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| Original Title: | The Magician |
| ISBN: | 0385733585 (ISBN13: 9780385733588) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #2 |
| Characters: | Nicholas Flamel, Perenelle Flamel, Josh Newman, Sophie Newman, Sgàthach, the Warrior Maid, Dr. John Dee |
Michael Scott
Hardcover | Pages: 464 pages Rating: 4.1 | 85397 Users | 2882 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #2) |
| Author | : | Michael Scott |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 464 pages |
| Published | : | June 24th 2008 by Delacorte Press |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Magic. Mythology. Adventure. Urban Fantasy |
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Alternative Cover Edition of ISBN 9780552562539 other edition found here After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenelle is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies. Niccolo Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, is working for Dee. He’s after them, and time is running out for Nicholas and Perenelle. For every day spent without the Book of Abraham the Mage, they age one year-their magic becoming weaker and their bodies more frail. For Flamel, the Prophecy is becoming more and more clear. It’s time for Sophie to learn the second elemental magic: Fire Magic. And there’s only one man who can teach it to her: Flamel’s old student, the Comte de Saint-Germain-alchemist, magician, and rock star. Josh and Sophie Newman are the world’s only hope-if they don’t turn on each other first.Rating Of Books The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #2)
Ratings: 4.1 From 85397 Users | 2882 ReviewsWrite-Up Of Books The Magician (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #2)
What a great book! The Magician, the second book in the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, totally rocked my world!Josh, Sophie, Nicholas, and Scatty have used the leygate in Ojai to get to Nicholas' home in Paris, France and escape the evil Dr. John Dee. Sophie has already been Awakened by Hekate and has learned the secrets to the magic of Air. She is now ready to master the next elemental magic: fire. But when they arrive in Paris they don't receive a warm welcome. Dee's partner,The only complaint that I have about the Magician is the same complaint that I had about the Alchemyst - where is the next book?Michael Scott deftly picks up Sophie and Josh's story where the Alchemyst left off. And although it had been over a year since I had read Alchemyst, I was never lost or feeling that I needed to go back and re-read the first book. Mr. Scott did a wonderful job of weaving pieces of book 1 into the Magician.In this story, Sophie and Josh are in Paris with Nicholas Flamel
I am such a sucker for a good story. This one was! A new bad guy, some more gross monsters and two more good guys from history. A neat surprise. Can't wait to hear what happens in the next book!
Okay, well I gave two stars to The Alchemyst which is book one in the series and basically thought that it was a bit childish and I probably would not read book 2. The I saw book 2 has a group rating over 4 and thought "well it can't be that bad". So I read it and it was certainly better than book 1. It still wasn't really good though. The story is okay. The magic is that irritating kind where people can do incredible things but then they have to eat or sleep before they can do anything else.
Book Two suffers from most of the same weaknesses I mentioned in the review for The Alchemyst: the odd sort of dryness to the writing (don't know if that's quite the word I'm looking for, but no other word is really coming to mind) that causes the book to feel rather dull in places, even when it's during a scene with lots of action, and the bad habit of repeating facts that we've already established over and over. First, we need to relisten to all the main points of what occurred in The
So, I look down at all the reviews, and I see all these five stars. WOW.This book started out with TONS of promise, introducing Machiavelli with the Kabuki masks. But then the book progresses.. you start to predict the next thread in the story line. Sophie continues her magical training, and learns fire magic from Saint Germaine, who in turn stole it from Promethius; Saint Germaine is coincidentally married to THE Joan of Arc, the last person to have a silver aura (besides Sophie.) Josh stays
Egads, what a moronic bullturd this book was. I wanted to see whether the sequel might have possessed any redeeming qualities, but didn't meet any on the way. It's as if the author fished out some sleazy Mary Sue fanfiction from of the pits of FF.net, squashed it together with some hideously sodomized bits of world mythology, and went off begging for publishing rights. I don't understand the abundance of 5-star reviews here. Seems like people's tastes have REALLY sunk these days. Plot? I once
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