coliseum which has corrupted Elenna’s mind as well as the beasts. Tom is all alone and it’s up to him to fight the beasts and his friend.The fate of the kingdom is in Tom’s hands. Will Tom figure out how to kill Mortaxe and free all his friends from Petra’s control? Or is Mortaxe really just an unbeatable monster?

I quite enjoyed how Tom had to fight Mortaxe because he’s indestructible warrior who has only one weakness and used to be human, until an evil sorcerer cursed him to transform into a skeleton warrior when dead.

I didn’t like that the only scenes where the palace and a huge arena / coliseum that ended up being destroyed.

I would rate this book a 3 / 5 just because it wasn’t that interesting.