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Micheal Scott has created a fast action story using world myth's and legends and made a fun read. Scott started with the central character Nicholas Flamel -whom, I have explained both to my children and many others, was a real person and not a character from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone- and written a great series. The Sorceress is the third book of the series and is as fast paced as the other three each book covering the action of just a couple days.

As a parent I loved the way it pushed my children into doing some academic research to find out about the "real" lives of Flamel, John Dee, Machiavelli and more. They also learned about many of the mythical characters. I may have enjoyed the first two books a bit more but I loved the ending of this book and how it sets up the story for the fourth book coming out this May. This is a great read.The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel


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The Sorceress The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Michael Scott Books Reviews

If one has read the first two books of this planned hexad, one can already surmise what is in this third book. If one has not read the first two, then he has come to THE SORCERESS prematurely and should go at once to THE ALCHEMYST followed by THE MAGICIAN, only then coming to THE SORCERESS. None is really a complete stand-alone book. Think of each instead as chapters in a single very large story--and one that is not finished even after this third volume. Scott, perhaps inspired by Rowling's Harry Potter books, has announced his intention of writing a total of six books in this "Nicholas Flamel" series, so THE SORCERESS should mark the halfway point in the saga. Thus far, both the second and the third book have built upon the preceding volume, and the reader will enjoy (and understand) each much more clearly if he has read the preceding work, so, by all means, read the books in the intended order!

In this third book, Scott continues with the same story line, with immortal humans, pre-humans (Dark Elders, Archons, Second Generation), and, of course, the hero and heroine, two teen-age "regular" human twins endowed with magical powers, all locked in battle for the future of the earth. Machiavelli and Dr. John Dee continue their nefarious schemes to capture our magical teenagers and continue to be thwarted in their attempts. In fact, the reader begins to wonder just how patient (or how impotent) their Dark Elder masters are to permit these two supposedly powerful but bumbling henchmen to continue their constantly failing efforts to apprehend the teenagers.

Scott does include some really nifty characters in this book. I especially like Aerop-Enap (Old Spider), Gilgamesh and Palamedes. On the other hand, making William Shakespeare an immortal who appears in mechanic's overalls doesn't seem to work very well. And throwing in William Bonney ("Billy the Kid") as another immortal living in San Francisco is really over the top. Heretofore, Scott's characters have all been either from myth and legend or from the mists of little-known history, making them much easier to accept as other-than-normal beings. Shakespeare and Bonney, on the other hand, are well-studied, widely-known historical persons, and resurrecting them as immortals living in modern times puts a real strain on the reader's credulity. Scott would have done better to have continued to seek his characters in ancient legends.

The book also shows some flaws that suggest haste in its writing and a lack of competent proofreading. There are not many of these flaws, but there are certainly more than in the preceding two books. Once (page 332) Dr. John Dee is described as becoming nauseous as he retrieves the sword Excalibur from the noxious sludge into which it had fallen. Now, "nauseous" describes something or someone that is sickening, that is, something that causes nausea in others. It is not synonymous with "nauseated," which is the word called for in this context. It is astounding that any competent author would confuse words with two utterly different meanings such as Scott has done here. But there's more

Later (page 424), referring to a photograph, Machiavelli says, "It served it's purpose." This sentence is pure nonsense, for it is saying "It served it is purpose." The contraction "it's" is a combination of the pronoun "it" and the verb "is." What Scott should have used, of course, is the possessive pronoun "its" with no apostrophe. The two forms are totally different and have no similarity at all beyond their superficial spellings. This might be passed off as an anomaly except that it recurs on page 443 when Nicholas, reclining in the sun, lets "it's warmth embrace him." Again, the possessive pronoun "its" and the contraction "it is" are in no way synonymous and one cannot be substituted for the other! Has Scott's publisher hired a new (and inferior) proofreader?

One last quibble. At one point, emphasizing his fatigue, Josh is said to have encountered the cat-headed goddess. Perhaps I missed something, but I believe that Bastet never left her car and that only Dr. John Dee had the pleasure of her proximity. I cannot recall that Josh ever encountered her at all. Hasty writing?

The story continues apace. As in the previous books, the action is left incomplete to entice the reader to continue with the next book in the series (when it's published). In this case, we are left with Alcatraz full of monsters, Joan of Arc and Scathach the vegetarian vampire trapped a million years in the past, and Nicholas and Perenelle rapidly aging. Am I going to buy the next volume, which will be entitled THE NECROMANCER, to find out what happens next? You bet I am! However, I sincerely hope that it will not continue this disturbing new trend of grammatical errors and malapropisms, not to mention the fictionalizing of well-known historical figures. It is precisely such blatant errors in the text and the ineffective use of characters such as Shakespeare and Bonney that have earned THE SORCERESS no more than three stars.
Great book and continues the saga. Mixing myth and fables with famous supposedly dead figures from history's pass. Definetly a must read series
Just for perspective, I'm a twenty-year-old college student who loves reading and fantasy in particular. This is another solid novel from Mr. Scott, but I wasn't completely bound to it like I was with the first two. The story is settling a bit, with Perenelle in one spot for most of the book and Flamel and the twins not on as many exciting rampages. I still ran into lots of legends I'd never heard of and got to look up, and others I knew about and appreciated a fresh take on, and that's part of the charm of this series. It's a good book, worth buying, but it felt a little like a tie-in for what comes next - I'm ready to see Sophie and Josh start taking charge.
the adventure continues with the sorceress book 3 of the nicholas flammel series.
if you loved books one and two the alchemyst and the magician you will still be drawn into the continuing saga . it is very well written and he quickly draws you into the story of nicolas flammels adventures with the twins of legend soffee and josh. i loved it, i can't wait til the necromancer gets released in may of this year!!! i love these books so much i asked the author if he was going to make movies out of them the way he writes he makes you feel like youre experiencing it right along with the charcters in the book. and michael scott did say that the first steps to making his books into movies is starting .... if you love magic, and wizardry and things like that you love these books.
INCREDIBLE series of books!!! This one like the rest of the serie is incredible!!! The characters are amazing!! and very complex. LOTS of suspense!!!! Extremely interesting and incredibly hard to put down!!!!
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The is one of the Nicholas Flamel books from the series of the same name (except add "The Secret of the Immortal" to the front of "Nicholas Flamel"). This is an excellent series of books that are fairly easy reads.

The series character was actually a fairly popular historical figure who, according to wikipedia, "was a successful French scrivener and manuscript-seller who developed a posthumous reputation as an alchemist due to his reputed work on the philosopher's stone." His cult status was emphasized in the Harry Potter series, who's first book was titled after the famous stone.

NOTE This book series is not related to the Harry Potter "universe" or series.
Micheal Scott has created a fast action story using world myth's and legends and made a fun read. Scott started with the central character Nicholas Flamel -whom, I have explained both to my children and many others, was a real person and not a character from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone- and written a great series. The Sorceress is the third book of the series and is as fast paced as the other three each book covering the action of just a couple days.

As a parent I loved the way it pushed my children into doing some academic research to find out about the "real" lives of Flamel, John Dee, Machiavelli and more. They also learned about many of the mythical characters. I may have enjoyed the first two books a bit more but I loved the ending of this book and how it sets up the story for the fourth book coming out this May. This is a great read.The Alchemyst The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel